PAP commences distribution of Laptops to final year, PG scholarship, students

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The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has commenced the distribution of laptops to final year and post-graduate students under the federal government scholarship scheme in partnering universities in Nigeria.

PAP has in the first phase of the distribution, given out 64 PAP scholarship students, –  25 students from Nile University and 39 from Baze University.

The total beneficiaries comprise of 60 final year, one doctor of philosophy, and three master’s degree students.

PAP Administrator, Dr.  Dennis Otuaro, at the presentation  at Nile and Baze universities, emphasized that the intervention was in fulfillment of his promise to the scholarship beneficiaries during his tour of partnering institutions in 2024.

He said the office recognised the usefulness of the mobile computing device to the students’ academic success, especially as they prepare to write their final year projects, thesis and dissertations.

Otuaro, who was represented at the different events by PAP’s acting head of administration,  Ebikpolade Zorab,  and Secretary to the PAP boss, Ebimene Jackson,  urged the scholars to make good use of the laptops and justify the objective behind the gesture.

According to him, “You are the first set of PAP scholarship students that are receiving these laptops, and we will also extend this (distribution) to other beneficiaries in other institutions that we are partnering with.

“I advise and encourage you to make good use of it for your academic progress. With these laptops, if you were to make a low grade in your project, we expect that you will score excellent grades because you now have portable computers to enhance your academic endeavours.”

Some of the  beneficiaries from  the laptops distribution include the leaders of PAP scholarship students in the two universities, Eperetun Gboroteiye (Nile) and Pedro Timotubo (Baze), and Oyinlayefa Ogiriki, Mina Ikiba, Friday Dunu and Martha Tuwabere, among others.

They thanked the PAP Administrator, Dr.  Dennis Otuaro, for his humanitarian intervention.