Kano battles with overseas students N3bn unpaid tuition

The Kano State Government is battling to pay over N3bn school fees of its students in foreign universities and 50 female nursing students. State Governor, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje, said this while receiving members of the General Association of Northern Nigerian Students based in Egypt at the Government House on Friday. Ganduje explained that the delay in settling the fees was due to a mix-up in the list of the students. The governor attributed the huge amount of the arrears of school fees to the prevailing unfavourable state of the economy, saying there was a need to handle the unpaid tuition with caution. He assured the students of his continuous support for their studies, adding “that no right thinking person will joke with the education of the populace’’.