Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha continued his administration’s policy to ensure that education in the state is accesible to all as he announced a 50 per cent reduction in the tuition fees of non-indigenes in state-owned tertiary institutions yesterday.
The governor said his administration would pay the balance as an extension of its free education programme, disclosed this in Owerri, the state capital, when the leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) and Student Union Governments (SUGs) of tertiary institutions in the state, paid him a courtesy visit at the Government House.
We gather that the gesture is for non-indigenes in Imo State University, Imo State Polytechnic and College of Health Sciences, Amaigbo, whose counterparts of Imo origin are enjoying free education.
Okorocha also used the occassion to restate his administration’s commitment to making education free at all levels.
The governor urged other governors to emulate the gesture as a way of creating opportunities for Nigerian students in other tertiary institutions to enjoy free education.
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