The Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Barau I Jibrin, through his foundation, “the Barau I Jibrin Foundation (BIJF), has opened applications for postgraduate foreign scholarships in Artificial Intelligence, Forensic and Robotics Sciences.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by his special adviser on media and publicity Ismail Mudashir
The statement explains that the aim is to provide assistance to qualified candidates to study in the fields of humanitarian assistance to people, education and empowerment in the country,
Meanwhile the Secretary of the Scholarship Committee of the foundation Dr. Maikudi Lawan, according to the statement says the three fields are being selected to provide specialised skills to the citizens.
He said the scholarship programme was conceived to promote academic excellence and support deserving individuals from the Kano North Senatorial District.
He urged the applicants selected from three programmes: M.Tech. (Information Security & Cyber Forensic),
M.Tech. (Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning) and M.Tech. (Robotics Sciences).
The foundation restricted the scholarship programme to the three fields as part of efforts to contribute towards the country’s technological advancement.
” We are raising the bar and offering postgraduate scholarships in these three specialised fields to provide the needed skills to our youths. On graduation, the beneficiaries will become professionals and experts in these fields, thus contributing to the technological advancement of our country,” he said.
He said the programme was approximately 18 months, adding that the expected year of graduation is 2026.
According to him, the deadline for the submission of the application is July 30, 2024.
It would be recalled that the Deputy President of the Senate had, on December 1, last year, announced his intention to offer postgraduate scholarships to indigent students from Kano North Senatorial District with First Class,
The Deputy.senate president made the pronouncement when he hosted the leadership of the Students Union Government (SUG) of the Bayero University Kano (BUK) at the National Assembly.
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