Buni to honour teens who won Int’l competition
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has approved a grand ceremony to honour 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullah and 15-year-old Rukayya Muhammad Fema, for emerging World best in English language skills and overall debate competitions respectively at the 2025 TeenEagle Global Finals in London, United Kingdom. Nafisa and Rukayya, both from Yobe state, are students of […]
Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has approved a grand ceremony to honour 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullah and 15-year-old Rukayya Muhammad Fema, for emerging World best in English language skills and overall debate competitions respectively at the 2025 TeenEagle Global Finals in London, United Kingdom.
Nafisa and Rukayya, both from Yobe state, are students of the Nigerian Tulip International College, who represented Nigeria at the World competition to beat other 20,000 participants from 69 countries.
In a statement signed by the Director General Press and Media Affairs to the Governor Mamman Muhammad, Buni said he would host and celebrate the two students.
He said, “Nafisa and Rukayya both beneficiaries of the Gov. Mai Mala Buni’s scholarship programme covering full tuition for 890 students at the Nigeria Tulip International College.
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“Gov. Buni described the outstanding performances as a great honour to the state and country.
“These are great feats that makes us proud and justifies the government’s investment in the education sector.”
He assured that his administration would continue to subsidize education for every child in the state to have the opportunity to go school, and appealed to parents for cooperation.
He said. “Government has reconstructed schools destroyed by the protracted insurgency, provided furniture, books, laboratory equipment and employed more qualified teachers to improve the quality content of education in the state, and it is still a work in progress.”
Currently, there are about 40,000 Yobe state students on government scholarships studying various courses in Universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and overseas.