Second Reading: Hon. Joshua Chinedu Obika-MHR, Sponsored A Bill For An Act To Establish Federal Capital Territory Scholarship Board To Facilitate Provision Of Scholarship To Pupils And Students Who Are Original Inhabitants And Residents Of The Federal Capital Territory To Promote Sustainable Educational Development In The FCT And For Related Matters, 2025

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  • Second Reading: Hon. Joshua Chinedu Obika-MHR, Sponsored A Bill For An Act To Establish Federal Capital Territory Scholarship Board To Facilitate Provision Of Scholarship To Pupils And Students Who Are Original Inhabitants And Residents Of The Federal Capital Territory To Promote Sustainable Educational Development In The FCT And For Related Matters, 2025

ENACTED by the National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The Board shall: Be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.

The Board shall reward, promote and encourage academic excellence;

Develop human resources for manpower need of the nation;

Make education accessible to residents of the FCT;

Reduce rate of out-of-school students due to financial constraints;

Provide conducive, peaceful and friendly atmosphere for learning;

Provide accommodation for scholars in higher institutions;

Monitor and evaluate scholarship programmes;

Award 25% of the scholarship to original inhabitants of the FCT, 10% to each geo-political zone and 5% based on discretion of the Board.

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