The Branch Director of the association, Prof. Haruna-Mohammed Jibril, spread the word about this in a collaboration with newsmen on Saturday in Zaria.

Jibril said the association, during its Public Chief Gathering meeting at Gombe State College in February 2018, founded a grant plot for destitute understudies at every one of the parts of the association.

He added that under the plan, the public association granted N200,000 to two recipients of the award to help the impoverished understudy in their scholarly interests

The administrator said the public association urged branches to imitate the signal; in like manner, the ABU Part offered extra grants to two understudies from 2018 to 2022.

"This year, when we returned from our gathering at Kaduna State College, we advised the congress and the congress supported the vertical audit of the award to N1.6m,'' he said.

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He added that the N1.6m for eight recipients was notwithstanding the underlying N400,000 for two recipients from the public body, carrying the complete to N2m.

He further made sense of that the ASUU ABU Section dispensed the award in light of the fact that the understudies had started enrollment for the new meeting, consequently its choice for early arrival of the assets to recipients.

As indicated by him, the recipients are splendid understudies who have a base CGPA of 3.0 and they likewise have a past filled with monetary difficulties.

Jibril said other than the grant awards to penniless understudies, ASUU had likewise given N50m worth of palliatives to Inside Uprooted People (IDPs) across northern Nigeria.