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How DSP Barau and the FUDMA VC shielded Barau Scholars Amid Study Centres Relocation

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"nOnm5OrP" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>By Abba Anwar<&sol;p><div class&equals;"b2kVSaYd" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The possibility of life without challenges is zero point zero&period; As His Excellency&comma; Deputy Senate President&comma; Barau I Jibrin&comma; PhD&comma; CFR&comma; rightly observed and amplified&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It was during an interactive session&comma; that was held at Convocation Arena of Bayero University&comma; Kano&comma; Tuesday&comma; with the students he sponsored under Barau I&period; Jibrin Foundation&comma; to study at the Study Centres of Federal University Dutsin-Ma &lpar;FUDMA&rpar;&comma; in six local governments from his constituency&comma; Kano North&period; These are Bichi&comma; Dambatta&comma; Dawakin Tofa&comma; Gabasawa&comma; Gwarzo and Tofa&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The session was attended by the management of the university&comma; FUDMA&comma; under the leadership of the Vice Chancellor&comma; Prof MK Usman&comma; the students of the Centres and their parents&period; It was meant to discuss the relocation of the affected students from these Study Centres&comma; back to the main campus of the university&comma; in Dutsin-Ma&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"viCo96eW" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>According to the Vice Chancellor Prof Usman&comma; the directive was from the federal ministry of education&comma; that these Centres must relocate to the main campus of the university&period; Meaning&comma; all students would relocate from their respective local governments here in Kano and move to Dutsin-Ma town of Katsina state&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>During the session&comma; after prolonged discussion of the situation on ground&comma; by the Vice Chancellor&comma; DSP urged all the affected students to take this as part of the challenges of life&period; He was live virtually during the session&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He narrated how he intervened between the university and Minister of State&comma; Education&comma; on how the situation could be handled without the relocation&period; Believing that relocation could be disturbing to students&period; As many students complained&period; Citing extra spendings and insecurity as their main reasons against the new development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DSP Barau narrated in details&comma; how he requested for another option instead of the relocation&period; Explaining that&comma; the Minister said&comma; there was no room for any arrangement different from the relocation exercise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>One needs to see the humane face of the DSP when he was making his remarks to the students&period; When he realised that&comma; the faces of the students were requesting for reversal of the new policy&comma; he instantly changed their mood&comma; as he promised to take care of their transportation&comma; keep-up allowances and adequate provision of security escorts for their trips&comma; to and fro&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Apart from all other responsibilities&comma; to encourage them face their studies with all seriousness and commitment&period; A standing ovation greeted the Senator&comma; during and after his remarks&period; Human capital development&comma; as he believes and amplified at the session&comma; is the mainstay of any meaningful development&period; Reason why he believes in investing in the education of his people&period; For the development of the society&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Fear of living in new environment&comma; due to accommodation problem was allayed&comma; as the Vice Chancellor promised that&comma; all the relocated students would be accommodated freely in the university&period; It also appears here&comma; the issue of accommodation&comma; that both DSP Foundation and the university would work hand in hand to make the students comfortable&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A standing ovation greeted the entire hall when DSP said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;I will arrange for your transportation to and from Federal University Dutsin-Ma&period; I will give you resources to help you stay there comfortably&period; So also security will be provided&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among the students who were enrolled in the FUDMA&&num;8217&semi;s Study Centres&comma; some are in their final year&comma; some in level Three&comma; and so on and so forth&period; The Vice Chancellor assured all the students that&comma; quality would not be compromise&period; Praising the Deputy Senate President for his unrelenting effort for the betterment of the students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Even after the interactive session&comma; there were handful few&comma; who still insisted that&comma; they would rather seek for transfer to other institutions&comma; citing family issues as their main reason for rejecting the relocation policy&period; They are mostly married women&period; But it appears there could be other arrangement for this category of students&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many parents who attended the interactive session&comma; commended Senator Barau for being that magnanimous and caring for their wards&period; Ensuring that&comma; they would aid in the successful relocation exercise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Highlighting that there were many people out there who could not have similar opportunity to further their studies&period; Believing that&comma; DSP&&num;8217&semi;s interest in the development of his people&comma; was what made the intervention successful from day one&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Many students and their parents&comma; pointed out that&comma; they were privy to leaked information that&comma; some unpatriotic elements from Kano North were trying to politicize the new development&period; They further challenged that&comma; the development was not DSP&&num;8217&semi;s making or design&period; As a result&comma; they vehemently reject any possible political attack of the DSP over the situation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While acknowledging that&comma; His Excellency&comma; Senator Jibrin did his best through the Minister of State&comma; Education&comma; to see the possibility of policy reversal&comma; but that couldn&&num;8217&semi;t be possible&comma; as revealed by the Senator&comma; the majority of students and their parents&comma; including well wishers&comma; further revealed that&comma; the students benefiting from the scholarship scheme were not members of the ruling All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; only&comma; they cut across party boundaries&period; So according to them&comma; linking the relocation issue to politics is baseless&comma; needless and uncalled for&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Anwar writes from Kano<br &sol;>&NewLine;Wednesday&comma; 3rd June&comma; 2026<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 3&period;0&period;3 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; 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