About 120 students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University were the beneficiaries of the scholarship scheme instituted by the senator representing Anambra South senatorial zone, Dr. Andy Uba. Each of the students received 50,000 naira each.
It was learnt the handing over of the cash to the students began last month at the Awka campus of the university and it was the turn of the beneficiaries in the faculty of pharmaceutical sciences of the university last week. At that occasion, 18 students received their cash from the dean of the faculty, Dr. Uzochukwu Ikemefuna.
The beneficiaries of the scholarship were students having four points and above in their cumulative grade points and have to maintain it that way.