Photo: Gov Zulum admiring the mud design version of the flyover while the kid takes him through some technical details of his work
Gov Babagana Zulum of Borno has awarded a N5 million scholarship to Musa Sani, a talented 13-year-old kid who used mud to replicate the state’s first flyover around the customs round-about in Maiduguri, the state capital.
The governor made the payment to Golden Olive Academy, Maiduguri, on Monday to cater for Musa’s education from primary four to completion of Senior Secondary School.
Zulum was represented by the Chairperson of Borno State Education Trust Fund, ETF, Prof. Hauwa Biu, who presented the kid’s scholarship cheque of five million and twenty nine thousand naira.
The fund has already been paid to a private school at which Musa is now schooling.
Biu thanked Gov Zulum for the offer and urged the boy to focus on his studies and make the governor proud.
A Primary 3 pupil of Community School, Gwange, Musa was born into a less privileged family that lives in Gwange area of Maiduguri.
Periscope International gathered that Zulum’s attention was drawn to the kid’s ingenuity when he used mud to design a flyover that was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari in Maiduguri, back in December.
Zulum, who was amazed by the kid’s brilliance, later sought to meet his family and offered to approve the scholarship for him, in order to harness his talents.
He was said to have directed the Borno State Education Trust Fund (ETF) to fund the boy’s education.
