The Federal Government has set machinery in place to unveil the Lake Chad Scholarship Programme for Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states worst hit by insurgency.

A statement by the Federal Ministry of Education in Abuja, yesterday, said that the development was in response to the ongoing insurgency and its impact on education in the affected states.

According to the statement, the launch of the programme and unveiling of the scholarship portal, which will be held on November 14, 2023 in Abuja, will be headlined by Vice President Kashim Shettima.

It noted that the event would be unveiled under the Multi-sectoral Crisis Recovery Project Additional Financing (MCRP-AF).

MEANWHILE, Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, has solicited the support of the international community to enable the state government to resettle and rehabilitate 1.2 million Internally-Displaced Persons (IDPs).

According to him, the state government needs housing and other infrastructural facilities, as most of them were destroyed in the over a decade Boko Haram insurgency.

Buni, who solicited the resettlement support, yesterday, in Damaturu, while receiving the World Bank team, said that the global support would expedite actions in resettling the displaced persons with livelihood recovery projects. He lamented that the state is the second most hit by terrorism after the neighbouring Borno State.

He, therefore, urged that bank to collaborate with Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) on data generation and strategic policy implementation on resettlement and rehabilitation of IDPs. He also directed the MDAs to identify areas of intervention for the World Bank.