The Presidential Amnesty Programme has commenced the distribution of laptops to final-year and post-graduate students under its scholarship scheme in partnership with universities across the country.
    
64 PAP scholarship beneficiaries, made up of 25 students from Nile University and 39 from Baze University, were presented with their laptops on Friday and Monday in the first phase of the distribution. They comprise 60 final year students, one doctor of philosophy, and three master’s degree students.
  
Speaking at the presentation ceremonies at Nile and Baze universities, the PAP Administrator, Dr. Dennis Otuaro, remarked that the gesture was in fulfilment of his promise to the scholarship beneficiaries during his tour of partnering institutions in 2024.
  
He said the office recognised the usefulness of the mobile computing device to students’ academic success, especially as they prepare to write their final year projects, theses and dissertations.
  
Otuaro, who was represented at the events by PAP’s Acting Head of Administration, Ebikpolade Zorab, and Secretary to the PAP boss, Ebimene Jackson, urged the scholars to make good use of the laptops and justify the objective behind the gesture.
 
Addressing the students, he said: “You are the first set of PAP scholarship students that are receiving these laptops, and we will also extend this (distribution) to other beneficiaries in other institutions that we are partnering with.
  
“I advise and encourage you to make good use of it for your academic progress. With these laptops, if you were to make a low grade in your project, we expect that you will score excellent grades because you now have portable computers to enhance your academic endeavours.