{"id":10137,"date":"2026-01-11T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=10137"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:21:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T11:21:39","slug":"10137","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/01\/11\/10137\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal ICON declares sponsorship of 10 Nupe Students to study Nupe language at Varsity level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal ICON declares sponsorship of 10 Nupe Students to study Nupe language at Varsity level<\/p>\n<p>By Uthman-Baba Naseer,Minna <\/p>\n<p>In his determination to encourage the study of the Mother tongues in our educational curricular across the country, a legal icon in Nupe Kingdom, Alhaji Mohammed Ndarani SAN has announced the sponsorship of 10 students to study Nupe Language at the University level.<\/p>\n<p>Ndarani disclosed that the scholarship would take effect upon the commencement of the Nupe Language degree programme recently approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>According to the legal luminary, he has  committed an undisclosed millions of Naira to fund the education from 100 to 400 levels for the beneficiaries.<\/p>\n<p>The  senior  legal practitioner explained that his decision was inspired by the sustained efforts of Nupe language advocates who worked tirelessly to institutionalise the course at the tertiary level.<\/p>\n<p>He described the approval as a historic milestone for the preservation of Nupe language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are fully prepared to support and formally unveil the Nupe Language degree programme once it begins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will also invite our associates and well-meaning individuals to support our (Nupe) kingdom by sponsoring more students.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the grace of God, we intend to create opportunities for outstanding graduates to participate in international exchange programmes after graduation,&#8221; Ndarani said.<\/p>\n<p>The Senior Advocate of Nigeria reiterated his commitment to human capital development, cultural preservation and academic advancement in Nupe land and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the scholarship would significantly encourage enrolment in the programme, ease financial burden of students and strengthen efforts aimed at sustaining indigenous languages through formal education.<\/p>\n<p>The NUC\u2019s approval of the Nupe Language degree programme has been widely hailed as a major breakthrough, while Ndarani\u2019s intervention is expected to make a lasting positive impact on both the beneficiaries and the wider Nupe community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal ICON declares sponsorship of 10 Nupe Students to study Nupe language at Varsity level By Uthman-Baba Naseer,Minna In his determination to encourage the study of the Mother tongues in our educational curricular across the country, a legal icon in Nupe Kingdom, Alhaji Mohammed Ndarani SAN has announced the sponsorship of 10 students to study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1767,4196,2606,3369],"class_list":["post-10137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-decision","tag-efforts","tag-inspired","tag-sustained"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10140,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10137\/revisions\/10140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}