The Niger Delta Development Commission, on Wednesday, bought forms for 30 indigent Rivers State candidates intending to write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
It picked five beneficiaries from each from Community Secondary School Kaani, and Community Secondary School, Rumuapara and fifty JAMB forms for students of Western Ahoada County High School.
The commission also distributed learning materials to indigent students in primary and secondary schools in the three senatorial districts in the state.
The Rivers State representative on the management board of the NDDC, Chief Tony Okocha, disclosed this, on Wednesday, during a visit to the schools in commemoration of the United Nations’ International Education Day.
It also distributed books and writing materials to students of Community Primary School 2 Kaani, Community Primary School 1 Kaani, and Community Secondary School, Kaani both in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The gesture was also extended to students of the Community Primary School, Rumuorosi, Community Secondary School, Rumuapara in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area and Western Ahoada County High School, Ahoada East Local Government Area.
Okocha, who is also the Chairman, of the Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers State, also visited and donated copies of a book he authored on the political experience of Rivers State to his alma mater, the University of Port Harcourt.
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