Yobe State Governor, Mai Mala Buni, will honour two indigenes of the state, a 17-year-old Nafisa Abdullah and a 15-year-old Rukayya Mugammad-Fema, for emerging World Best in English language skills and overall debate competitions, respectively, at the 2025 TeenEagle Finals in London, United Kingdom.

The Director General of Media and Press Affairs to the Governor, Mamman Mohammed, disclosed this in a press statement made available to journalists in Damaturu, the state capital.

The two students, Nafisa and Rukayya, are students of the Nigerian Tulip International College, who represented Nigeria at the World competition to beat 20,000 other participants from 69 countries.

Nafisa and Rukayya are both beneficiaries of the Governor Buni’s scholarship programme, covering full tuition for 890 students at the Nigeria Tulip International College.

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Buni described the outstanding performances as a great honour to the state and the country.

“These are great feats that make us proud and justify the government’s investment in the education sector,” the statement reads in part.

He assured that his administration would continue to subsidize education for every child in the state to have the opportunity to go to school, and appealed to parents for cooperation.

“Government has reconstructed schools destroyed by the protracted insurgency, provided furniture, books, laboratory equipment, and employed more qualified teachers to improve the quality of education in the state, and it is still a work in progress,” he said.

It said there are about 40,000 Yobe state students on government scholarships studying various courses in universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria and overseas.