By Hou Akot Hou<\/p>\n
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Governor of Northern Bahr El Gazal State, Ngor Tong Akeen, has pledged 6 million South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) to support Aweil students studying at the Upper Nile University.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The pledge came during a student fundraising ceremony held at the Nyakuron Cultural Center in Juba on Sunday. Aweil students organized the event to address the challenges they face which include a high dropout rate due to a lack of tuition fees.<\/p>\n Governor Tong attended the event after participating in an endorsement ceremony for President Salva Kiir held by the SPLM party at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum on Saturday.<\/p>\n In response to the students’ concerns about a lack of funds to continue their studies, which has led to many dropping out, Governor Tong encouraged the students to embrace the opportunities presented by their education.<\/p>\n He assured them that his government would employ the graduates upon their successful completion of their studies.<\/p>\n He pledged 6 million South Sudanese Pounds to support the Aweil students studying at the Upper Nile University branch in Juba.<\/p>\n Mr. Ngor assured the students of his government’s commitment to addressing the pressing issues faced by their communities back home.<\/p>\n He revealed that the state government has planned to cultivate more than 1,000 hectares of land to combat hunger in Northern Bahr El Ghazal.<\/p>\n The governor also urged other young people stranded in Juba to return home and help their families with cultivation, as the rainy season had already begun.<\/p>\n He emphasized the importance of contributing to the eradication of poverty through agricultural activities.<\/p>\n It remains to be seen how the governor’s promise will be translated into tangible support for the students, and whether it will have a lasting impact on their educational pursuits.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Hou Akot Hou Governor of Northern Bahr El Gazal State, Ngor Tong Akeen, has pledged 6 million South Sudanese Pounds (SSP) to support Aweil students studying at the Upper Nile University. The pledge came during a student fundraising ceremony held at the Nyakuron Cultural Center in Juba on[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25136,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Ngor-Tong-Akeen-addressing-Aweil-Students.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25137,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25135\/revisions\/25137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}