18 Year Female candidate Tops AUN’s Nationwide Scholarship Exam

A former Student of Air Force Girls Secondary School, Jos, Plateau State, Maryam Usman has emerged as the overall winner of the nationwide scholarship examination into the American University of Nigeria.

The eighteen-year old Usman, hails from Borno State and has applied to study Natural and Environmental Sciences at AUN.

Usman, graduated with distinction in all her SS3 subjects and scored 253 marks in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.

She took the scholarship exam at the North East center, which is on the AUN campus in Yola, Adamawa State.

As the overall winner of the national scholarship exams for spring 2017, Usman’s award will cover tuition, board, meals and other fees at AUN.

The scholarship examination was conducted simultaneously at six centers covering all the geopolitical zones of Nigeria in December 2016.

The aim was to screen college-ready applicants for AUN’s 49 scholarships for spring 2017.

The Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Recruitment of AUN, Linus Ikyurav, who released details of the awards, said altogether 34 candidates won 45 of the 49 available slots.

Four states – Gombe, Ebonyi, Bayelsa and Yobe – did not field eligible candidates.