Fifty-two stranded Sokoto medical graduates have returned from India on Friday.
The students arrived Sultan Abubakar International around 12noon and were received by the Permanent Secretary in the Sokoto State Scholarship Board, and parents of the students.
Some of the parents and relatives of the students could not hold their joy as they ran and embraced their returning wards.
21st CENTURY CHRONICLE exclusively reported that how 99 students of the state were stranded in India, Sudan and Ghana.
Fifty-two of the affected students were in India, 29 in Sudan and 18 in Ghana.
However, few weeks after the report was published, Governor Tambuwal purchased return air ticket for 72 of the students in Sudan and India.
