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  • U.S-based Ekiti NGO gives N2m scholarship to pupils

    A non-governmental organisation (NGO) floated by Ekiti State indigenes in Indiana, the United States of America (U.S.A), Ekiti Kete, has awarded 82 secondary school scholarships worth N2 million to indigent pupils in the 16 local government areas of the state.

    The group said it was part of its year efforts to build capacity and enhance the education of the beneficiaries.

    At the presentation of the cheque to the beneficiaries, the association’s President Samuel Ojo said the Ekiti Kete Indiana scholarship scheme was introduced to give back to the society and provide a platform for the development of youths.

    The NGO’s chief said efforts would be intensified at ensuring that more academically gifted but economically disadvantaged students benefit from the scheme.

    He said: “Our objective is to harness and unleash the youths’ potential towards the building of a better society.”

    Also, the NGO’s secretary and an Associate Professor Department of Applied Health Services in Indiana State University, Dr Olabode Ayodele, said Ekiti Kete Indiana was a socially responsible association committed to the development of the youths.

    He said: “We believe that education is the cornerstone of our future and we are proud to invest our resources by offering incentives for academic performance.”

    The coordinator of the scholarship scheme, Elder Joshua Ajayi, hailed the NGO for sponsoring the scholarship scheme.

    He said it had recorded huge successes and growth since its inception in 2011.

  • Daily Trust, Foundation offer scholarship to IDPs’ pupils

    Media Trust Limited, publishers of Daily Trust Newspapers, has partnered with Yomi Otubela Foundation (YOF), a non-profit making body, to offer scholarship to some of the internally displaced pupils willing to return to school.

    At a briefing at Lagooz Schools, Iyana Ipaja in Lagos, the Chief Executive Officer of the Foundation, Chief Abayomi Otubela said the scholarship is to contribute towards education in Africa as well as arouse a healthy academic rivalry among primary and secondary school pupils.

    “The motive and vision of the organisation is to resolve scholarship program in order to add sustainable happiness to the lives of African pupils and women, giving hope to the hopeless. It is also to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and women to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives,” Otubela, also the national deputy president of National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), added.

    He explained that the foundation has resolved to extend the scholarship to pupils with deep knowledge of mathematics and within Primary 5 and 6, JSS1, SS1 to SS2 and between ages 9-15 years, who may be willing to take part in the foundation qualification scheduled for June.

    Otubela, who also underscored the importance of Mathematics, said: “However, it is true that the world can only advance through science and technology. My question, therefore, is: ‘Can science and technology be meaningful without mathematics? And if we don’t give the young ones those things that will motivate them to love mathematics, will the world not dwindle to the historical Dark Ages?”

  • Scholarship for indigent students

    Scholarship for indigent students

    The Ilaje Regional Development Council (IRDC) in the coastal area of Ondo State has given scholarship to more than 400 indigent students in secondary and tertiary schools. The gesture was aimed at providing quality education for its people within the Regional Development Council (RDC) in the oil-producing area.

    At Igbokoda, headquarters of Ilaje Local Government Area venue of the event, cheques were given to the indigent students of the mandate area of the RDC.

    Over 400 students in the secondary and higher institutions benefited from the gesture. While those in the higher institutions received N50, 000 each, secondary school students received N20, 000.

    Speaking at the occasion, Chairman of RDC, Prince Henry Ehinmola said the council initiated the scheme as an annual event different from that of the NNPC/CHEVRONN which scope of beneficiaries extended beyond the RDC mandate area.

    He said the scholarship scheme was strategically put in place to complement the efforts of the state government in order to improve the quality of education of the students in the oil-producing area.

    This is to also assist parents in educating their children.

    The chairman of Ilaje Local Government Area, who was represented by one of his supervisors, Jossy

    Ehimore said the programme was a laudable one as “every programme on education is a programme to improve the well-being of humanity”.

    He appreciated the management of RDC for the initiative and implored the beneficiaries to make judicious use of the gesture.

    All present at the ceremony praised the generosity of the RDC.

    The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was represented at the occasion by officials of the Ministry of Niger Delta, the Ugbo Traditional Council of Chiefs.

    Besides, all community heads and representatives of the GMoU areas were also in attendance.

    One of the beneficiaries, Emmanuel Omogbemi expressed his happiness and promised to utilise the money given to him sensibly.

    Omogbemi said after his education, he will definitely come back home to join in the development of the oil-rich Ilaje land.

  • Nine get Rotary’s N2.2m scholarship

    Rotary’s District 9110 has offered nine undergraduates scholarship worth N2.2million at its Ikeja, Lagos headquarters.

    The beneficiaries are: Onajike Opeyemi (200 Level Biology of the National Open University (NOUN); Titilayo Tawakalitu (200 Level Geography and Regional Planning of the Lagos State University (LASU); Felicia Adebayo Modupe (200 Level Mathematics Education University of Lagos (UNILAG); Ayobami Ahmed Agbaje (200 Level Medicine and Surgery UNILAG); Damilola Sholakunmi Ogunyinka (200 Level Nutrition and Dietetics Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta).

    Others are Atinuke Temitope David (200 Level Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State); Gloria Onyinye Johnson (200 Level Mathematics UNILAG); Mariam Iyabo Bakenne (200 Level Marketing LASU) and Michael Olusegun (200 Level Accounting NOUN).

    At the presentation, Rotary District 9110 Governor Bola Onabadejo said the group has done a lot of good through its foundation. He urged the government to assist indigent students.

    Rotary’s District Educational and Welfare Endowment (DEWEF) Chairman Adeniji Raji said the students were selected on merit after series of tests, which started from the clubs.

    He advised the scholars to work hard to justify the awards and upon graduation assist others.

  • Donor enhances scholarship opportunities

    Beneficiaries of the Olu Akeusola Foundation yearly scholarship awards have shot up to 18 as against 16 in the previous year.

    Also preference was granted to Local Authority Primary School and Epe Grammar School in Epe where the celebrator, Prof Olu Akeusola, acquired his basic and secondary education.

    The auditorium of the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPD), where the event held, featured guests, students and beneficiaries who gathered to congratulate the professor of Comparative Grammar on his 54th birthday.

    On the rostrum was the celebrator’s elder brother, Olu Akeusola; MOCPED Deputy Provost Dr Sulaimon Popoola; Registrar Bola Shittu, and Bursar Alhaji Ghaniyu Ajose.

    For the celebrant however, the day provided him another opportunity to share his rags-to-riches testimony, and go on memory lane  to the world of the down trodden which he once belonged.

    “I was born rich but grew up poor,” Akeusola recounted as he took the microphone.

    “Between age 22 and 29, when I was in the college (of Education), I tasted poverty. I had to survive by driving kabukabu. I could not pay my way through school until I had scholarships from Michael Otedola Foundation and Federal Government. So, if I did not have the privilege of driving kabukabu and getting those scholarships, I wouldn’t have been where I am today.”

    Akeusola said he insisted some beneficiaries of the scholarships must come from the two schools because that was where his academic foundation was laid, adding that he picked another five beneficiaries from MOCPED because it was when he assumed the leadership of the institution about six years ago, that he had a divine breakthrough career wise.

    Director of the foundation, Dr Cecilia Folashade Ojetunde, went down memory lane on how the foundation was conceived.

    “When Prof Akeusola celebrated his 50th birhday four years ago, the foundation was established to reward academic excellence through scholarships to children in Epe Division and its environs. At present, nearly 80 students have benefited from it, including undergraduates from Tai Solarin University of Education;  Olabisi Onabanjo University, University of Ibadan as well as ‘special needs’ children.”

    Ojetunde said scholarships for pupils in the primary schools  are worth N10,000; N20,000 for those in secondary schools; N30,000 for those in universities and N40,000 for the special children.

    Ojetunde said the foundation would not be rigid to more financial assistance from interested members and friends of the celebrant.

    Amid donations, cultural performances and music rendition by MOCPED students, Miss Ifekoya Deborah, a Basic 5 pupil of LG Central Primary School and one of the beneficiaries, was full of thanks to the foundation.

    “I want to thank the foundation for the cheque and the storybook (biography) of Prof Akeusola which I will read to know more about his life from poverty to success,” said  the 11-year-old.

    Owadara Bukola Esther, a final year School of Science undergraduate of MOCPED, also sent in her prayers to the donor.

    “I’m very grateful to them (foundation). God shall continue to support them. I’m in my final year and this cheque would help me pay my school fees,” she said.

  • 60 blind students, others get Lagos scholarship

    The Lagos State Ministry of Education put smiles on the faces of 60 blind students and 366 others with the disbursement of special local scholarships worth N23,480,000.

    Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Education, Mr Obafela Bank-Olemoh presented the recipients with their cheques in his office with support from Mrs Omautan Jegede, the Director, Lagos State Scholarship Board (LSSB).

    While the blind students from the School of the Blind, Oshodi, got N3,000,000; 34 sportsmen who have won for Lagos in sporting events, got N6, 880,000, after providing evidence of admission into tertiary institutions; and 332 students of the Lagos State College of Health Technology, Yaba, were given N13,600,000.

    One of the blind students, simple called Kolapo, expressed her gratitude to the government in an emotion-laden voice.

    “We students are very grateful for this.  When this (blindness) happened to me, I thought it was the end.  But you have put a smile on our faces,” she said.

    Thanking the government, Principal of the school, Mr Shola Ogunsiji, said the scholarship would go a long way to help the school educate and rehabilitate the students, some of whom became blind as a result of accidents or illnesses.

    Bank-Olemoh said the government is still giving scholarships despite the harsh economy because it prioritises education.  He said the three categories of recipients that got the scholarship were proof that the government cares for all students.

    “We have demonstrated as a state that we are true trustees of the society.  You don’t have to know anybody to access our scholarship scheme. You have never heard that Lagos State scholars have not being paid.  Lagos has students on foreign scholarship and it has not happened that they were not paid,” he said.

    Bank-Olemoh also spoke of government’s plans to improve public library as well as provide an e-knowledge bank accessible to various categories of learners.

    “We are going to open a knowledge bank and it is going to be digital, so any Lagosian or Nigerian will go there and access knowledge.  Imagine you are primary two pupil and you are doing your home work and you are having problem with your fractions you go that website click on fractions and you can see a video and learn,” he said.

    Bank-Olemoh said the government is partnering with some private sector organisations to rehabilitate libraries.

  • Donor increases beneficiaries of scholarship

    Beneficiaries of the Olu Akeusola Foundation yearly scholarship awards has shot up to 18 as against 16 in the previous year.

    Also preference was granted to LA Primary School and Epe Grammar School in Epe where the celebrator Prof Olu Akeusola acquired his basic and secondary education.

    The auditorium of the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPD), where the event held on Monday, last week, featured guests, students and beneficiaries who gathered to congratulate the professor of Comparative Grammar on his 54th birthday.

    On the rostrum is the celebrator’s elder brother, Olu Akeusola; MOCPED Deputy Provost Dr Sulaimon Popoola; Registrar Bola Shittu, and Bursar Alhaji Ghaniyu Ajose.

    For the celebrant however, the day provided him another platform to share his rags-to-riches testimony, and an opportunity to plough back to the world of the down trodden upon which he once treaded but survived.

    “I was born rich but grew up poor,” Akeusola recounted as he clutched the microphone.

    “Between age 22 and 29, when I was in the college (of Education), I tasted poverty. I had to survive by driving kabukabu. I could not pay my way through school until I had scholarships from Michael Otedola Foundation and Federal Government. So, if I did not have the privilege of driving kabukabu and getting those scholarships, I wouldn’t have been where I am today.”

    Akeusola said he insisted some beneficiaries of the scholarships must come from the two schools because that was where his academic foundation was laid, adding that he picked another five beneficiaries from MOCPED because it was when he assumed the leadership of the institution about six years ago, that he had a divine breakthrough career wise.

    Director of the Foundation Dr Cecilia Folashade Ojetunde, went down memory lane on how the foundation was conceived.

    “When Prof Akeusola celebrated his 50th birhday four years ago, the foundation was established to reward academic excellence through scholarships to children in Epe Division and its environs. At present, nearly 80 students have benefited from it, including undergraduates from Tai Solarin University of Education;  Olabisi Onabanjo University, University of Ibadan as well as ‘special needs’ children.”

    Ojetunde said scholarships for pupils in the primary schools  are worth N10,000; N20,000 for those in secondary schools; N30,000 for those in universities and N40,000 for the special children.

    Ojetunde said the foundation would not be rigid to more financial assistance from interested members and friends of the celebrant.

    Amid donations, cultural performances and music rendition by MOCPED students, Miss Ifekoya Deborah, a Basic 5 pupil of LG Central Primary School and one of the beneficiaries, was full of thanks to the foundation.

    “I want to thank the foundation for the cheque and the storybook (biography) of Prof Akeusola which I will read to know more about his life from poverty to success,” said  the11-year-old.

    Owadara Bukola Esther, a final year School of Science undergraduate of MOCPED, also sent in her prayers to the donor.

    “I’m very grateful to them (foundation). God shall continue to support them. I’m in my final year and this cheque would help me pay my school fees,” she said. eneficiaries of the Olu Akeusola Foundation yearly scholarship awards has shot up to 18 as against 16 in the previous year.

    Also preference was granted to LA Primary School and Epe Grammar School in Epe where the celebrator Prof Olu Akeusola acquired his basic and secondary education.

    The auditorium of the Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPD), where the event held on Monday, last week, featured guests, students and beneficiaries who gathered to congratulate the professor of Comparative Grammar on his 54th birthday.

    On the rostrum is the celebrator’s elder brother, Olu Akeusola; MOCPED Deputy Provost Dr Sulaimon Popoola; Registrar Bola Shittu, and Bursar Alhaji Ghaniyu Ajose.

    For the celebrant however, the day provided him another platform to share his rags-to-riches testimony, and an opportunity to plough back to the world of the down trodden upon which he once treaded but survived.

    “I was born rich but grew up poor,” Akeusola recounted as he clutched the microphone.

    “Between age 22 and 29, when I was in the college (of Education), I tasted poverty. I had to survive by driving kabukabu. I could not pay my way through school until I had scholarships from Michael Otedola Foundation and Federal Government. So, if I did not have the privilege of driving kabukabu and getting those scholarships, I wouldn’t have been where I am today.”

    Akeusola said he insisted some beneficiaries of the scholarships must come from the two schools because that was where his academic foundation was laid, adding that he picked another five beneficiaries from MOCPED because it was when he assumed the leadership of the institution about six years ago, that he had a divine breakthrough career wise.

    Director of the Foundation Dr Cecilia Folashade Ojetunde, went down memory lane on how the foundation was conceived.

    “When Prof Akeusola celebrated his 50th birhday four years ago, the foundation was established to reward academic excellence through scholarships to children in Epe Division and its environs. At present, nearly 80 students have benefited from it, including undergraduates from Tai Solarin University of Education;  Olabisi Onabanjo University, University of Ibadan as well as ‘special needs’ children.”

    Ojetunde said scholarships for pupils in the primary schools  are worth N10,000; N20,000 for those in secondary schools; N30,000 for those in universities and N40,000 for the special children.

    Ojetunde said the foundation would not be rigid to more financial assistance from interested members and friends of the celebrant.

    Amid donations, cultural performances and music rendition by MOCPED students, Miss Ifekoya Deborah, a Basic 5 pupil of LG Central Primary School and one of the beneficiaries, was full of thanks to the foundation.

    “I want to thank the foundation for the cheque and the storybook (biography) of Prof Akeusola which I will read to know more about his life from poverty to success,” said  the11-year-old.

    Owadara Bukola Esther, a final year School of Science undergraduate of MOCPED, also sent in her prayers to the donor.

    “I’m very grateful to them (foundation). God shall continue to support them. I’m in my final year and this cheque would help me pay my school fees,” she said.

  • Daughter of ex-The Nation man, five others get scholarship

    Daughter of ex-The Nation man, five others get scholarship

    Succour came yesterday the way of a six-year-old Miss Jemimah Aladelokun, daughter of the late Assistant Editor of The Nation newspapers, Mr Dada Aladelokun and five other children of deceased journalists.

    They got scholarship from the Richard Akinnola Foundation.

    Aladelokun died last September 25 at Lagos University Hospital (LUTH), Idi-Araba, after a protracted illness.

    Chairman of the Foundation, Mr Richard Akinnola, who presented the scholarship of N100,000 each to the beneficiaries yesterday at the Ladi Lawal Press Centre, Alausa, Ikeja said the gestured was geared towards ameliorating the sufferings of widows of the deceased journalists.

    He explained that beyond the momentary emotional outpouring after the demise of journalists, the widows and children are left to face the arduous of life.

    Akinnola said the foundation,  established four years ago, has reached out to widows by empowering them, adding that it decided to use this year’s edition to go a notch higher by giving out annual scholarships to the children.

    He said the scholarship is restricted to one child per family due to paucity of funds, adding that other consideration would be giving in the future as the foundation funds improve.

    Other beneficiaries of the scholarship include: Cynthia Okonkwo, Adeyemi Ogundeji, Amadi Onyedikachi, Samuel Paul and Omolara Sanni.

    Sanni, a student of Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ), who spoke for the beneficiaries, thanked the foundation for the gesture, assuring that they would make adequate use of the opportunity to become better citizens and care for their younger siblings.

    She said members of their family have not been having it easy since the demise of their father.

    “I have been having challenges to pay my school fees and for me to continue, I have to do little savings so as to meet up.

  • Daughter of late The Nation Editor, five others get scholarship

    Succor came the way of six year old Miss Aladelokun Jemimah, daughter of the late Assistant Editor of The Nation Newspapers, Mr. Dada Aladelokun and five other children of deceased journalists as they got scholarship from Richard Akinnola Foundation.

    Dada Aladelokun died on September 25, 2015 at a Lagos hospital after a protracted illness.

    Chairman of the Foundation, Mr. Richard Akinnola while presenting the scholarship of N100,000 each to the beneficiaries on Thursday at the Ladi Lawal Press Centre in Alausa, said the gesture was geared towards ameliorating the sufferings of the widows of the deceased journalists.

    He explained that beyond the momentary emotional outpouring after the demise of journalists, the widows and children are soon left to face the arduous situations of life.

    Akinnola said the foundation established in the last four has reached out to meet the needs of widows by empowering them, adding that it decided to use this year’s edition to go a notch higher by giving out annual scholarships to the children.

    He said the scholarship is restricted to one child per family due to paucity of funds, adding that other consideration would be given in the future as the foundation’s funds improve.

    Other beneficiaries of the scholarship include 19 years old Cynthia Okonkwo, Ogundeji Adeyemi Ezekiel, Amadi Samuel Onyedikachi, Samuel Olumide Paul, Sanni Omolara.

    Omolara, a student of Nigeria Institute of Journalism (NIJ) who spoke on behalf of the beneficiaries, thanked the foundation for the gesture while assuring that they would make adequate use of the opportunity to become better citizens and care for their younger siblings.

    She told our reporter that their family has not been having it easy since the demise of their father.

    “I have been having challenges with paying my school fees and for me to continue studying I have to do little savings so as to meet up with the fee payment. This gesture would go a long way to assist me and take away the pain my mother has been going through when it comes to how I will continue my studies,” Omolara said.

    Also Mrs. Folusho Samuel, widow of late Encomium Weekly Deputy Editor, Folusho Samuel who passed away on October 28, 2015, also relieved her experience since the demise of her husband.

    She said she has been worried about coping with her rent that will soon expire and also thinking of meeting the children fees when school resumes next term.

    She thanked the foundation saying the gesture is a big relief for her and her family.

  • Lawmakers seek scholarship for stray-bullet victim

    Lawmakers seek scholarship for stray-bullet victim

    The Lagos State House of Assembly (LAHA) yesterday implored Governor Akinwunmi Ambode to consider giving scholarship to Master Bolaji Kalejaiye, a victim of stray-bullet, during the March 3 violence at Mile 12.

    Kalejaiye, who was the Head Prefect of Kosofe Senior Secondary School, Mile 12, was hit by a stray-bullet on his way home after sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that fateful day.

    The call followed a motion by Mr Segun Olulade, the Chairman, House Committee on Health, and Mr Yinka Ogundimu, the Chairman, House Committee on Finance.

    The lawmakers took turns to commend Speaker Mudashiru Obasa for leading a delegation from the Assembly to visit the victim at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) last Saturday.

    The lawmakers, who hailed residents of the area for rescuing the boy, called for the investigation of police officers at Mile 12 Police Post, who allegedly turned the victim back when he sought safety.

    The House resolved to write commendation letters to the managements of a private hospital and LASUTH that attended to the victim without asking for police reports.

    It also resolved to send a condemnation letter to the Commissioner of Police, Mr Fatai Owoseni, over the action of the officers at the Mile 12 Police Post.

    Obasa lauded the residents for their courage to rescue the young boy, saying: “We need to write a letter of condemnation to the police and ask the Commissioner of Police to investigate the officers at the police station that sent Kalejaiye back at that critical time. They failed in their duty on that day. They owe everybody a duty to protect lives and property. We will forward a letter of appeal to Governor Ambode to consider if there is a way to support the boy in his study,” he said.

    He added: “I was deeply moved by the situation of this young boy. I salute his courage and bravery to use his uniform to close up his intestine after being hit by a stray-bullet.

    “He has a determination to live and excel even when he was turned back from the police station,” he said.

    Earlier, Olulade, who praised the speaker for paying the hospital bill for the initial surgery, said the boy would soon go for a second surgery.

    The lawmaker, who said Kalejaiye scored 250 at the UTME, urged the government to help him secure admission into the University of Ibadan (UI) to study medicine.