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  • Scholarships for Delta private university students

    Scholarships for Delta private university students

    Scholarships for Delta private university students

    Students from privately owned institutions in Delta State now have an opportunity to benefit from the state’s government scholarship and bursary schemes.

    The decision was made known by the state governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan last week when he received a delegation from Novena University, Ogume in Asaba.

    The governor, who expressed surprise when he heard that students from privately owned institutions were unjustly excluded from the scheme, said the scholarship and bursaries were meant for all Deltans regardless of their institutions.

    He directed the State Ministry of Education and Scholarship Board to ensure that that all higher institutions in the state whether public or private be included in the scheme.

    “I am surprised to hear that students of private institutions were not benefitting from the bursary and scholarship programmes. The programmes are for all students of Delta State origin in higher institutions whether owned by government or private individuals,” the governor stated.

    Delighted by the governor’s decision some students from privately owned institutions who spoke with our correspondents said the bursary and scholarship scheme will ease the financial burdens of their parents and enable them enjoy some benefits available to their counterparts in government owned institutions”.

    Blessing Lawrence, a student of Western Delta University, Oghara said if implemented, the governor’s gesture will give students in private universities a sense of belonging. “I’m very happy because if the governor’s orders are implemented it will give those of us in private institutions a sense of belonging. We will be able to enjoy the benefits our counterparts in government owned schools enjoy.”

    For Daniel Okodua, a third year student of Novena University Ogume, participating in the bursary and scholarship schemes will ease the financial burdens of parents who have children in private institutions. He said: “If we can get scholarships and bursaries like those in public universities, it will go a long way in easing the financial burdens of our parents. They will be able to save money in order to meet other needs”.

  • Essays earn six pupils scholarship

    It was reward time last Thursday for secondary school pupils who excelled in the essay competition organised by the Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) as they went home with scholarship grants and memories of shaking hands with Governor Babatunde Raji Fashola.

    Their reward was made more memorable because they were celebrated on the same platform with tax compliant individuals and corporate organisations at the sixth Lagos State Taxation Stakeholders’ Conference held at The Havens, Ikeja.

    Ten-year-old Yesirah Adepeju Adebiyi, a pupil of Asafa Tijani Memorial High School, Iponri, won in the Junior Secondary School (JSS) category for her essay titled: Payment of tax is your duty, your civic responsibility and the law.

    The JSS1 pupil was rewarded with N250,000 scholarship and a computer for her school, while first and second runners up, Ibrahim Adeyemi Olalekan of Federal Government College, Ijanikin, and Temitope Akinbinu of Gbagada Girls’ Junior Secondary School, Gbagada, got N200,000 and N150,000 as well as computers for their school.

    In the Senior Secondary School (SSS) category, Ibukun Ajayi of Lagos African Church Grammar School, Ifako-Ijaiye, came first; Simisola Oyetomi of Apapa Senior High School, Apapa was second, while Blessing Idokwe came third. The senior pupils, who wrote on Lagos State will continue to be a centre of excellence if all taxable adults pay their taxes promptly and correctly, got the same prize money as the JSS category winners.

    Speaking to The Nation on the reward, Yesirah, whose favourite subject is Mathematics, said she learnt the importance of tax revenue to the running of the state while researching the essay.

    “I feel happy. I learnt a lot about taxes. It is necessary to pay taxes because it helps to build our country and the state,” he said.

    On her part, Ibukun said from participating in the exercise, she now seeks opportunity to enlighten people about taxes.

    “I wish I can be given the chance to enlighten people to pay their taxes. If they pay, the government will fulfil its promises,” he said.

    Speaking on the competition, Executive Chairman of LIRS, Mr Tunde Fowler, said 2,017 entries were received from public and private secondary schools in Lagos with a ratio of 70:30 per cent in favour of the public schools. The cut-off mark was 85 per cent for JSS category and 80 for SSS.

    Tax compliant individuals rewarded at the event included Chief Akintola Williams, Mrs Ibukun Awosika, Alhaji Taofik Akinola, among others. Corporate organisations honoured were: Coca Cola Nigeria Ltd; Julius Berger Plc, Methodist Girls High School, Promasidor Nigeria Ltd, and T.A. Amuda and Sons.

  • Ngige floats N100m scholarship scheme

    Ngige floats N100m scholarship scheme

    It was a day of joy for members of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Anambra Central Senatorial zone of Anambra State when the member representing them at the Senate, Senator Chris Ngige, announced a N100m scholarship scheme for the zone.

    It was the day the former governor said, “thank you” to members of the ACN for standing behind him during his political battle with former Minister of Information, Prof. Dora Akunyili.

    With joy radiating on his face he said: “This is just the beginning of good things for our great party.

    “With the faces we are seeing here today, it means that ACN is still very strong in this state. I have just inaugurated the six-classroom blocks I built at the Federal Government College in Nise, borehole and four toilets. More are still coming.”

    Again, he had gathered the widows, the less-privileged and the needy in the society in his senatorial zone to give them hope.

    Before then, Ngige, alongside the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on Interparty Relations, Senator Ben Ndi Obi, and Sir Goddy Ezeemo, had inaugurated a new ACN office at Amawbia in Awka South Local Government Area.

    He told his supporters that the gestures would be replicated in all the seven local government areas in the central senatorial zone, adding “we are in the spree of openings.”

    Continuing, he said: “We are also giving empowerment to our people through skill acquisition and scholarship schemes to each constituency. People will learn soap making, hairdressing, while others will go to school. Everybody must be happy. This is what ACN is all about.

    He said that the office which was inaugurated at Amawbia was donated by an admirer of the ACN.

    On 2013 governorship election, Ngige said: “Man proposes and God disposes, the date is coming. It is not a long distance but the main thing is that this party is thinking ahead.”

    He announced a donation of N100m scholarship scheme for students in the area, N10m for the ACN state secretariat, N1.050m for each of the 21 local government area offices of the ACN in the state.

    Not done, Ngige also donated six Camry cars and two buses to some members of the party. He said that another eight would arrive in the second phase of the largesse in March.

    He also donated over 20,000 bags of rice, cartons of tomatoes, millions of indomie noodles, uncountable tins of groundnut oil, and bags of salt, among others to orphanage homes in the senatorial zone.

    Besides, over 10 churches in Abuja, Enugu, Anambra, and Edo states got their own shares of N500, 000 each. The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) and University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) also received N200, 000 and N250, 000 respectively.

    Ngige also donated some items to wards and local government areas that gave him massive votes during the senatorial election, even as he urged them to do more in subsequent elections for ACN in the state.

    The Chairman of the ACN in the state, Chief Amechi Obidike told Newsextra that he was overwhelmed.

    He said he accepted the chairmanship of the party in the state to win elections and not for moon lighting, adding that what occupies the minds of ACN members in the state is for the party to occupy the Anambra State Government House 2014.

    For Sir Goddy Ezeemo, he commended the ACN members in the state for sticking together without any rancour.

    He said: “I am part of this revolution. I have been there for quite a long time and I will continue being with ACN.”

    The ACN lawmakers in the state, Hon Tony Oneweek Muonagor, (Idemili North), Hon Ebele Obi (Idemili South), the immediate past Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Sir Ozo Ughamadu told Newsextra that 2013 would not be a year for jamboree, but for serious business for ACN in Anambra State.

    Describing Ngige as a fearless person, Senator Ben Ndi Obi said that Ngige was the person who galvanised all the governors then to fight against former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s third term agenda.

    He said: “The truth is that, since the advent of democracy in Nigeria, the governor that made people knows what democracy dividend was all about was Ngige. He changed the face of democracy in Nigeria.”

  • N1.5b for Delta scholarship

    Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has said his administration spends N1.5 billion annually on scholarship.

    The governor spoke at the weekend in Asaba during the presentation of cheques to beneficiaries of the 2012 first- class graduates and law school students’ scholarship schemes.

    He said this was part of the human capital development efforts geared towards realizing the policy of ‘Delta Beyond Oil’.

    He said the scheme comprises bursary award for undergraduates, students in the law schools, first-class graduates and PhD students.

    The governor said 135 graduates have benefitted from the first-class graduate scheme with N476,086,400 for the third batch.

    Each of the beneficiaries will get N5 million yearly to study up to doctoral degree level in any university of their choice.

  • 20 Journalists get scholarship in Rivers

    The Commissioner for Information and Communication in Rivers, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, has advised Nigerian journalists to update their knowledge through training.

    The commissioner gave the advice in Port Harcourt on Friday at the presentation of scholarship award to 20 journalists.

    The scholarship award was instituted by Prince Emma Anyanwu, the Patron of Rivers State Council, Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) for members of the union.

    In her speech at the occasion, Semenitari, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary in the ministry, Mrs. Jokotade Adamu, said that journalism required regular updating of knowledge through training.

    She said that constant training would enable journalists to be well informed about the society and commended Anyanwu for instituting the award for journalists in the state.

    Seminitari urged the beneficiaries to make good use of the offer by ensuring that they did well in their various studies.

    ‘’I want to charge the recipients of this wonderful gesture. You are not just to collect the money and go and while away your time in whatever institution you are trying to get into.

    ‘’You are to go there and be very serious with whatever you are doing.

    “That is the way the financier will appreciate that you have spent his money well,’’ the News Agency of Nigeria quoted the commissioner as saying at the forum.

    In his remarks, Prince Anyanwu, said he instituted the N2 million scholarship award to assist journalists in the state update their knowledge in their profession.

    “I was inspired to take this mission because of the thankless and hazardous services rendered by members of the NUJ in Nigeria.

    “Many of you have gone through many pains in the process of your assignments, and nobody has come to say thank you.

    ‘’I am not here for you to thank me. I am here to reward your efforts, to encourage you, to share with you the pains you go through in the process of discharging your duties which is voluntary.

    ‘’ You earn nothing, your salaries are meagre. But you discharge your duties to the nation, to the state and to your family with joy,’’ he said.

     

  • Fashola disburses N77m for scholarship

    Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has approved N77, 536,621.20 as scholarship award to 337 qualified indigenes in various tertiary institutions throughout the country .

    Board Secretary Mrs. Yetunde Jegede, who made this known to reporter yesterday, said the beneficiaries are 223 undergraduate students with 3.5 Grade Point and above and 74 post graduate students who took part in the last Local Scholarship interview in January.

    She said: ”The list also includes 40 undergraduate students who automatically qualified for Merit Award having got 4.0 Grade Point and above”.

    Mrs. Jegede explained that the documentation the presentation ahead of this category of beneficiaries will commence next Monday at the Board premises in Agege.

    She noted that thereafter, ATM Cards would be released to beneficieries that have been cleared.

    The secretary implored the concerned students to come for their award with original and photocopies of documents which include school identity card, current Progress Report, two passport photographs, letter of admission, N2, 000.00 LSSB Brochure receipt obtained from the Office of the Special Adviser on Education, Alausa and every other document that were not submitted earlier.

    The award value ranges between N200, 000.00, N300, 000.00 and N400, 000.00 for undergraduate, master’s and doctorate students.

    Online sale of the local scholarship award for 2012/2013 session would also start on October 22.

    Interested applicants are expected to pay and obtain receipt of N2, 000.00 at the Office of Special Adviser on Education, Block 5, Secretariat, Alausa, after which a scratch cards will be obtained at State Scholarship Board, Agege.

    She urged applicatants to submit their forms at the interview centre with Letter of Admission, father’s birth certificate, applicant’s birth certificate, identification letter from local government, Identification letter from royal father, student school I. D card, JAMB Result Slip, SSCE/GCE Result, receipt of purchase of application form, and Current progress report with minimum of 3.5 CGPA or 2nd Class Upper for post graduate applicants.

  • 36 indigent students get scholarship

    Thirty- six students from indigent homes in Lagos, Oyo and Ogun states have been awarded scholarships for tertiary education by the Beatrice Olajide Foundation (BOAF).

    The students, drawn from 10 secondary schools in the two states, were honoured with scholarship award certificates for their excellent academic performance at a ceremony held last Saturday in Ibadan.

    Three beneficiaries are from Obaseeku High School , Eruwa, one from Adeniran Ogunsanya Memorial Grammar School, Ogbomosho and nine from Queens School, Ibadan.

    Others are from the Handicapped HLA, Agodi, Ibadan, Holy Child College, Lagos, Lagelu Special School, Cheshire High School, Lalupon and Ijebu- Ode Grammar School.

    Speaking at the awards and provisions of assistance to the physically-challenged, Chairman of the foundation’s Board of Trutees, Dr Olugbemi Akinnoye said the foundation has been sponsoring 18 pupils annually through their primary and secondary education since last year. He added that the first set of beneficiaries are being sponsored all over again.

    “This year, the foundation has agreed that students who are awarded scholarships last year and who continue to excel in their studies will continue to enjoy the foundation’s financial assistance in order to perform better.”

    Akinnoye said brilliant children who can only attend public secondary schools at best are painstakingly fished out from churches, streets, mosques and others, for financial assistance for specific expenditure items such as book procurement, purchase of uniforms among others.

    He promised that the foundation will also continue to render financial assistance to those who perform excellently throughout their secondary education.

    The BOT chairman added that five wheel-chairs will also be distributed to deserving physically challenged individuals from select schools.

    He urged Nigerians to cultivate the attitude of giving scholarships to students who are helpless in the society.

    In his remark, Mr Felix Adenaike said it is pertinent for individuals, friends and the society at large to contribute to the survival of BOAF, bearing in mind its contribution to the lives of the less privilege in Nigeria.

    One of the recipients, Miss Banke Alabi from Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo, spoke of her gratitude to the foundation.

    She said:” I want to thank the foundation for the scholarship. As they have been putting smile on my face, may the Lord put a smile on their faces because I thought all hope was lost.”

    Dignitaries at the occasion included: former Vice-Chancellor of Caleb University, Prof Rotimi Tayo, the Chief Medical Director of National Orthopedic Centre, Dr Kabir Abubakar, Prof Akin Aboderin, Justice Titi Mabogunje, among others