Group Awards Scholarships To 35 Indigent Students In Kogi

No less than 35 secondary schoolhouse students from little privileged homes successful Ebiraland successful Kogi Central, person benefited from the assistance grant of Back to School Initiative, organised successful representation of precocious Enesi Oyeyani Makoju.

Late Enesi Oyeyani Makoju, is the lad of Late Joseph Makoju, erstwhile managing manager of the defunct National Electric Power Authority, (NEPA), and besides Group Managing Director/CEO of Dangote Cement Plc until his status connected January 31, 2020.

Speaking during the organisation of acquisition materials to the beneficiaries astatine Engr. Joseph Oyeyani Makoju’s residence, Ikaraworo successful Adavi section authorities country of Kogi State, the convener of the afloat funded assistance Engr. Suberu Onimisi Nusa, said the aims of the ‘Back to School Initiative’ was to assistance students who are orphans oregon from parents who tin not wage their children schoolhouse fees.

Speaking connected the commencement of the assistance programme, Engr. Nusa said, “Six years agone successful 2019 we selected ourselves to uplift acquisition strategy knowing afloat good the important of acquisition and however it tin easy alteration the lives of radical for better.

“In presumption of that and having considered the information that fingers are not adjacent successful presumption of fiscal capacity. We are besides alert that immoderate parents whenever their children implicit superior schools they find it precise hard to sponsor them to secondary school.

“Having considered each of these, we decided to travel unneurotic arsenic 1 to render assistance to specified parents done the sponsorship of their children to secondary schoolhouse for six years.

“We cautiously identified specified children crossed Ebiraland who does not person begetter oregon parent oregon they person parents but not susceptible to concern the acquisition of their children.

“We person done the archetypal acceptable of 35 students successful 2019, they were fixed schoolhouse uniforms, books, schoolhouse sandals, mathematical sets , penning materials, schoolhouse bags and their schoolhouse fees were paid done retired the six years.

“Today we are connected the 2nd acceptable contempt the decease of 1 of our financier Mr Enesi Oyeyani Makoju. We person selected 35 beneficiaries crossed Ebiraland successful his representation and the selected beneficiaries person besides received their acquisition materials, which includes, workout books, mathematical sets, schoolhouse bags, sandals, schoolhouse uniforms and outgo of their schoolhouse fees, which volition beryllium paid for the adjacent six years,” helium said.

While assuring that the sponsors of the programme volition proceed it, for the betterment of the little privileged successful Ebiraland, the convener appealed to the beneficiaries not to disappoint them, but to look their studies truthful that they tin travel retired arsenic bully ambassadors.

In his remarks, Dr. Hussein Etudaiye, different co-financier, charged the beneficiaries to instrumentality the vantage of the programme.