Ooni Earmarks N50m For Scholarship Awards To 20 Indigent Students
No fewer than twenty students are expected to benefit from Ooni Adeyeye Eniitan Ogunwusi’s N50m scholarship awards for indigent secondary school students as part of Ojaja Education initiative.
Speaking with journalists in his palace shortly after a press briefing addressed by the programme director, Mr. Olojede Ayobami, the Oba Ogunwusi expressed his commitment to the education of the young ones, especially the less privileged.
The monarch noted that the scholarship award is just a part of the numerous programmes compressed into the initiative aimed at developing skills and academic prowess of children and youths.
Earlier, the Ojaja Education Initiative programme director, Olojede Ayobami said that Oba Adeyeye has decided to engage in providing access to quality education to the less privileged and vulnerable children from lower socio-economic backgrounds.
According to him, the N50 million scholarship award which is pivotal to the Ojaja education initiative is aimed at not only assisting the less privileged citizens of the South West, but to promote unity and good relationship amongst secondary school students and South West people in general.
To be eligible for the award according to the director, participants must be in SS3 of any government-owned secondary school in the South West, adding that the free online registration shall commence in January 2018.
The competition that is expected to be held in phases involves online registration in the six South -west states, physical qualification, where the best five competitors will emerge from each state and the final phase will produce the 20 scholarship winners.
Ayobami disclosed that the competition that will be digital based quiz will focus on testing students’ intelligence, speed, power of focus and it involve test in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, English, Account, Economics, Government, Mathematics and Current Affairs.