By Hudu Yakubu, Abuja
The University of Lagos Alumni Association, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), chapter on Thursday, awarded scholarship to about 28 Senior Secondary school students in 6 Area Councils.
The scholarship award covers school fees, levies, West African Examinations Council, (WAEC) and National Examinations Council (NECO), exams.
Vice Chairperson of the Association, the FCT branch. Mrs. Julia Davis, while speaking to journalists said, 28 brilliant students from the six Area Councils, on Abuja, were carefully selected for their performance.
She said, “And these 28 students, that we were given the award today were the ones that came top”.
She noted that among those that were selected were children with special needs, and the association is very proud of them.
She said, “So it’s our joy that we are seeing this kind of improvement in our society, that even though they have this impairment, you know, they are still able to stand with their pair.
“And so we are happy to make them also recipients of this. Well, the amount that we have given to each of them is to take care of their NECO exams, their WAEC and school fees for the year . As a matter of fact, I didn’t tell you at the start that this scholarship award that we’re here giving today, it’s a yearly event for my alumni association”
Dr. Danlami Hayyois the Mandate Secretary for Education who was represented at the occasion by Director/Secretary, FCT secondary Education Board, Hajiya Fatima Gambo Babba, commended the kind gesture of the association and noted that lots of students cannot afford to pay their fees but these scholarship would cushion some of challenges of their parents.
She lamented, “Some students finds it difficult, to pay their school fees, and this gesture will go a long way in alleviating the suffering of some parents”.
She therefore urged other non governmental organizations and individual to replicate what UNILAG Alumni just did and take up some of the challenges, that some students have, it would go a long way.
Emmanuel Emele, the Chairman of scholaship commiittee, of the association streesed that their focus is on indigent students.
He added that for now the association is concentrating on only SS3 students.
And this scholarship award has been on, for the past 3years and it will continue.