Board of Trustees, Ebira Education Trust Fund, Thursday, awarded a scholarship to an indigent student to read Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) at the Federal University Lokoja, Kogi state.
The chairman, Board of Trustees of the Trust Fund, Professor Mohammed Salihu Audu, who presented the scholarship to the beneficiary, Isaac Alaba David at the NUJ Press Centre in Lokoja, Kogi state, disclosed that the scholarship which is N400, 000 is to enable the awardee kick start his course of study.
According to him, the award was an outcome of ‘Save My Soul’ message received from an individual who was offered admission to study Medicine and Surgery but could not take up the offer due to financial constraint, necessitated by the pathetic conditions of his parents.
Professor Audu, a former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, stated that the board of trustees through its selection committee headed by Professor Angela Okatahi, investigated the matter thoroughly which led to the offer of the award to Isaac Alaba David.
Speaking on the origin of the trust fund, Prof. Audu said Ebira Youth Congress (EYC) conceptualised and launched Ebira Education Trust Fund for Kogi Central youth as a potent avenue by which frontiers of knowledge could be further widened.
“The underlying rationale and beauty of the scheme is actually intended to speak to a bourgeoning crop of quality intellectuals of diverse disciplines to emerge from among our youths in the next few years courtesy of the Trust Fund.
“The core mandate of the Trust Fund does not qualify the youths to run it by themselves, which is why the BoT was carefully constituted by the same youths from across the five Local Government Councils of Kogi Central senatorial district at an enlarged EYC congress held at Okene,” he said.
While commending the financial contribution of well meaning Anebira toward the project Prof. Audu revealed that the Board has awarded scholarships to four deserving postgraduate students from Kogi state central senatorial district.
In his remark, Prof. Muhammed Suleiman Audu , the Deputy Vice Chancellor Federal University President General Ebira Youth Congress (EYC) Ateiza Obiyo Aliyu in his vote of thanks expressed appreciation to members of the Board of Trustees for rekindling hope in the mind of the youth.