The Ooni of Ife Oba Enitan Ogunwusi has made Arrangements for about 20 indigent secondary school students to benefit from the N50million scholarship scheme which is tagged “Ojaja Education Initiative.”
The monarch who disclosed on Wednesday evening during a chat with journalists in his palace said the target of the scholarship scheme was to reach the unreachable and the underprivileged students in the society.
Oba Ogunwusi equally called on wealthy Nigerians, corporate entities and Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to come to the aid of poor and intelligent students, who desired to pursue their educational programmes, but lack financial resources.
Earlier, the programme director of Ojaja Education Initiative (OEI), Mr Olojede Ayobami, observed that Oba Ogunwusi felt the urge to get engaged in providing access to quality education to less privileged and vulnerable children from lower socio-economic background.
Mr. Auobami said, the N50m. scholarship award which is critical to the Ojaja Education Initiative was aimed at not only assisting the less privileged citizens of the South West but to promote unity and the good relationship amongst secondary school students and South West people in general.
On the eligibility of students for the scholarship scheme, Ayobami maintained that participants must be in SS3 of any government-owned secondary school in the South West, stressing that free registration online for the scheme will commence in January 2018.
The competition that is expected to be held in phases involves registration online in the six Southwest states, physical qualification where the best five competitors will emerge from each state and the final phase will produce the 20 scholarship winners.
Ayobami further explained that the competition that will be digital based quiz will focus testing student’s intelligence, speed, power of focus and it involve test in Physics, Biology, Chemistry, English, Account, Economics, Government, Mathematics and Current Affairs.
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