38 Secondary School Students Win Scholarship Award in Nigeria’s Kwara State

A sum of 38 secondary school students recently became beneficiaries of the Akogun Educational Support Initiative (AESI) scholarship award in Nigeria’s Kwara State.

The students had participated in a debate competition on the causes of and the solutions to the ethnic crisis in Nigeria. Two participants were drawn from five secondary schools in the Ifelodun local government council area of the state to compete.

The schools include; FOMWAN Comprehensive College, Okeode, Agbona Secondary School, Share, Oke-ode Grammar School, Oke-ode and Government Secondary School, Babanla.

FOMWAN Comprehensive College, Oke-ode came first with a total point of 70 per cent, while Agbona High School, Share and Government Secondary School Babanla, were the first and second runners up with 63 per cent and 46 per cent, respectively while Oke-Ode Grammar School, Oke-ode, had 48 per cent.

The scholarship award was organised by the publisher of Ilorin-based Fresh Insight Newspaper, Comrade Abdulrasheed Akogun.

Speaking at the event at Oke- ode town, Comrade Akogun noted that the programme was organised to boost the academic excellence of the students of the area.

He noted that:

“It is high time the private individuals who are well-to-do in the country complement government’s efforts in moving education forward in the country.”

Furthermore, he stressed the need for the Nigerian government at all levels, to increase the allocation being earmarked for the education sector and provide the needed infrastructure for teachers to boost the standard and quality of education in Nigeria.