Professor Olu Akeusola Foundation has again this year honoured 18 indigent students with scholarship awards worth thousands of naira. Speaking at the 2016 award presentation held at Michael Otedola College for Primary Education, MOCPED, Noforija, Epe, on Monday, the Chairman of the foundation, Dr. Folashade Ojetunde said the scholarship award was organised yearly to mark the birth date of the Provost of the college, Prof. Olu Akeusola. She disclosed that the awardees was selected having top their classes in their various institutions. Explaining that the award has over the years helped indigent students to achieve their academic pursuit, she urged the students to continue in their feat and very soon they will be among the top flyers. Earlier in his remarks, the celebrant, Prof. Olu Akeusola said the foundation was born out of his desire to give to the society who made him who he is today.
"If I was not opportune to win scholarships from the then Lagos government led by Michael Otedola and from the federal government nobody will know me and I might not have become what I am today that is why I decided to give to the society that made me," he stated. The professor of Comparative Language urged the awardees to always aim high and the sky will be their beginning. The scholarship awards cuts across Primary, secondary, Tertiary institutions and students with special needs. The primary category received N10, 000, secondary got N20, 000 each, tertiary which is divided into two had students in colleges of education receiving N30, 000 and others from the university received N40, 000 each. Students with special needs also got N40, 000. Responding on behalf of the awardees, Miss Gbemisola Sodipe from University of Ibadan said the award had given them hope and would encourage them to do more. Thanking the foundation for the gesture, she said the life of Prof. Akeusola who d espite no help was able to toil and turn out great is indeed a motivation to them all. "We are so glad for what you did for us today and in future you will be proud of us all," she said.
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