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By Young E. Freeborn, Warri
Eight students, selected from various primary schools in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, have been awarded scholarships by the Rotary Club of Ughelli Metropolis, District 9141 in conjunction with Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation.
The scholarship covers the boarding and tuition fees, boarding materials, other school requirements and books for the students who recently gained admission into junior secondary schools. The scholarships also included Junior Secondary School 3 and WAEC and/or NECO enrollment fees when they get to JSS 3 and SSS 3 classes respectively.
The eight students who scaled through the final screening test and got 6 years of scholarships from JSS1 to SS3 are: Agama Addition Jesuovie, from Mariere Primary School, Evwreni; Eseoghene Happy (Mukoro Mowoe Primary School, Evwreni); Dennis Oghenefejiro (Unenurhie Primary School, Unenurhie); Ibru Mercy (Owhowha Primary School, Otor-Ogor); Ebrudu Faustina (Agbarha Primary School, Agbarha-Otor); Oghenerohwo Anthony Treasure (Orogun Primary School, Orogun); Badawusi Dorcas (Michael & Cecilia Demonstration School, Agbarha-Otor) and Emegboro Oke (Glorious Group of Schools, Ughelli).
The beneficiaries, made up of four girls and four boys, would proceed to Anglican Girls Grammar School and Bishop Agori-Iwe Memorial Boys School respectively in Ughelli.
This brings the total beneficiaries of the scholarship scheme to 35 since its inception in 2018.
Our correspondent reports that three beneficiaries, who got their scholarship awards while in SS 2 in 2020, have completed their SSS 3 examinations at Government College, Ughelli.
Founder of Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation and major benefactor of the scheme, Rotarian Samuel Adjogbe, while congratulating the successful students at the scholarship award event, enjoined them to be studious and good ambassadors of their family and the communities they hail from.
He tasked them to use the scholarship programme to lay a good academic foundation for their tomorrow, noting that but for limited financial resources the scheme would have been expanded to accommodate more beneficiaries.
Rotarian Adjogbe explained that the scheme was borne out of the sheer determination of his foundation and the Rotary Club of Ughelli Metropolis District 9141 to better the lots of some of the brightest students who were less privileged in the society.
“I want to commend the efforts of the members of the scholarship board that went round different schools within our catchment areas, where they did the initial filtrations in collaboration with the headmasters/headmistresses in the various primary schools and presented the students to the Common Entrance Examinations. It would have been difficult to select deserving students.
“The intent of this scholarship programme is to identify intelligent students that could have been forced out of school because their parents do not have the funds to see them through secondary schools.
“Some of us had difficulties going to school in our days and it was the innate determination to go to school that has brought some of us to where we are now. I therefore, congratulate you all for presenting yourselves as ambassadors to your immediate families, to the primary schools you are passing out from, and now ambassadors to the Rotary Club of Ughelli Metropolis family and Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation,” he said.
While encouraging the students to take their studies serious, Adjogbe said: “Ensure you take your study seriously since you are going into a more competitive educational world and anybody that fails one of the term’s examinations is out of the program, because we will not spend money on somebody to repeat a class.”
On her part, the chairman of the scholarship board, Rotarian Judith Enamuotor commended the Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation for rendering unquantifiable services to humanity and making Rotary proud.
She added that apart from the scholarship scheme, Adjogbe was also contributing to other Rotary International projects and have made Rotary Club Ughelli Metropolis a force to be reckoned with in the whole country and global world.
The former education commissioner in Delta State also charged the students to make use of the great opportunity given to them.
“Strive and study hard to come out with first positions and we would be proud of you and your schools, while Rotary Club and the Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation will also be proud of you,” she added.
Other board members who were present at the scholarship award ceremony which took place at the Evwreni home of Engr Dr Samuel Adjogbe, included Rotarian Grace Akpodiete, Rotarian Clementina Ejabefio, Rotarian Monday Ugbenu and Rotarian Paul Aloba for the Rotary Club of Ughelli Metropolis while Mr Fidelis Adjogbe and Hon Desmond Okpako Duke, represented the Engr. Dr. Samuel Adjogbe Foundation.
