Hope for Women in Nigeria Initiative (HOFOWEM), a pet project of the wife of Lagos State governor, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode has awarded scholarship to two candidates seeking admission into the university.
The candidates were Miss Oladunni Akisanmi and Master Victory James Agwu.
The award to the two beneficiaries is the second edition of the annual university scholarship of the education endowment fund being undertaken by HOFOWEM.
Akisanmi and Agwu were awarded for their brilliant performances in their school certificate examination and the Joint Admission Matriculation Examination (JAMB).
Presenting the scholarship at the HOFOWEM office, Oregun area of the state, Mrs. Ambode commended the students for their emergence in the selection process as beneficiaries of the award.
She added that their selection was based on their brilliant performances in their school certificate examination and JAMB.
“I congratulate you for your brilliant performance at all levels of your examination,” Mrs Ambode said.
She noted that the scholarship aside of funding the education of the bright students, would serve to encourage others that are financially deprived, to pursue their dreams with diligence.
She said, “The scholarship scheme was established to encourage indigent but brilliant underprivileged students in public secondary schools in Lagos State, to pursue degree programmes of their choice in any Nigerian higher institution of learning. It is to encourage serious students that being financially deprived is not the end of a dream.”
Mrs Ambode charged the awardees to consolidate on their efforts in order to come out with good grades.
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She enjoined them to guard against anything that would bring distraction to their studies.
“I do not want you to lose focus, but to intensify your effort. This is just the beginning, you need to concentrate on your studies, shun bad peer group influence, be good ambassadors of your families and schools and make us proud too.”
While urging them to continue to pursue their dream and aim at being the best they can be, she hinted that courses supported by the scholarship were those that addressed critical societal issues like engineering, environment, food and security, education and public health among others.
Mrs. Ambode disclosed that the HOFOWEM Education Scholarship Scheme would continue to fund the tertiary education of indigent brilliant students in Lagos State.
She said this was in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which specifically called for more scholarships for human capital development.
While appreciating the founder and HOFOWEM education team, the duo expressed joy that their efforts were not in vain.
They pledged to be great ambassadors, adding that the hope rekindled by the foundation would not diminish and neither would they give up on any challenge.
Speaking on behalf of the parents, Mr. Sunday Agwu reflected that they had given up on how to fund the education of the children despite their brilliance, noting that the intervention of the foundation changed the story.
The HOFOWEM Education Scholarship Endowment Fund gives annual scholarship to fund tertiary education of brilliant but indigent students in public secondary schools in Lagos State, in any Nigerian higher institution of learning.
