ASUU gives N400,000 scholarship to Ebonyi indigent students
Written by admin on July 12, 2024
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Thursday, gave scholarship grants to two students of the Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, to the tune of N200,000 each.
The two beneficiaries, Ms Onwe Emmanuella C. and Chukwuemeka Ogar P. were final-year students of Medicine and Surgery at the EBSU.
Presenting the cheques to the students, in Abakaliki the ASUU Chairman, Ebonyi State University chapter, Dr. Okechukwu Igwenyi, said the beneficiaries were selected based on some stringent but transparent determinable parameters.
He observed it was wrong to blackmail the ASUU as a body known for only strikes and industrial actions, adding “We are here to inform the public that apart from fighting for improved funding and protect the autonomy of universities, we also care for students by providing annual scholarship awards to successful indigent students from all the public universities in Nigeria.”
There is no gainsaying the fact that the ruling class is surreptitiously making education very expensive and unaffordable by common Nigerians. School fees, meals, consumables and other sundry expenses have become so expensive and beyond the reach of a common man such that students who refuse to drop out have been pushed into unthinkable ventures to stay on campus and acquire the necessary university education.
“The terrible excruciating economic conditions students and parents are subjected to, has occasioned a high rate of drop out of diligent and intelligent students due to poverty and frustration.
Igwenyi expressed concerns over the deplorable conditions of students welfare, security and the depressed and unpredictable national economy which has compelled some students to seek for other distractive sources of income to afford their school fees and other basic needs.
Currently, most students do not know what Bursary award by states and local governments , as it were , is all about and possibly do not understand that an ordinary student can win a scholarship or grant on merit.”
