The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi,
and the Yomi Otubela Foundation have awarded scholarship worth N30m
to six secondary school pupils.
The beneficiaries, who were selected from Lagos, Oyo, Ondo and Ondo states, will be sponsored to the university level.
Speaking during the presentation of
cheques to the beneficiaries at his palace in Ile-Ife on Wednesday, the
monarch urged more philanthropists to assist indigent pupils to receive
quality education.
According to him, quality education as the bedrock of economic and political development of any nation.
He stressed that crime rates will reduce if more youths were presented with opportunities to access quality education.
He said, “Education is very important.
What we are doing today is a very good thing which I encourage everybody
to engage in. You don’t have to be a millionaire before you sponsor the
education of an indigent pupil.
“Some of these youths who engage in
social vices wanted to be educated but they probably did not have the
opportunity to do so. I believe that the number of the youths involved
in crime will reduce drastically if we can assist them.’’
In his address, the YOF founder, Chief
Yomi Otubela, said the scholarship would expose the beneficiaries to
quality education in an ideal setting, adding that this would equip them
to be useful members of the society.
Otubela said, “We have been doing this
in the last six years. We discovered that the Ooni is doing a great job
in terms of human development and that is why we decided to partner him.
“For Kabiyesi and our foundation, we
are giving N30m worth of scholarship. We are aware that the
beneficiaries will be able to replicate this gesture in the future. The
scholarship will cover tuition, feeding and everything they need.”
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