Oyo South: Financial Pundit, Adekanmbi Splashes N5M on Indigent, Brilliant Students from Ibadan, Ibarapa
Oyo South: Financial Pundit, Adekanmbi Splashes N5M on Indigent, Brilliant Students from Ibadan, Ibarapa.
Oyo South Senatorial Hopeful, on the platform of the All Progressives Congress(APC), come 2023, Honourable Bimbo Adekanmbi has flagged off bursary awards, valued at N5 Million, to indigent but brilliant students in tertiary institutions across Ibadan and Ibarapa Lands, in Oyo-State.
Former Commissioner for Finance, Budget and Planning in Oyo state, Adekanmbi made the disclosure to newsmen in Ibadan on Friday during a discussion about the Oyo state educational system and his free UTME forms and scholarship programmes which he started in 2019.
The Ibadan-born financial pundit hinted that arrangement has been concluded for indigent but brilliant students of tertiary institutions of Oyo South to get rewarded with bursaries, with a promise to sustain the N5 million Bursary Awards annually.
Adekanmbi stated that the gesture was to assist parents to reduce the hardship they face while training their wards at the higher institutions of learning, adding that one of the ways he believes he can give back to society is to assist needy students who struggle to receive education.
“Some of the aims of the Bursary Award are to ensure that students are committed to their studies and respect the rules and regulations of their institutions. Moreover, it is to relieve the burden of levies payments on parents.
“Aside government’s effort, individuals who are so inclined should assist in the education section of our state. Many students are ready to learn, brilliant but indigent — it will be a loss to family, community even to the state if such talents and skills got wasted, so that is why my ‘BIMBO ADEKANMBI EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVE’ in the past few years rose up to the challenge of assisting students with financial challenges.
“In 2019, we sponsored 100 students to the Oyo State Technical University, Ibadan on the ‘YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND CONTRACT RECRUITMENT PROGRAMME’ and when graduated, we set them up.
“Annually since 2019, we have also been paying for UTME forms and offering it for free to over 300 candidates with a full Scholarship in Federal University of choice of a candidate with the highest UTME scores from each Local Government Areas of Oyo South.
“We have commenced the scholarship with 2019 beneficiaries while waiting for Admission Letters of those that sat for 2021 UTME.
“To add to all our existing programmes, we are introducing this bursary programme. We are starting with N5 Million Naira, targeted at brilliant but indigent students in higher schools of learning from Ibarapa and Ibadan, soon we will make it across the state,” Adekanmbi stated.
The overall objective of all the educational and empowerment initiatives implemented by Adekanmbi all through the years, is to create an army of capable, brilliant youth, able to thrive in the fiercely competitive global landscape.
To be eligible, applicants must be indigenes of Oyo state and must show proof of Ibadan or Ibarapa Local Government of origin.
To apply, eligible and interested students including Federation of Ibadan Student’s Union ( FIBSU National Council ) and Federation of Ibarapa Student’s Association ( FIBSA National Council ) that wish to obtain form for their bonafide members are to contact 0904307042, 08159547485 to collect ( free) bio-data forms, collection of forms starts from Monday 22nd November and to be submitted not later than Thursday, 16th of December, 2021.
For submission, each applicant must attach clear copies of valid school Identity Card, Admission letter and and print out of current Semester Result with a CGPA not lower than 3.5.
