Worried by the rising
poverty level in the country, a university don, Prof. Felix Chukwuneke, has
called on the Federal Government to introduce a comprehensive scholarship
scheme for pupils from primary to the secondary school level.
He said
apart from free tuition, the scholarship should cover Medicare, clothing,
transport and feeding.
Speaking
after presenting cheques worth N1.2 million to two indigent students at the
community secondary school, Olo, Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State,
who are beneficiaries of his scholarship, Chukwuneke said his call had become
imperative because according to him “many parents are too poor to train their
children in school”.
The
lucky students are Master Okorie Kosisochukwu and Miss Blessing Anigbo. They
emerged first and second positions in an examination organised to select the
most brilliant indigent students in the college.
Chukwuneke,
of the department of Dentistry, College of Medicine, University of Nigeria,
Ituku-Ozalla, Enugu State, said he decided to award scholarship to the two
students to guarantee their future and promised to extend the gesture to more
students in future.
The
dental surgeon noted that he couldn’t stop assisting the community, having been
recently presented with a chieftaincy title of Ebekue-Dike of Amandim Ezeugana,
Olo, by the traditional ruler, Igwe Harford Agana.
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