By Ovat Abeng
A Philanthropist and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Shield Security company Ltd, Ozo Jeff Nweke has offered Scholarship to four Nnamdi Azikiwe University students in Awka, Anambra State.
He said the scholarship program is part of his contribution to ensure a better future for young Ndi-Anambra.
The event took place in Awka on Tuesday, shortly after the students where admitted into the Ozo Jeff scholarship scheme.
Handing over the sums of N1million and N1.5 million to each of the beneficiaries respectively for first quarter of the year to enable them procure necessary things for their education, Ozo Jeff, charged them to eschew cultism and other evil groups that cut human ambition short.
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He told the students namely: Ngama Hope Chidera- English language and Literary studies; Okonkwo John- Statistics; Alieze Samson- Education Management and Policy and David Emmanuel- Philosophy: “all those characteristics that paved way for you to secure this scholarship should not depart from you. In fact, I implore you all to add more to them so they will reflect in you to be better human beings as you all have the traits of being President or Governors in future.
“You have the potentials of great achievers but if you do not work hard to maximize those potentials in you, they will all perish in you”, he said.
“They can reach the zenith of their ambition if they be of good behaviour by facing their studies.
He urged them to watch their life style and peer influence and be prayerful.
“According to him, for those who have made it in life it wasn’t by mere sudden flight but through hard work because while their companions were busy sleeping, they were toiling in the dark.
On his part, the Director of Ozo Jeff Education Scholarship Scheme, Ikechukwu Chinweze in his speech said that the programme has run for two years and that Ozo Jeff has done more than this in the previous years by taking the academic responsibility of many other newly admitted students.
“The programme he said is strictly a sponsorship on education to tertiary institutions and Ozo Jeff has spent not less than N100m since its commencement.
He also explained that the scholarship offer transverses throughout the entire states of Nigeria as beneficiaries were drawn from different states.
“To qualify for the offer, the school authority of the beneficiary must be contacted to enquire about his or her socio-moral conduct and the person’s academic conduct must be screened before forwarding any successful names to the foundation.”
The beneficiaries in their separate speeches thanked Ozo Jeff for his benevolence.
“God will keep replenishing his purse and give him more courage to continue helping the downtrodden,” they added.
