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A full of 877 secondary schoolhouse students and undergraduates connected Thursday received scholarships from the Bayo and Bunmi Babalola Foundation (BBBF) successful Kwara State.
The co-founder of BBBF, Engr. Sunday Babalola, gave retired the scholarships to the beneficiaries during the 10th variation of the strategy successful Omu-Aran, Irepodun section authorities country of the state.
Babalola said that the beneficiaries included 103 students successful Junior Secondary School people 3, 140 students successful Senior Secondary School class, 338 different secondary schoolhouse students, and 296 undergraduates successful tertiary institutions.
He added that scholarships for SS3 and JSS3 covered their introspection fees and mean charges, portion the scholarships for undergraduates covered their tuition and different expenses.
He stated that with the existent 877 and 2,504 beneficiaries from the archetypal variation to the past 9 editions, nary less than 3,381 secondary schoolhouse students and undergraduates had benefitted from scheme.
Babalola commended his wife, Mrs Christiana Bunmi Babalola, who is simply a co-founder and co-sponsor of the scheme, their children, the organising committee, spiritual and accepted rulers arsenic good arsenic different radical progressive successful the medication of the strategy from its inception to the 10th edition.
He said it was disheartening that Nigeria is inactive ranked precocious among countries with precocious out-of-school children successful spite of the humongous magnitude announced by successive governments, oth astatine the national and the authorities levels, connected acquisition investment.
Noting that the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) stated that Nigeria has 20.2 cardinal out-of-school children, the philanthropist called for concerted efforts of each stakeholders to code the challenge.
He peculiarly called connected the authorities to beryllium live to its acquisition responsibilities, adding that nary federation tin turn much than its acquisition status.
He besides decried the precocious unemployment and underemployment level arsenic good arsenic economical challenges facing Nigerians, particularly the out-of-school children.
Babalola said determination was the request for authorities to put much successful acquisition successful Kwara state.
He called for merit successful the recruitment of acquisition unit to amended connected the prime of education.
In her remarks, Mrs Christiana Bunmi Babalola expressed gratitude to God for sustaining the programme for a decennary contempt economical challenges.
She commended her husband, the organising committee for their unwavering committedness to younker improvement done education.
The Olomu of Omu-Aran, Oba AbdulRaheem Adeoti praised the instauration for its contributions to acquisition improvement successful the state.
He said: “Those who usage their resources to assistance others are the existent rich”, adding that Engineer Babalola has brightened galore homes done this assistance initiative.
Similarly, the Olusin of Isanlu-Isin, Oba Solomon Oloyede, described the foundation’s efforts arsenic a exemplary for community-driven acquisition empowerment.
The nationalist president of Omu-Aran Development Association, Mr. Omoniyi Adeyeye, urged different affluent Indigenes to emulate the Babalolas.
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