by Rachel Ogbu
Oyo State Governor, Abiola Ajimobi (Punch)
Oyo State Governor Abiola Ajimobi has presented scholarship awards worth N100m to some students of the state.
On Tuesday, the governor said the scholarships were for year 2011/2012.
Presented at the House of Chiefs, the last time scholarships were awarded by the state government was 28 years ago, reports say.
Governor Ajimobi said the occasion was memorable as it was the first time that bursary awards would be given to students in the state in a very long time.
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“Without mincing words, no nation can hope to make any meaningful progress without sound and qualitative education. Martin Luther King posited that if you want to keep a man in perpetual slavery, do not give him education,” he said.
“It is with this premise in mind that the state government, under the present administration, has always made the education of our children a high priority.
“We have touched every local government area with meaningful and pupil-oriented projects.”
According to reports, the beneficiaries of the bursary/scholarship awards were final year students of universities and polytechnics and post-graduate students from tertiary institutions in Nigeria and abroad as well as those from colleges of aviation.
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