By Okechukwu Onuegbu
Security expert and Chief Executive Officer, Blue Shield Security Company Limited, Ọzọ Jeff Nweke, Tuesday, offered ₦4.5m scholarships to four students of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State.
The beneficiaries are Ngama Hope Chidera- Department of English language and Literary studies; Okonkwo John- Department of Statistics; Alieze Samson- Education Management and Policy; and David Emmanuel of the Department of Philosophy.
They received ₦1.5m, ₦1m, ₦1m and ₦1m respectively aimed at enabling them to procure necessary things for their education, and freely reach the zenith of their desired profession without any kind of distractions.
Nweke, while presenting the scholarship through his Ozo Jeff Education Scholarship System, a Nongovernmental organisation, charged the students to shun corrupt practices, cultism and other societal vices and be focused to achieve desired results.
"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, or some other great achievers if you maximize those potentials in you," he said.
On his part, the Director of Ozo Jeff Education Scholarship Scheme, Mr Ikechukwu Chinweze, described the programme as a blessing in disguise, adding that it has within the past two years uplifted the status of qualified tertiary institutions students from all over the country.
According to him, the benefactor who had impacted positively on the society in many ways, had through the foundation ensured that the beneficiaries were students who distinguished themselves academically with good moral and socio-moral conducts.
The beneficiaries took time to eulogise and pray for the benefactor. One of them, Master Okonkwo John offered Scholarship to read Statistics thanked him for finding them worthy to spend his hard earned money in their academic pursuit and prayed that God will keep replenishing his purse and give him more courage to continue helping the downtrodden.
Ngama Hope for English language and Literary studies in thanking the Benefactor said: "This is just the only hope I have for attending my academic pursuit and fulfilling my aspirations. I can only say ‘Thank you’ to our life saver, destiny helper, an angel in disguise.
"You know, I started paying my school fees from primary three through hair braiding because a lot of things happened which made me to move from home and by staying with people as a house help just to go to school. This is a major breakthrough for me, it’s a major push because I never knew that I am going to further my education", she narrated tearfully.