15,000 students benefit from Delta bursary/scholarship scheme
The Delta State Scholarship Board (DSSB) has disclosed that a total of 14,641 students have so far benefited from the state’s scholarship/bursary scheme.
The chairman of DSSB, Sam Nwa Igunbor, who disclosed this in an interview with our reporter in Asaba at the weekend, explained that the grant would enable indigenes of the state acquire the best possible knowledge, skill and training needed to play a great part in moving the state forward, adding that good education is not for the benefit of the individual beneficiaries but also for the society because ~education makes people good citizen.
Dr. Igumbor said that the state government would continue to sustain the scholarship scheme, in spite of the current economic down turn, in deference to Governor Okowa’s inclination to academic excellence, adding that over 14,614 beneficiaries of the scheme were enrolled in various tertiary educational institutions the country.
He said that beneficiary of the scheme also cut across all academic spheres for eligible students to study in approved institutions of home and abroad, even as he stressed that the current administration of Governor Okowa was committed to supporting the students in every possible way to enable them acquire university degree.
Dr. Igumbor however enjoined all Delta students to always take their studies very serious, urging the beneficiaries to embrace hard work and shun cultism, which he described as the fastest killer of students vision and goals and admonished the beneficiaries to desist from any act that is cable of truncating their academic careers, noting that the road to success has no short cut but only recognizes determination and perseverance.
He lauded the tireless efforts of Govenor Okowa, whose interesting education, he said, has necessitated the renovation of three technical schools in the state and the introduction of Youth Agricultural Empowerment Programme (YAGEP) and the Skill Training Empowerment
Programme (STEP) to provide employment for the teeming youths in the state.
Meanwhile, Asaba community of Delta State has called for a public cemetery in the city, the upgrade of facilities at the Anwai campus of
Delta State University (DELSU), the construction of more access roads within and around the state capital, the effective maintenance of the drains attached to newly constructed roads in the area and for an end to unregulated sand quarrying in the vicinity of residential places.
The appeal was contained in an address presented to the state governor, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, during his courtesy visit to the Asagba of Asaba, Obi (Prof) Chike Edozie, in the course of his recent tour of Oshimili South local government area of the state, when he commissioned and inspected projects as well held a town hall meeting with stakeholders.
