59 OAU Students Awarded Scholarship Worth N3.5m

Fifty-nine students of the Obafemi Awolowo
University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has benefited
from a scholarship award worth N3.5m.
sponsored by the OAU Muslim Graduates’
Association.
This was during the annual reunion convention
of the association held at the university.
The National President of the association, Prof.
Abdul Egbewole, who noted that previous
beneficiaries of the scholarship programme had
performed excellently, said the organisation had
given scholarships worth N17.56m to students of
the institution since inception.
He said the association, founded about two
decades ago, was aimed at educating the public
on social ills.
In response to this gesture, the Deputy Vice-
Chancellor (Academics) of OAU, Prof. Ayobami
Salami, said, “For many years they have been
consistent and exceptional in awarding
scholarships to students. If we have five or six of
them, the story will not be the same.”