Ex-student gifts borehole, scholarships to FUTA

• Published date: 02 February 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

Aworker with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Dr. Gbenga Owolabi, has given back to his alma mater, the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), by donating a borehole and providing scholarship for 50 students.

Owolabi provided the scholarship through the Renaissance Social Support and Developments (RSSD), an initiative that also takes care of the poor through feeding programme.

Those that benefited from the scholarship comprises 23 indigent students and 27 students with the highest CGPA in the previous academic session

Owolabi, who graduated as one of the best students from the Department of Physics, said his gesture was to ease financial burden of the beneficiaries.

He stated that 500-level students in the 'brilliant students' category would get N50,000 each, beneficiaries in the 200-level to 400-level within same category would get N20,000 each while the 'indigent students' category would received N20,000 each.

Owolabi stated that future edition of the scholarship scheme would expand beyond the School of Physical Sciences.

According to him, 'This will not be the last award. I promise we will look at cutting across the entire institution.

'My passion for academic excellence has engineered...