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    Chude and Ego Foundation Announce Scholarship for Uga Professors’ Vacation 2021 Beneficiaries

    Chude and Ego Foundation sponsored the 2021 The Uga Professors’ Vacation programme. The programme drew to a close on the 3rd of September with about seventy senior secondary school students as beneficiaries of the month-long event.

    Founder of Chude and Ego Foundation, Mr. Nonso Okpala (CEO/GMD VFD Group PLC), announced during the event that the  best student from the 2021 Vacation programme will be rewarded with a tertiary education scholarship through the Foundation alongside various rewards for the Uga Professors, teachers, and other students who participated in the 2021 edition.

    He said further that his decision to sponsor the vacation lessons was borne out of interest to contribute to education and healthcare delivery to better the lives of the people and society.

    He promised to sponsor the university programme of any product of the vacation lessons who is able to achieve highest performance in the subsequent University entrance examinations and encouraged the students to take their studies serious to leverage from the opportunity. He also advised them to read to be providers of help in the future and to give back to the society when they are established.

    ” The motive behind the sponsorship is to provide opportunity for students to attain success. We are planning ways to put people up and and support people who are planning to be greater in their careers. It is good to do well by giving back to the society.

    “My foundation which is Chude and Ego Foundation, built in memory of my parents would provide best university support to the best the student that would get the highest in JAMB and if they get admission on the basis of that JAMB result, we would offer full sponsorship. We will also buy jamb form for the best 20 students that would emerge from the programme.”

    “I’m quite positive about the event of today and I’m very optimistic that in 10 to15 years, the children we train today will come back to train others. If you do not contribute to the people in the society, that means you are a failure, ” Mr. Nonso Okpala said.

    No fewer than seventy Senior Secondary 1 and 2 in public and private schools in Uga, Aguata council area were exposed to intensive academic lessons and career talks, courtesy of Uga Professors, on behalf of Uga Improvement Union during the one month long vacation lessons at Uga Boys Secondary School, Uga, Aguata Council Area.

    In his remarks, the pioneer sponsor of the programme, Chief Azubuike Okpalaoka noted that Education is vital in life of every individual irrespective of profession, class or gender even as he charged the students to strive for excellence always in whatever endeavour they found themselves in Life.

    The closing event which held in Uga Boys Secondary School, Uga, was well attended by dignitaries and exceptional personalities including the Chairman of the occasion, Chief Godwin Okolo; members of Uga Professors such as Professors Christian Ezeigbo, a retired Surveyor, Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, an award winning author with English and Literary Studies Department, Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike, Ebonyi State, and Chinyere Okunna, first West-African female Professor of Mass Communication with Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, amongst others.

    Launched in 2013, the Uga Professors’ Vacation has continued to empower senior secondary school students with intensive academic lessons and career talks.

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