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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