The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University Chapter, has empowered seven indigent students of the tertiary institution in its 2023 indigent student scholarship awards.
The screening of the applicants for the scholarship was coordinated by Professor Teleem Asafa.
The Chairman, ASUU LAUTECH, Babatunde Akeem Lawal, said that the Union remained committed to encouraging brilliant students to become better persons in society by supporting their education.
According to him, ASUU would continue to champion the course of qualitative public education and at the same time pursue the important welfare issues for her members
The Chairman of the Union further noted that while the Union takes their students seriously, it would continue to spend from its meagre resources to improve the life chances of brilliant but indigent students.
“Poverty should not deny brilliant students the opportunity to access and pursue their education. For us in the Union, we fight for qualitative public education so that the children of the poor will not be blocked from becoming future leaders and great thinkers of the society,” he said.
The beneficiaries included Akerele Ifeoluwa David, (N200,000), Food Science; Jokotola, Funmilola Adeloyin, (N200,000), Medicine; Akanbi Kehinde Y. (N100,000), Computer Engineering; Abdulkabir Islamiyat Adenike, (N100,000), Agric Economics; Olorode Christianah Oluwatoyin, (N100,000), Agric Economics; Abideen Fathia Ajoke, (N100,000), Biochemistry; and Oladeebo Nurat Oyindamola, (N100,000), Chemistry.
The elated students thanked the Union for supporting their education, promising that they would continue to work to make the best of the opportunity granted them.
