Thirty-one indigent undergraduate students drawn from eight universities in Lagos and Ogun States recently benefited from the 2023/2024 Rotary International District 9110 Educational and Welfare Endowment Fund (DEWEF).
Chairman, Board of Trustees, DEWEF, Yomi Adewumi, said the initiative was to assist brilliant but disadvantaged undergraduates from 200-level, and had impacted about 237 students from various universities in Lagos and Ogun States.
According to him, beneficiaries are awarded the sum of N100,000 per session, until the end of their programmes, as long as they maintain a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of Second Class Upper and above.
He said: “The selection process involves the West African Examination Council (WAEC), which conducts computer-based examination for the students, while the process is concluded with oral interviews before beneficiaries are selected.
“Beneficiaries must be 200-level students recommended by their departments. They are expected to show appreciation at the end of their programmes by carrying out the ideals of Rotary, which is impacting lives.”
The District Governor, Rotary International, District 9110, Lagos and Ogun States, Ifeyinwa Ejezie, said the beneficiaries would be monitored until they complete their courses.
The chairman of DEWEF scholarship committee, Olusegun Adewakun, said 88 applicants, sponsored by nine Rotary clubs across Lagos and Ogun States, took the examination.
According to him, 52 students were shortlisted and 31 best applicants were later chosen after an oral interview. Two of the beneficiaries, Ogunleye Ayomide, a 200-level student of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, and Quadri Motunrayo, a 300-level student of Lagos State University (LASU), studying Medicine and Surgery, said the scholarship would go a long way in seeing them through school.
