YOF Scholarship Rekindles Indigent Pupils’ hope

 

  Posted on Jan 10 2017 - 1:28am by Mojeed Alabi of New Telegraph Newspaper

The Yomi Otubela Foundation (YOF), a non-governmental organisation, has flagged off entries for the 2017 edition of its annual scholarship programmes for primary and secondary school pupils across the federation.

Addressing a press conference, the Founder of the Foundation and National Deputy President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS), Chief Yomi Otubela, said the foundation would award scholarships to seven indigent, but brilliant pupils in various classes to study up to university level.

He said the application forms, which had since opened on December 21, will close on February 24, and, therefore, called on interested candidates and unsuccessful candidates in the 2016 edition of the scholarship awards to register and prepare for the examination.

 Chief 'Yomi Otubela - Founder

 

Otubela added that the qualifying examination for the scholarship, which will only test the applicants’ Mathematics knowledge, is in recognition of the importance of Mathematics to science and technology, as the prerequisite for the desired change in the country.

The educationist, who said the registration for the examination is free, added that the pupils can download past questions of the examination from the website of the foundation. He said: “Registration had commenced in December and will close on February 24.

The portal for the registration exercise is now accessible and the examination has been fixed for April 14. Pupils from age seven and above can register from any part of the country. There are examination centres nationwide and candidates do not have to come to Lagos to sit for the examination. “I lost my dad as a young boy and my experience while growing up prompted me to give back to the society.

During my final year in secondary school, the registration cost for my examination was N100 and my mother could not afford it. It was a family friend who bailed me out. It took the intervention of a lady who was a member of my mother’s church to pay my registration fees.

I would have ended up as a tailor, but she paid the fees.” In her address, the Coordinator of YOF, Mrs. Ololade Shodiya said the scholarship covers tuition, boarding facilities, books, feeding and sundry cost of the recipients, adding that the beneficiaries of the 2016 edition have since resumed at the school and will be trained till their graduation from the universities of their choice.