By Emmanuel Kehinde
Ilorin- – Professor Wale Sulaiman the Asiwaju Ewe of Ajase-Ipo and the President of RNZ Foundation, has awarded different categories of scholarships to indigent students selected across the sixteen local government areas of Kwara State.
The awards include sponsoring of 250 candidates for the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB and Twelve Tertiary Education scholarships to the brilliant indigent students.
The scholarships were given through his non-governmental organisation, RNZ Foundation.
The 2022 edition of the RNZ Scholars Programme was launched in Ajase-Ipo over the weekend.
During the event, twelve out of the over 500 students who benefited from the 2021 RNZ Foundation JAMB Scholarship were awarded the RNZ Tertiary Education Scholarship to study in their chosen Universities and Polytechnics.
In a keynote address at the event, Professor Wale Sulaiman, a philanthropist and renowned Neuro- Spinal Surgeon,reiterated his commitment to human capacity development, especially for the teeming youths through quality education.
While noting that the foundation had invested millions of Naira in securing careers of hundreds of underprivileged students in Kwara State to ease the financial burden on their parents, he charged the beneficiaries to remain focused.
According to the foundation’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Boladale Sodiq, “the RNZ Scholars Programme was introduced in 2021 with the aim to offer educational opportunities to bright but less privileged students in the state and to breed excellent scholars that would be agents of societal development in their various fields of study.”
“The maiden edition offered JAMB scholarships to Five hundred students across the sixteen council areas of Kwara state.”
The RNZ Foundation, a non-profit organization operates as a corporate social responsibility unit of RNZ Global Ltd, a leading hospital development, operations and management company in Sub-Saharan African countries, under the benevolent leadership of Professor Wale Sulaiman and his wife Mrs. Patricia Sulaiman.
The event was attended by hundreds of beneficiary students and parents, RNZ coordinators and special guests, including Alhaji Oladipo Kadiri, Shawo of Ajase-Ipo, Mr Rasheed Sulaiman, Mr. Tajudeen Muhammad, Mr. Sani Rasaq, Representative of Ajase-Ipo Decedent Union, Representative of Igbomina Youth Assembly and other well wishers.
