The Solomon Ladi Boro Education Endowment Fund (SLBF), has disbursed N1 million as financial support to nine indigent students in various tertiary institutions across the country.
The financial support is to enable them to carry on with their academic pursuits.
The money is being given as assistance to students that are finding it difficult to pay their school fees.
The beneficiaries are the first set to be so supported by the family of Late Solomon Ladi Boro, who passed away in 2024.
They are ; Barnabas Omolaiye, Philip Mike – Boro, Wisdom Adegbola,Taiye Ozomoge, Abiodun Faith Bamanosi, Eunice Olufunmilayo Monday and
Osebequin Rachael all of Federal University, Lokoja.
The beneficiaries also include; Jennifer Bamanosi Mosugu of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, and Ayo Bose of Prince Abubakar Audu University,Ayingba .
The beneficiaries who received N100,000 each,were picked from churches within the Anglican communion in Ogori, the hometown of the Late Solomon Ladi Boro.
The financial supports were awarded to the indigent students as part of activities to commemorate the first year anniversary of the death of Solomon Ladi Boro.
The family also promised, to sustain the Fund with #500,000 ( five hundred thousand Naira on annual basis.
The establishment of the SLBF and the disbursement of the Fund ,was in fulfilment of the pledge made by the Boro’s family to immortalise the memory of their son, Solomon.
The pledge was made during his Funeral service which held in the Cathedral Church of St. Peter, Ogori in the Anglican Diocese of OgoriMagongo, Kogi State, early last year.
Speaking on the early arrangements and disbursement of the Fund, the head of the family, Mr Emmanuel Bolaji Boro, thanked the Education Committee of the Anglican Diocese under the supervision of the retired Venerable, Edward Makafan Adegbola for a job well done.
He solicited for continued prayers for the family to enable them carry on with the pledge.
Boro, equally noted that the process is thorough and devoid of family’s intervention or influence, emphasizing that the Endowment Fund itself, is in honour of Solomon, a man he described as a lover of education and a ready help to many when he was alive.
He called on those who are yet to be identified or yet to benefit,to be patient adding that the process has come to stay and that someday, it will be their turn. (vitalnewsngr.com)
