(Students With Scholarship Fund. Photo Credit: Nation News)
No fewer than 31 students of Osun State University have received a combined scholarship of ₦10.65 million from Nigerian diaspora groups based in the United States.
The funds were disbursed by two groups: the Osun Development Forum Texas, which awarded ₦100,000 each to 21 students, and the West Africa Gasline Company, which provided ₦855,500 to 10 students across various faculties of the institution.
Speaking at the distribution ceremony, Vice-Chancellor Professor Clement Adebooye commended the gesture and noted that government funding alone cannot adequately sustain quality university education, making partnerships with external stakeholders essential.
“This ceremony is part of academic rituals which celebrate excellence and value knowledge.
Individuals are singled out and celebrated for what they delivered to the institution, what they bring from other sources,” he said.
Osun Development Forum President Alhaji Kazeem Adetunji said the organisation, a non-profit socio-cultural group based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of the United States, has spent 27 years contributing to the development of Osun State.
He said the forum has provided approximately 600 scholarships and endowments to students across Nigerian universities since 2016, installed 19 motorised boreholes to improve access to clean water across the state since 2018, and reached over 1,500 residents through a medical outreach initiative in 2023.
