No less than 20 beneficiaries of the Ikechukwu Ezeugwu foundation scholarship programme have received their tuition fees for the new academic year.
The beneficiaries that have been in the scheme for over three years each, received their cheques at the foundation’s office in Enugu, for the 2023/2024 academic session.
In his remarks at the presentation ceremony, the Founder/CEO of the foundation, Dr. Ikechukwu Ezeugwu opined that anyone blessed by God should know that the proceeds of his blessings are not meant for him and his immediate family alone.
He charged the beneficiaries to always believe in themselves as that’s one of the virtues that will make them excel in their academics
“I want to encourage everyone that if I could make it, all of you can make it. My father was a Chief, he was not poor but had 28 children. I trekked four kilometers and rode on bicycle to go to school, yet I made it up to Ph.D, I later went to Harvard. Bear in mind that 95 percent of what you are is what you wanted to be” Ezeugwu mentored.
He urged the beneficiaries to utilize the opportunity very well by ensuring that they read in the school.
Some of the beneficiaries that are drawn from different institutions and states of Nigeria, expressed their happiness to the foundation and her father and prayed to God to continue blessing him.
One of the beneficiaries and a fifth year student of Radiography, Mr. Emmanuel Eze said that God sent the founder of the Foundation, Dr. Ikechukwu Ezeugwu to fulfill his dream of attaining a tertiary education.
According to Eze, “I had interest in University education but I lost my father when I was in JSS2. After my secondary school, I got a University admission but my mother could not afford it for me. She was crying when Hon. Ezeugwu came to succour. If not for Ikechukwu Ezeugwu I won’t be where I’m today. God has used him on me and God will continue to bless him and his family.”
Eze urged fellow beneficiaries of the foundation’s magnanimity to remember to extend similar gesture if God bless them after their education.
Desmond Mamah said he is a fourth year student of the same Radiography department in the University of Nigeria. He said he got the scholarship award in 2019 which he confessed, has been very beneficial to him and his family. He prayed for continued growth and expansion of the foundation.
A widow, Mrs Stella Odoh came to represent her daughter, Uche Ohabuenyi, who is a final year medical student and was unavoidably absent. She said: “I have benefited from this foundation, if not for them I would have died. My husband died when my children were all in school studying different professional courses.
“I broke down because I couldn’t coupe with all my children in the school. I was crying when the foundation came to my relief. Ikechukwu Ezeugwu has been doing all these with the support of his wife and they will live long.
“I urge all the beneficiaries who have graduated to come together as children of Ikechukwu Ezeugwu and his wife to support them and boost the foundation scholarship scheme.”
