Underprivileged Scholarship Award (USA)

Announcing 10 Recipients (June 2008)

 (2 from each of the 5 Towns of Oji-River LG, Enugu State, Nigeria)

PROLOGUE: OPF underprivileged scholarship award is a part of the Oji-River People’s Forum Community Development Project, launched on September 22, 2007, in Houston, Texas, USA. This scholarship will pay the [10] recipients’ full tuition fee for the entire four-year bachelor’s degree program in Nigeria.

OUR GRATITUDE: We, the members of OPF (see below), owe a big debt of gratitude to those who donated to this project. Thank you very much for helping us to open the gates of opportunity and hope to our youth.  Needless to say, our community will harvest the fruits of your generosity in about four years from now.  May God bless you!

Recipients of the Scholarship

I. Achi
Mr. Onyemachi Ifeanyi Richmond
Major:  Electronic Engineering (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
 
Mr. Madu Raphael Chukwuka
Major: Microbiology (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
 
II. Akpugoeze
Mr. Madubuko Emeka Christian
Major: Engineering (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
 
Mr. Ozoemena Ernest Izuchukwu
Major: Biochemistry (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
 
III. Awlaw
Ms. Adaora Maureen Iloh
Major: English (Nasarawa State University)
 
To be Announced.
 
IV. Inyi
Ms. Grace Orah Okwudili
Major: Marketing (St. Paul’s University College – UNN Affiliate)
 
Mr. Onwurah Okwudili O.
Major: Law (University of Nigeria, Nsukka)
 
V. Ugwuoba
Ms. Chioma Adaobi Obi
Major: Parasitology (Enugu State University of Science and Technology)
 
Mr. Nwokolo Paulinus Chukwuebuka
Major: Industrial Physics (Anambra State University)