The Paramount Ruler of Emevor
in Isoko North Local Government Area, HRM Francis Onovughakpor Ekhama has got a
huge surprise favour.
Recently the very rural
Emevor community rolled out its drums to celebrate the opening of a Study
Centre of the National Open University of Nigerian, NOUN during which the Vice
Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Vincent Tenebe awarded the centenarian monarch a
limitless scholarship to study to any level of his choice at the institution.
But Prof. Tenebe said:
“I mean every word of it.
The Odion has to start burning his candle now to earn a degree free of charge.
He is not the first to be so challenged. The Awujale of Ijebu Land, Ogun State,
Oba Sikiru who is 80 years old is a student of NOUN. He would soon graduate.
This scholarship to His
Majesty, added to the opening of a NOUN center at Emevor today, are all in our
efforts at demystifying university education in Nigeria.”
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