Delta State governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan has given out the sum of N500 Million to 100 first class graduates of universities in various discipline for the year 2013, under the First Class Graduate Scholarship Scheme. This was even as governor Uduaghan challenged parents to ensure proper upbringing of their children.
He emphasised that parents owe it as a duty to ensure that their children and wards are properly brought up in order to achieve a better family unit and better organized society.
Speaking at the presentation of the scholarship awards in Asaba, the governor said that it is impossible for a cultist to bag a first class degree in the university.
“Please let us build a better society by properly bringing up our children at the family level; generally, a child who is properly brought up is an asset to the society. No matter the position we attained, personal attention to our children is very important and what we call insecurity starts from the home.”
According to him, the principle behind the scholarship scheme is that the IQ of the child who makes first class is very high and the society should not put an impediment to the child who have such IQ to proceed to have a doctoral degree, adding that this is the driving force behind the introduction of the scholarship scheme.
“You have to be hard working; you have to be disciplined to be able to make a first class degree and to qualify for the scholarship as you know there is no cult member who makes first class because they do not have time to study.
“Before today, we have given our scholarship to one hundred and thirty three graduates and today, we are giving scholarship to one hundred persons, and since each student is entitled to five million naira, we are giving out five hundred million naira today.”
He appealed to the beneficiaries to be good ambassadors of the State and urged parents to always allow their children to choose what to study stressing.
Speaking on behalf of the beneficiaries, Miss Oke Diateke lauded government Uduaghan for sponsoring the programme, saying that it has challenged Deltans in the universities to strive for excellence, and first class degrees in particular.
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