The MTN Foundation, under its MTN Foundation Scholarship, yesterdeay disbursed over N114 million as scholarships to 380 students, including visually impaired ones, across Nigerian universities for the 2024/2025 academic session.
The foundation also inducted the 380 graduates into the MTN Scholarship Alumni Association.
The scholarship award was part of the foundation’s efforts to promote academic excellence and boost the education of visually impaired students in higher institutions of learning.
Speaking at this year’s edition of the MTN Foundation Scholarship Award and alumni induction ceremony at Cubana Hall in Enugu, MTN Foundation’s Director Dennis Okoro said the foundation’s scholarship was unique.
The director said it is meant for the intelligent, brilliant, and resilient students who work hard in their studies.
According to him, the 13-year-old scholarship scheme is different from bursary, because “we give scholarships to beneficiaries until they graduate”.
Okoro added: “It’s so competitive that, for us to renew your scholarship every year, you have to maintain the same Grade Point Average (GPA) average.
“Those of you who have our scholarships should pat yourselves on the back and never rest on your oars and continue to maintain the scholarship, because there is so much value in it. You don’t join this scholarship and abandon it.”
The director noted that one of the unique features of the scholarship is that “throughout your course, we have to make you be certified in your field for up to 10 certificate courses online”.
He added: “Apart from that, by the time you graduate, we put you through a digital literacy in the serious sense, teach you other things, and you will become part of our family at the MTN Foundation.
“Anyone who is a beneficiary of this scholarship merited it. There’s no issue of influence of any kind. This is because MTN has a brand.”
