Umahi offers
scholarships to four best Mathematics students By Philip Nweze
The Governor
of Ebonyi State, Engr. David Umahi, has awarded university scholarships to four
junior secondary students for their outstanding performance in Mathematics and
Oral Mental Arithmetic competitions.
He announced
this during presentation of the students to the State Executive Council at the
Government House, Abakaliki on Wednesday.
The four
students are Miss Igwe Amarachi from Government Technical College Agba, who was
the overall best competitor; Miss Ikechukwu Mary from Uburu Secondary School;
Sorochukwu Nwefuru from Government Technical College, Abakaliki and Ori
Catherine from Government Technical College Agba.
Umahi,
according to a statement on Friday by his Chief Press Secretary, Emma Anya, was
particularly impressed with the intelligence displayed by the students while
answering questions on the subjects without using four figure table or
calculator
He said that
the fund for them to study Medicine after their secondary education would be
made available to them ahead of time to ensure that nothing constituted a
barrier to their study.
The governor
directed his Personal Assistant, Mr. Silas Onu, to liaise with the parents of
the children to open accounts for them, adding that payment of their school
fees into the account would commence next week.
Clarifying
that the money would not be accessed until they gained admission into the
university, Umahi said that the scholarship would last six years.
His words:
"I will pay your school fees for Medicine in advance. We'll open accounts
for four of you and I will know how much the school fees for each and everyone
of you are. I will pay the money into the accounts. It will stay there so that
as you enter the university, you will not have problem of school fees. We will
tell the bank not to release the money until you start university
education."
In an
interview, one of the organisers of the programme, Mr. Alike Friday, said that
students from 12 schools drawn from the three senatorial district of the state
participated in the training.
He explained
that they were taught how to do addition, subtraction, multiplication, division
and others off hand.
Friday
disclosed that 37 students were chosen for the competition by the National
Mathematical Centre out of the 124 who took part in the two weeks training.
Responding
on behalf of others, the best student, Miss Amarachi, expressed her gratitude
to Governor Umahi for the gesture and appealed that more students be allowed to
participate in the exercise in future to enable them benefit.
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