i-Scholar Initiative offers 100 Nigerians scholarships, mentorship

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03 June 2024 | 1:05 p.m.

The i-Scholar Initiative (iSI) contiguous announced the names of 100 Nigerians that volition payment from its yearly scholarship. In a connection issued by the organisation’s enforcement secretary, Dr. Olufemi Fajolu, the merchandise of the database followed a rigorous enactment process coordinated by the organisation’s operations squad pb by Mrs. Hanatu Banjoko. “As an organisation, we…

The i-Scholar Initiative (iSI) contiguous announced the names of 100 Nigerians that volition payment from its yearly scholarship.
In a connection issued by the organisation’s enforcement secretary, Dr. Olufemi Fajolu, the merchandise of the database followed a rigorous enactment process coordinated by the organisation’s operations squad pb by Mrs. Hanatu Banjoko.

“As an organisation, we person committed ourselves to gathering a pipeline filled with talented Nigerians whose capacities would beryllium tapped for the needed improvement of the nation” says Mrs. Tolulope Ewherido, the organisation’s seat of the committee of trustees.

“As always, I’m highly grateful to each our volunteers and donors for partnering with america connected this mission.” Ewherido continued.

The awards offered by iSI volition wage for standardised tests specified arsenic the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) and the Test of English arsenic a Foreign Language (TOEFL). Scores from the 2 tests are required by apical universities successful North America and Europe. The assistance besides covers a predetermined magnitude of postgraduate schoolhouse exertion fees and astir importantly, an end-to-end mentoring program.

Over the past 4 years, much than 250 Nigerians person benefited from iSI scholarships. Significant bulk of these Nigerians person gone up to person afloat funded offers of admittance into assorted postgraduate programs successful the USA and different occidental countries. The full monetary magnitude of funded offers received by these Nigerians is successful excess of $30 million. Also, immoderate of the young Nigerians that benefited from iSI person completed their acquisition and are present moving successful assorted fields.

“I echo the gratitude expressed by our BoT seat to each our stakeholders and especially, our donors. Without them, we can’t bash immoderate of what we are doing. So I won’t beryllium mistaken to accidental that they are the motor that powers this organization;” Victor Ogunmola, the organisation’s president was quoted arsenic saying.

The caller awardees volition soon beryllium receiving invitations to articulation i-Scholar Initiative (iSI)’s platforms, and they volition beryllium onboarded into the organisation during an authoritative lawsuit that volition instrumentality spot aboriginal successful June. The database of awardees is besides disposable connected the organisation’s website. www.ischolarinitiative.org.

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