Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, representing Ondo South Senatorial District, is set to disburse a N100 million bursary to 1,000 indigent students from his constituency in tertiary institutions.
Each beneficiary will receive N100,000 as part of the Senator’s yearly initiative to support higher education of beneficiaries who are from all communities across Ondo Southern Senatorial District.
Thefrontrank reports that the bursary, a sole financing of Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, is being managed by a committee of seasoned administrators to ensure fair and transparent selection of beneficiaries.
The Senator explained that it became necessary for him to fund the academic pursuits of the undergraduates in the district because most parents were struggling to make ends meet.
All undergraduates from the Ondo South Senatorial District are advised to reach out to the traditional rulers of their respective communities to obtain the form.
They can also get the form at the All Progressives Congress (APC) secretariat and Aseyori leaders in Ondo South.
Each student is also to submit the form to where it was obtained after filling it.
The billionaire business mogul assured that the presentation of bank drafts to the undergraduates will hold on September 25, 2025.
“I cherish education and I appreciate anyone that determined to acquire education.
“A lot of parents are struggling to pay their children’s tuitions due to funds that are available to them.
“Many of our people are peasant farmers, fishermen and traders, how they cope with the situation of high tuitions every academic session gives me serious concern.
“It behoves me to offer this helping hand to ameliorate the pressure parents face at the beginning of everything academic session in searching for money to pay their children’s tuitions.
“The fund is open to all undergraduates from all communities in Ondo Southern Senatorial District. That’s why the forms would be made available in all palaces and with All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders and Aseyori leaders.
“We will make the form also accessible online for indigenes resident outside the communities to partake.
“We are giving a sum of N100,000 cash to each of the 1000 undergraduates that apply,” Ibrahim disclosed.
The lawmaker, therefore, charged all undergraduates from the senatorial district to obtain the forms as the first 1000 students who obtained the forms would benefit from the N100 million largesse.
