Lagos Award Scholarships to School of the Blind Students

The Lagos State Government has awarded scholarships to students of the School of the Blind, Oshodi; College of Health Technology, Yaba, as well as some athletes to enable them complete their education. The scholarship pegged at 300 million is part of efforts to increase access to knowledge for Lagosians.

He said,“One of the key things we want to do this year is to increase access to knowledge and the governor has made it a mandate that as many Lagosians as possible can get knowledge. We want Lagosians to know that the government works for them, so you don’t have to know anybody to have access to our scholarship system. It is something that started since the last administration and the governor has said it will consolidate with improvements and we are also going to expand so that is why we are supporting them.”

Giving statistics of the awardees, he said, 60 students from the School of the Blind will get N50,000; 336 students of the Lagos State College of Health Technology will get N13.6 million “and we will be giving out over N300 million in bursary this year to over 7,000 Lagosians. This year, we are going to have, 200 students on local scholarship in Lagos state, we are increasing it by over 600, and we are continuing it and adding new ones.”

The Provost, Lagos State College of Health Technology, Dr. Moyo Kasim, thanked the government and the special adviser for the gesture, which he said would alleviate their financial challenges.