|
|
Nigeria: Achukwu, FUT Graduate Wins London Varsity Scholarship
 |
 |
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||
|
||||||||||
Vanguard (Lagos)
18 July 2008
Posted to the web 18 July 2008
Emmanuel Edukugho
The winner of 2008 Murtala Muhammed Post Graduate Scholarship Award instituted by London Metropolitan University has been named.
At a press conference yesterday in the Multimedia Suite, British Council, Ikoyi, Lagos, the awardee, Mr. John Ekainu Achukwu, 25 years old graduate of Federal University of Technology, Minna, Niger State, was unveiled. He studied Electrical/Computer Engineering.
According to Seun Adeniyi, Administrator, Nigeria Office London Metropolitan University, the 2008 Award is aimed at the ICT/Telecoms sector.
Present at the event were Jummai Muhammed Oluyude, daughter of the late General Murtala Muhammed, Nigeria's third military Head of State killed in an abortive coup in 1976; Peter Stephenson, Director, UK Trade and Investment, British Deputy High Commission, Lagos; Sam Harvey, Director, British Council, Lagos; Alex Oyebajimi, Virgin Nigeria and Lebari Ukpong, Director, Nigeria Office, London Metropolitan University.
Ukpong said the choice of Murtala Muhammed's name for the post graduate scholarship scheme was because of the values he stood for in the short time he ruled Nigeria which has been appreciated by the various public and private facilities named after him by the government and other organisations.
A small per cent of the best, brightest and most deserving students are awarded different scholarships by the university.
Several Nigerian students have benefitted from those scholarships and the Nigeria Office of London Met is seeking to enter partnerships with various industries to provide corporate scholarships.
The university, situated in the heart of London, offers over 485 courses with students from over 150 countries, numbering over 37,000. There are about 500 Nigerians studying at the university.
Achukwu, after receiving the award, said he looked forward to starting a career in the research area of computer networking and its uses in simplifying the daily activities of the average individual.
|
"I also look forward to eventually passing any knowledge gained to the coming generations by becoming a research professor," the winner hoped.
Inspiring achievement... a very big congrats to a brother and schoolmate! U do us proud! wish u all the very best...
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Copyright © 2008 Vanguard. All rights reserved. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). To contact the copyright holder directly for corrections -- or for permission to republish or make other authorized use of this material, click here. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Make allAfrica.com your home page | RSS Feed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top | Site Guide | Who We Are | Advertising | Search | Subscribe | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Questions or Comments? Contact us. Read our Privacy Statement. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
