- As Union Pays NECO Fees Of 345 Students
Stephen Olufemi Oni, Ilorin
The youths empowerment project of the Ilorin Emirate Descendants Progressive Union (IEDPU) – Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari Skills Acquisition Centre – has reached 80 percent completion level.
The acceleration of work on the multi-million naira project followed its take-over by Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq.
It would be recalled that the Governor had during the annual national conference of the IEDPU on December 25, 2024, announced that he would shoulder the responsibility of the completion of the project within a period of six months as done for CBT Centre in Igbaja Kwara South and similar project in Shonga in Kwara North .
The Chairman of the project committee, Engr. Alfa Shuaib Alao, told a government delegation that visited the project site on Saturday on the sidelines of the IEDPU students scholarship programme that the project has reached 80 percent completion level and would be delivered latest by July 31, 2025.
Alao and the President of IEDPU, Alhaji AbdulMumini AbdulMalik, conducted the government delegation led by the Senior Adviser and Counselor to the Governor, Alhaji Saadu Salahu round the project.
The Senior Adviser and Counselor expressed great delight for the assurance to complete the project on schedule in the light of the projected capacity of the centre in providing unlimited wealth and job creation opportunities for youths in the Ilorin Emirate and beyond.
Meanwhile, the IEDPU in collaboration with Oluwole Foundation presented cheques to 345 students of secondary schools across the five local government areas that make up Ilorin Emirate for their National Examinations Council ( NECO) registration.
At the presentation of the cheques to the beneficiaries, the IEDPU President, AbdulMalik, said the gesture kick-started the 60th anniversary of the union.
“The beneficiaries include five candidates from each of the sixty – nine wards of our five local government areas, totalling three hundred and forty- five.
“I wish to point up straight that a philanthropist under the name of Oluwole Foundation provided the money for this scheme purposely to collaborate with IEDPU’s progressive stride; particularly in education,” AbdulMalik said.
The State Commissioner for Education, Dr Lawal Olohungbebe, said the Governor has approved online registration for common entrance examination in the State, adding that the Governor has also approved awards for the best teachers in all the 16 local government areas of the State to further encourage teachers in public schools.
The donor of the money for NECO registration, Apostle Oluwole Adetuyi, said the gesture was aimed at assisting indigent students in Ilorin Emirate.
Represented by the General Manager of Diamond FM, Ilesha, Osun State, Mr Badewa Adeyemi, the donor said since education is the best legacy that the nation can bequeath to the young ones, “we are doing this NECO sponsorship to secure a better tomorrow for our children.”
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