68 Students Of Heritage Polytechnic Get N1.572m For Tuition

Chairman of Eastern Obolo Local Government Area (LGA) of Akwa Ibom State, Mr Abraham Odion, has paid the sum of N1,572,500 as tuition fees for 68 students of Heritage Polytechnic in Eket.
Odion made the disclosure during a chat with the students in Eastern Obolo LGA on Monday, and described education as a key for a glorious future and a tool towards growth, and achievement of students.
He noted that the 68 students who benefit from the largesse was selected based on the courses they are studying at the institution.
Odion added that the beneficiaries were the first set of students he is paying school fees for the first semester of the 2022/2023 session for Eastern Obolo Students of Heritage Polytechnic, Eket.
“The council doles out the sum of N1.572,500 tuition fees to 68 students currently undertaking their educational studies at the Heritage Polytechnic in Eket because of my desire to advance education,” he said.
Odion charged the students to remain focused and resilient in their studies while warning them to eschew all forms of negative vices such as cultism, examination malpractices and joining illegal organisations in or outside the school environs.
Responding on behalf of the beneficiaries, Mr Jeres Adolphus, a Public Administration, Higher National Diploma (HND-1) student, commended the Chairman for selecting him as a beneficiary.
He explained that the gesture was apt due to the cash crunch recently ravaging the country.
“I really appreciate the kind gesture of the Council Chairman and prayed for his success in all ramifications,” he said.
The Tide’s source reports that students in their National Diploma 1 and 2, HND 1 and 2 were also beneficiaries of the tuition fees in the institution.
In another development, the Chairman also distributed educational materials to the pupils of St. Silas Primary School, Okoroete Town, in Eastern Obolo LGA.
According to him, the gesture was apt because without quality education in a community there would be no meaningful development.
He said without education, children’s hope to be future leaders in the society would amount to nothing.