Dangote Granite Mines, Ijebu Igbo, a subsidiary of Dangote Group, has given out multi-million Naira scholarships to 60 students from its host communities who are studying in various schools across the country.
The scholarship award was part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to promote education in its host communities. The company also offered the beneficiaries automatic employment if they perform well in their studies.
The company’s management said that the scholarship was a way of ensuring that its host communities’ benefit from development, especially in education and infrastructure, which are some of the key areas of focus for the company.
The scholarship recipients were selected from five host communities that are close to Dangote Granite Mines, namely Ajebandele; Olorunmodi Ademowo; Saliu Baba Risi; Idi-Omo and Ijebu-Igbo township. The scholarship covers both secondary and higher institution students.
Mr. Ebenezer Fola Ali, Director, Human Assets Management, Dangote Projects, who presented the cheques to each of the awardees, said that the scholarship was intended to support the parents of the beneficiaries in paying for their children’s education.
He also said that the scholarship award was part of the Community Development Agreement (CDA) that was signed with the leaders of the host communities, and urged the beneficiaries to focus on their education as they will be given automatic employment if they excel academically.
He also handed over the signed CDA to the Ijebu Igbo monarch, the Sopenlukale of Oke Sopen, Oba Muftau Adesesan Yussuf, and thanked him and the communities’ leaders for maintaining peace and understanding between the company and the communities.
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He assured the communities that the company will fulfill its part of the agreement and continue to identify with them at all times. He also asked the communities’ leaders to keep supporting the company by ensuring peace.
He also advised the scholarship beneficiaries to make their parents and the company proud by avoiding any activities that could affect their education negatively.
He encouraged them to excel in their chosen fields and motivate the company to do more for them and their communities.
The Sopenlukale, Oba Yussuf, expressed his gratitude to the management of Dangote Group for their assistance to the communities, saying that the scholarship award showed that the company was community friendly and committed to giving back to society.
He asked his people not to take the scholarship award and other projects that the company is doing for them for granted, but to appreciate them as acts of love and generosity from the company.
He also said that the company is not mining for free, but paying taxes to both state and federal governments, so what they are doing for the communities is extra.
He urged his people to continue to live in peace with the company as it is only in a peaceful environment that more development can happen.
Miss Aregbe Grace Oluwadamilola of Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), who spoke on behalf of other beneficiaries, thanked Dangote Granite Mines for their kindness, saying that the scholarship will help them overcome some of the financial challenges they face in school.
