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The Senator representing Rivers East Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator George Thompson Sekibo has presented an opthalmological equipment to the Rivers State University Teaching Hospital and COVID-19 items to 106 senior secondary schools in the state. The materials, according to Senator Sekibo, were part of his constituency outreach programme for the Rivers East Senatorial District. The programmes include presentation of computers, printers and stationery to traditional rulers in the district, internet training and recharge card production and widows’ empowerment.
Presenting the equipment to the management of RSUTH led by the Chief Medical Director of the Hospital, Dr Friday Aaron, Senator Sekibo said he was determined to assist the state government in ensuring that RSUTH become the foremost teaching hospital in the country.
Ogoni Scholarship Fund, under Kiisi Trust Foundation, has granted 346 scholarships to undergraduates of Ogoni extraction in tertiary institutions across Nigeria.
At its maiden initiation in 2018, the fund started with just 18 awards of N150,000 per scholar specifically to final-year Ogoni undergraduates across Nigeria to support their dissertation projects.
In the expanded scope this year, 124 second-year students, 23 third-year students, and 199 final-year students were awarded the scholarship.
Former House of Representatives member, Honorable Uchechukwu Onyea-gucha, Chairman, Board of Trustees, Kiisi Trust, said the Trust which gave birth to the Ogoni Scholarship Fund was created in the 2009 Wiwa vs. Shell lawsuit that awarded the plain-tiffs $15.5 million,of which $5 million was set aside for the creation of the Kiisi Trust.
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