100 Remo indigent students get N5m bursaries
One hundred beneficiaries drawn from the Larfarge Africa PLC host communities in the Remo land area of Ogun State have benefited from a N5 million bursary grant.
Also, another 100 indigenes benefited from free eye surgery, while hundreds of working sanitation and material tools, including hand gloves, dustbins, wheel barrows, rakes, brooms, nose guards and sanitizers, were presented to the Sagamu Youth Council in order to ensure hygienic environment in the area.
The gesture from the cement manufacturer also included the inauguration of two health centres at Batoro and Araba, both in Sagamu Local Government of the state.
Speaking at the inauguration of the health centres at the weekend, Michel Puchercos, the Lafarge Africa Country Chief Executive Officer, promised that Lafarge would continue to show commitment to education, health & safety, economic empowerment and infrastructural development in Nigeria, especially to its host communities across the country.
Puchercos noted that Lafarge Africa was able to reach out to its host communities as part of measures to support government in its quest to offer quality and affordable healthcare for the entire residents of the state.
He said, “On our part, in the last four decades of our strategic partnership and collaboration, we have continued to show our commitment to education, economic empowerment, health and safety and infrastructural development.”
The Akarigbo of Remoland, Oba Babatunde Ajayi, commended the company for assisting the community in uplifting the standard of education and health, among others.
The traditional ruler, who was represented by Oba Timothy Akinsanya, the Ewusi of Makun, charged the company to further boost the welfare of the host communities.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Modupe Mujota, lauded Lafarge’s gesture towards quality health and academic excellence in the state, saying the intervention undertaken in the areas of health, education and economic empowerment had represented Lafarge as one of Ogun State’s partners in progress.
Mujota, who was represented by Oluola Aikulola, Director of Primary and Tertiary Education, urged all the firms operating in the state to reach out to the people in their host communities.