2 FCT students get S/Korea varsity scholarship

Two students from two FCT schools will be leaving today (Thursday) for a 5-year university study in the Republic of South Korea on a scholarship collaboration with the FCT Secondary Education Board.

The beneficiaries, who won the 2012 scholarship award, are Halima Alhassan Isah and Agnes Omatei Otene of Government Girls Secondary School, Abaji and the School for the Gifted, Gwagwalada.

They are to study Chemical Engineering and Economics from Seoul National University and Yeungnam University respectively.

In a ceremony before their departure on Wednesday, representative of the Secondary Education Board and Deputy Director, Co-Curricula, Hajiya Binta Nasir, said both students have excelled and done the Board and Nigeria proud.

She said the scholarship scheme is collaboration between the Korean Cultural Centre and the FCT Secondary Education Board which started since 2011 on issues of culture, arts and education.

She said two students who qualified in 2011 are already in Korea, and the present 2012 winners passed through a preliminary stage, a zonal competition and a final draw before their emergence.

Principal of both schools advised the two students to be good ambassadors of FCT and Nigeria while the parents also advised their children to remember, pray and thank God who made it all possible.