Three students of St. Peter’s College, Idah have been offered full scholarships for building a sport utility vehicle at an exhibition.
Gatekeepers News reports that management of the Korea-Nigeria Friendship Institute of Vocational and Advanced Technology, Lokoja offered the students the full scholarships for building a sport utility vehicle at an exhibition.
The students – Samson Emeje, 29; Yusuf Ayuba, 20; and Tenimu Abubakar, 18, who recently wrote their Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, had invented and exhibited an electrically-powered tricycle and SUV at the 2021 and 2022 STETSCOM Science Exhibition.
The Rector of the institute, Williams Charles, while presenting the admission letters to the students on Wednesday said that they had exhibited rare technical skills and deserved to be aided in advancing their talents in order to be useful to society.
Charles said the institute had been recognised globally for manpower training in advancing science and technology, thus contributing to the growth and development of the state.
He added that the institute’s management was moved into action by the feat displayed by the pupils at the 2021 and 2022 STETSCOM Science Exhibition by inventing an electrically-powered tricycle and SUV.
Charles praised the students for showing their innovative skills by using locally-sourced materials, stressing that people with creative minds were special humans for their abilities to put things on paper and translate them into reality.
While commending the Governor of the State, Yahaya Bello for his unflinching commitment to the institute, he appealed for more support in order to meet the demands of the forthcoming resource inspection by the National Board for Technical Education.
The Rector, therefore, called on politicians, corporate organisations and the government to beam their searchlights on young people with natural skills like the three pupils to afford them the opportunity to undertake the life transformation courses being offered by the institute.
One of the beneficiaries, Emeje, who spoke on behalf of his colleagues, appreciated the rector for the gesture, saying that studying at the institute was a dream come true.
