14/03/2025
POSITIVE EFFECTS AND IMPLICATION OF JAMB SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME BY DUNUKOFIA MAYOR
By Chukwuma Akubue
A couple of week ago, the Mayor of Dunukofia, Barrister Chijioke C. Ozumba, Dunukofia Mr. Project Chairman announced that he was embarking on rendering Free Scholarships to Eight Hundred and Eighty (880) JAMB examinations candidates of Dunukofia extract to the wonderful delight of Ndi Dunukofia.
Education is the key foundation of societal progress, and initiatives such as providing opportunity for Free registrations of Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board (JAMB) examinations for the candidates, especially the less privileged ones, has far reaching positive effects on the parents, students and Dunukofia communities where many families struggle with various burdens, especially that of, education.
Many parents in Dunukofia Local Government face acute financial challenges, and the cost of JAMB exams has been a significant burden on them, no doubt. The Mayor having made the exam registrations Free of charge for these large chunk of candidates from Dunukofia serves as an enabler to save money which are now redirected towards other essential needs of life such as food, healthcare, and housing, among others.
Some parents struggle hard to push their children to embark on higher education due to financial constraints, hence, this Free registration have eliminated this barrier, thereby encouraging more parents to support their children’s future on higher academic aspirations. Some students usually drop out of educational pursuits due to their families’ inability to afford examination fees.
By removing this cost, parents have been given an assurance of completion of their children's education. Thus, many students in Dunukofia who may not have had the financial means to sit for JAMB can now take the exams freely, increasing their chances of gaining admission into tertiary institutions, by actually focusing on their eventual success in the examinations having been lifted of the burdens of the registration fees by the able, hardworking, capacity personified, young Mayor of Dunukofia, Barr. Chijioke Ozumba.
The knowledge alone that they have the opportunity to write these exams without financial stress serves as a motivation alone for the students to focus on their studies and strive for better marks and higher excellence.
Financial constraints often push some youths into negative behaviors such as bad peer influence and activities, crime or drug abuse. Access to free education can help keep students engaged in productive academic pursuits that would prepare them for positive responsibilities, endeavors and aspiration in the future.
The more JAMB candidates from Dunukofia Local Government successfully pass the examinations, the more educated population of elites emerge from Dunukofia, leading to the development of skilled professionals and manpower in various fields of human endeavours. These contribute to economic growth, social stability and development of homogeneous Dunukofia Local Government Area in the end.
Education is a key driver of economic mobility and attainment. By making the exams free for our candidates, the more our wards can access higher education, ultimately resulting in them securing better jobs, skills, confidence, articulation and stability towards improving their individual and families’ financial and welfare status.
As more educated youths emerge, they contribute positively to the economy by bringing in new ideas, creativity, businesses, and innovations that can improve significantly and, more wholistically, the standard of living in Dunukofia and Anambra State, in particular and the world, at large.
The introduction of Free JAMB examinations registration by the Dunukofia Mayor for Dunukofia indigenes is a transformative policy that would uplift families, empower students, and drive socio-economic progress in Dunukofia. By investing in education, the Mayor of Dunukofia has paved the way for a more livable and prosperous future, where financial barriers no longer hinder academic and career success, in line with his administration’s PALD agenda.
We thank the Dunukofia Mayor of this rare and generous effort to help our parents reduce their burden of expenses as we ask the JAMB candidates to seize this golden opportunity the Mayor has offered them and reciprocate it by making themselves, their families and Dunukofia proud in the forthcoming JAMB exams in April 2025 and in future.
Many thanks to Ifezulumba Dunukofia for this rare feat that shall, no doubt, permanently impact, positively, on the lives of the recipients, their parents as well as on every facet of Dunukofia lives thereby guaranteeing the equitable development of the Local Government Area of our dream in the near future! Bravo, Ifezulumba Dunukofia...Mr. TALKER-DO!
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