10/07/2025
In 2021,a student of the University of Benin in Edo State, Philip Okafor, has been awarded a scholarship by the management of the school for his integrity.
About two months ago, Okafor returned to its owner a wallet which contained a substantial amount of money and other valuables.
The wallet belonged to another 200 level student of Environmental Management and Toxicology Department in the same faculty.
Okafor was still having an outstanding school fees of N 45,600 when he found the wallet.
Philip had refused just two months or so earlier to take the money in the wallet he found to pay his school charges, even though the money found in that wallet was well over what was required to pay his school charges of forty-five thousand and six hundred naira (NGN45,600.00). He chose rather to return the wallet and its content to the owner in the midst of his own need even when many in his shoes would have seen this as 'help from above'.
Impressed by his exemplary character, the Dean on behalf of Faculty offered Philip exempt from school charges not only for the current session for which he was owing but all through his period of undergraduate studies in the Faculty. Philip therefore becomes the first recipient of the Dean's Special Prize for Exemplary Behaviour.
Sahara
