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Two ACE students win Prof Falola-Friezen $5000 award

By Oluwaseun Akingboye, Akure
22 October 2018   |   3:18 am
Two students of Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo, Stella Olajide and Blessing Olorunda, have won the Falola-Friesen Scholarship Award worth $5,000 each for emerging the most outstanding students. The beneficiaries are both sophomores from the Department of Biology, selected by independent jury who attested to their scholarship, brilliance, commitment, honesty, and vision among 12…

Adeyemi College of Education (ACE)

Two students of Adeyemi College of Education (ACE), Ondo, Stella Olajide and Blessing Olorunda, have won the Falola-Friesen Scholarship Award worth $5,000 each for emerging the most outstanding students.

The beneficiaries are both sophomores from the Department of Biology, selected by independent jury who attested to their scholarship, brilliance, commitment, honesty, and vision among 12 students that applied for the scholarship.

They were presented the cheque by the guest lecturer of the 34th Convocation Lecture, titled: “Education Wealth,” Prof. Toyin Falola, who disclosed that the scholarship was at the behest of his daughter in the United States of.

Falola, a distinguished professor, Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker, Chair in the Humanities, University of Texas, Austin USA, evolved the lecture on knowledge economy, youths, women, technology and globalization.

He iterated the importance of technology and knowledge economy on economic development globally, revealing that the demands for educational relevance and certain skills have drastically increased.

Assessing the globalization trend, he noted that African continent will be ahead of other continents by 2025 due to the increased number of new entrants to the labour force between ages 15 and 64.

The founder of Toyin Falola Annual Conference on Africa and the African Diaspora (TOFAC), Falola, however, lamented that the continent’s education systems are grossly inadequate to meet the demands of the labour force in the next seven years.

He said the problem in most African countries was not due to technical expertise, but attributed it to corruption and “a low institutional capacity to mobilize, utilize and retain existing expertise.”

Falola, who was conferred with the College Fellowship, advised the college management on global best practices to optimally utilize the potentials of the students for nation-building and development.

The outgoing Provost, Prof. Olukoya Ogen, said the conferment was deserving for the don in recognition of his special contributions to the college, which include a donation of e-books valued at over N12 million and another donation of $5,000 to the college for the hosting of the 2017 TOFAC conference which attracted over 350 scholars to the college from across the globe.

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