From Stanley Uzoaru, Owerri
The Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO), Professor Nnenna Oti, on Tuesday, disclosed that the institution’s council has approved N30 million grant for its host communities.
Breaking it down how it will be distributed in a pre convocation press conference on Tuesday, Oti said the school management got the approval of the council to institute Host Community Scholarship Scheme with an annual allocation of N10 million to 100 students, N100,000 each .
The second phase is the Poverty Allocation Project ,ten million she said to be given to the ten host communities of the school annually , 100 indigent women and youths gets 100,000 each.
While the third face she announced as Community Development Project which she said ten million would be given annually for joint host communities project. However in this case,she said the host communities will decide on the project of their choice.
This she believes will help enhance the relationship between the school and its host communities.
Meanwhile, the school will be convocating 5,091 students on Saturday to mark the combined ceremony of graduating classes of 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 academic sessions disrupted by the protracted Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) strike.
Breaking down graudands by class of degrees, Oti said 57 students would be graduating with first class degrees, 1086 second class upper, 2477 second class lower and 245 third class totalling 3865 graduands for 2020/2021 set while in 2021/2022, 63 students graduated with first class honour, 591 second class upper, 544 second class lower and 28 third class totalling 1226.