UNIFEMGA Awards N8 million Scholarships, Grants to OAU Students


At 2022 National Reunion Conference Obafemi Awolowo University Muslim Graduates’ Association (UNIFEMGA) presented N8.075 million worth of scholarships and grants to 105 undergraduate and postgraduate students of the  university.

UNIFEMGA said,  it has disbursed a total of N50 million to about 850 students of the institution to date.

During the Conference held at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, UNIFEMGA has also suggested the adoption of the Islamic concept of leadership in Nigeria through the institutionalisation of the principles of integrity, honesty and competency rather than patronage.

In a statement signed by its National President, AbdulFattah Olanlege, and National Public Relations Officer, Shamsudeen Adenopo, the association also urged Muslims, particularly the elite, to become more involved in politics and the electoral process, describing it as a necessity and an act of worship.

Failure of leadership in Nigeria has caused us a lot of challenges, UNIFEMGA noted. We have witnessed civil strife, insurgency, banditry, kidnapping, corruption, economic downturn, political rascality and social disorder.

According to UNIFEMGA, the series of security crises we are witnessing in the country is due largely to insensitivity on the part of our leaders, ineptitude of intelligence gathering on the part of the security agencies which constitute a great challenge to good governance and a threat to democracy in the country.

“All the three tiers of governments in Nigeria should ensure that the lives and property of all the citizens of the country are secure. This is important, as it is only when there is national security that development can take place.

“We condemn in strong terms the terrorist acts in some parts of the country, mob, jungle and selective killings of innocent Nigerians and advise the Federal Government to avoid the present stereotype of pigeon-holing it as a religious issue. It is more of political, ethnic and economic issue.”

The group asked the private sector to work with the government as soon as possible to improve Nigerians’ education and address the country’s “infrastructural deficit.”

It further stated that job opportunities should be provided to the millions of unemployed Nigerian youngsters “who are being used as instruments of violence by some selfish and unpatriotic individuals.”

Ishaq Lakin Akintola, a professor of Islamic Eschatology and director of the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), gave the reunion lecture, which was chaired by a retired Commissioner of Police, Yinka Balogun, and attended by Governor Gboyega Oyetola of Osun State, represented by his Special Adviser on Education, Alhaji Jamiu Olawunmi.

The association also had its Annual General Meeting (AGM), during which its operations over the previous year were reviewed and the present National Executive Committee’s continuation in office was affirmed.

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