By OLASUNKANMI AKONI
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos state has approved the release of N77, 536,621.20 as scholarship award to 337 qualified state indigenes in various tertiary institutions throughout the country for 2011/2012 session.

According to the Secretary, Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mrs. Yetunde Jegede, who disclosed this Thursday, the concerned awardees are the 223 undergraduate students with 3.5 Grade Poinat and above and 74 Post Graduate students who took part in the last conducted Local Scholarship interview in January 2012.

“The list also includes 40 undergraduate students who automatically qualified for Merit Award having got 4.0 Grade Point and above”. Jegede stated.

She explained that documentation exercise in readiness for the presentation of award to this category of awardees will commence on Monday October 22, 2012 at the Board premises, Agege. Thereafter, ATM Cards would be released to awardees that have been cleared.

The award value ranges between N200, 000.00, N300, 000.00 and N400, 000.00 for Undergraduate, Master’s and Doctorate students respectively.

Meantime, online sale of Local Scholarship Award for 2012/2013 Session will also commence on Monday October 22, 2012. Interested applicants are expected to pay and obtain receipt of N2, 000.00 at the Office of Special Adviser on Education, Block 5, Secretariat, Alausa.