We are delighted to announce our 2019 Kponee-Shovein Foundation scholars, outstanding students pursuing education in Rivers State universities. Selected from numerous applicants, each of the recipients was chosen for their potential to make significant contributions to Nigerian society, culture, and their respective academic fields.
Favour Chinedu – 2019 Kponee-Shovein Scholars Award Recipient
Favour Chinedu received the Scholars Award for the first time in 2019, as he entered his second year studying law at River’s State University. Favour’s academic credentials are impeccable and the depth and authenticity of his passion for education make an immediate impression. As the Foundation came to know him better through his essays and interviews, we realized how much disadvantage Favour has overcome in his life. He attributes his success to the persistent love of his mother, who must be a truly remarkable woman to have raised someone of such high character as Favour. Favour chose to study law because his observations of hardship and injustice, including the exclusion of women from property rights and the frequency that Nigerian criminal justice is misused as a tool to persecute the innocent. Favour’s combination of academic and moral qualities are much needed in the legal profession, and the Foundation is proud to support his education.
Nenubari Mee-Eebari – 2019 Kponee-Shovein Scholars Award Recipient
Nenubari Mee-Eebari was awarded the Scholars Award for the first time in 2019, as he began his first year studying human physiology at the University of Port Harcourt. Nenubari’s interest in the medical field has been developed by his work with various international organizations operating in River’s, including Doctors Without Borders and the International Red Cross. Nenubari is a practiced and articulate public speaker in both Ogoni and English languages, who is grateful to his parents for instilling both his native language ability and Ogoni values of discipline and hard work.
Lolia Onyekwere – 2019 Kponee-Shovein Scholars Award Recipient
Lolia Onyekwere received the Scholars Award for the first time in 2019, as she entered her second year studying medicine at River’s State University. The Foundation was initially impressed by Lolia’s strong grades in her first year, and more so when we learned that she is one of seven children and has contributed to the support of her family while pursuing her education. Lolia is a careful, deliberate, and intelligent young woman with a maturity of moral conscience beyond her years. Studying medicine was initially an economic choice for Lolia, but in its practice she is discovering new perspectives on life and community—including through her work in the cadaver lab! She sets herself high goals, but consistently demonstrates the discipline necessary to achieve them. The Kponee-Shovein Foundation is proud to support Lolia’s education and is excited to see her future contributions to medicine, River’s state, and Nigeria!
Nwiwure Barinua; Mary Monday – Continuing Recipients
The Foundation is pleased to report that our prior year scholars Nwiwure Barinua and Mary Monday continue to succeed in their studies, supported respectively by the Kponee-Shovein Scholars award and the Josephine Kponee Memorial Scholarship.
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