Kumasi, May 30, GNA - Nine second-year students of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have received the 2006/2007 edition of the S.T. Nankani scholarship for brilliant but needy students instituted in 2003.
Each of the beneficiaries received two million cedis. They are Kwame Osei Bonsu, Haruna Bashiru and Ali Williams, all pursuing agriculture science, Abdul-Hamid Aliu of the Civil Engineering Department, Wisdom Edem Foli and Cynthia Kakie Kartey, both of the Chemical Engineering Department.
The rest are Victor Barnor Oppong, pursuing human biology, Theodore Lawer Otto, an environmental science student and Julius Dongsogo, a biochemistry student.
Professor Kwasi Kwafo Adarkwa, the Vice-Chancellor of KNUST in an address read for him at the presentation ceremony, praised the trustees of the Nankani and Hagan Scholarship Fund kfor the award. The award is for brilliant but needy second-year students of Faculties of Science, Pharmacy, Agriculture, Medicine and Engineering. He said the rising cost of financing tertiary education was making it impossible for the government alone to cope with its funding hence it was necessary that partnership were built with organizations, institutions and individuals to ensure a more efficient use of scarce resources at their disposal.
Mr Manu Nankani, on behalf of the trustees of the fund, said the award was instituted in memory of the late S.T Nankani, former managing director of the Nankani and Hagan Limited. He indicated that the award does not only go to the students but society in general.
Master Abdul-Hamid Aliu on behalf of his colleagues commended the university authorities and the fund for the award and pledged to learn harder to reciprocate the gesture.