ICDA awards scholarship to outstanding students

The Chairman, Ikorodu Community Development Award Foundation (ICDA),Mr Austin Awolonu  says the foundation will give scholarship awards to outstanding students from the area.

Awolonu told  confirmed this to newsmen in Lagos on Wednesday that awards would also be given to outstanding public schools in the division.

In his words, "This is a foremost grassroots awards to encourage indigenes and residents of Ikorodu.

"The awards are meant to support and celebrate people who have made the community proud outside the division.

"It will also reward institutions and corporate organisations doing the entire Ikorodu division proud," Awolonu said.

In the same vein, Mr Sanai Agunbiade, the Majority Leader, Lagos State House of Assembly, has also thrown his weight behind the awards by endowing a Community Development Award.

The foundation chairman said the 2016 categories would include the Bishop Mike Okonkwo Award for the most outstanding secondary school and the Rhoda Youth Award for student with best WASSCE result.

He said that awards would also be given to the best female student in WASSCE, outstanding students in sports, arts and entertainment as well as SOB Agunbiade Award for the most outstanding CDA, market and garage of the year.

The chairman urged Ikorodu indigenes and residents to support the foundation in its efforts at promoting responsible individuals and institutions contributing to the development of the community.