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As portion of OPay’s program to springiness backmost to the nine and peculiarly interaction the lives and acquisition of youths, they person yet taken their assistance programme to Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU).
In June 2025, OPay signed a memorandum of knowing (MOU) with OOU to kickstart their program of awarding scholarships to students of the institution.
Speaking astatine the event, OPay’s Chief Public Affairs Officer, Mr Justin Zhang, shared the company’s reasons for kickstarting a assistance programme successful Nigerian universities. According to him, they decided to absorption connected the youths who are their large lawsuit base. He said:
“For OPay, we person been successful Nigeria since 2018, but we lone passed the interruption adjacent past year, the 4th fourth of past year. So erstwhile we started making profits, we considered what we could bash to springiness backmost to Nigeria. We decided to bash thing for the young procreation to assistance their education.”Zhang added that OPay’s assistance programme started successful 2024 with University of Ibadan and Ahmadu Bello University.
“We started this task past year, we did immoderate pioneer projects with the University of Ibadan (UI) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), 1 successful the South and 1 successful the North and it was successful. So this year, we privation to widen to 20 universities. For each university, we springiness 20 slots to students, we sponsor them with N300,000 per twelvemonth which means that each year, we walk N120 cardinal for the assistance task and for the archetypal phase, this task volition past for 10 years”, helium said.Justin Zhang besides spoke connected OPay’s different initiatives to springiness backmost to the nine and however they person kicked disconnected plans to donate to superior and secondary schools arsenic good arsenic housewives to request to larn skills to commencement businesses. He said:
“Apart from this, we besides did different projects similar “Play4aChild”. It's a donation to superior schoolhouse and secondary schoolhouse students, to springiness them immoderate learning worldly similar bags oregon books oregon payroll oregon thing similar that. This year, we besides started different pioneer task which we telephone the Woman Empowerment Project. We springiness grooming to 100 location women and besides prime 50 from them to springiness them immoderate sponsorship for them to commencement their business, for example, similar tailoring, they commencement tailoring and we sponsor them with a tailoring instrumentality and immoderate apparel truthful they tin commencement their business.” “I deliberation for adjacent year, our large information is to springiness grooming to immoderate students and we are focused connected students successful the future. So we volition springiness immoderate grooming to students and pb them to larn immoderate skills and besides to commencement their ain concern arsenic well. This is our plan. For OPay, this is simply a CSR project, we didn’t inquire the schools to springiness america thing back. We don’t person immoderate requirements.”
Through OPay’s concern with Olabisi Onabanjo University, they volition grant scholarships to 20 outstanding students successful the institution, with each recipient receiving 300,000 Naira. This inaugural is portion of their broader 10-year Scholarship Programme, which is valued astatine 1.2 cardinal Naira.
OPay is committed to fostering education and providing fiscal assistance to students, allowing them to execute their world and vocation goals without the hindrance of fiscal constraints.
Legit.ng had a chat with OOU’s SUG president, Muiz Olaoluwa Olatunji and helium shared his thoughts connected his school’s concern with OPay. He said:
“My sanction is Muiz Olaoluwa Olatunji, and I’m the 38th SUG president. Having OPay assistance present contiguous is simply a bully thing, peculiarly for my medication arsenic the SUG president and to each our indigenous students, I americium blessed for them due to the fact that this could beryllium a benignant of a programme that volition really easiness the hostility of them dropping retired oregon immoderate of them not being capable to further their education, truthful I'm really, truly blessed to person OPay assistance present successful our school, and I'm very, precise grateful for the bully and motion for bringing the assistance to our institution. I convey them truthful much, I truly admit them.”Speaking further, the SUG president shared his acquisition with students struggling to wage their fees and however OOU had been making efforts to assistance them.
“Even up to this moment, I deliberation we person a batch of students that are struggling to wage their schoolhouse fees. We person a batch of them, and conscionable getting this benignant of accidental volition surely beryllium a benignant of a miraculous happening to them. We've assisted immoderate of our students successful paying schoolhouse fees galore times. I deliberation the past administration, I worked intimately with them and I cognize however overmuch they struggled and spent much than millions to enactment students successful paying their schoolhouse fees”, helium said.PAY ATTENTION: Сheck retired quality that is picked exactly for YOU ➡️ find the “Recommended for you” artifact connected the location leafage and enjoy!
Source: Legit.ng
