Ghanaian varsity offers $40,000 scholarship to 2019 UTME best, Ekene
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• Ekene at 15 cannot be admitted by UNILAG, despite his 347 UTME score.


ACADEMIC City College, a private university in Accra, Ghana, has offered scholarship worth $40,000 to Ekene Franklin Ezeunala, the candidate who scored 347 – the highest score – in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The College Senior Admissions Manager (Nigeria), Mrs Ogechi Ekpe, said on the sidelines of a workshop organised by the institution for schools and parents at the Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, at the weekend that the scholarship would cover tuition and boarding for the duration of his programme at the university.

“We have a full scholarship for Ekene. He was supposed to be here today (Friday) but we did not talk about the scholarship today because he was not here. We were to present a scholarship of $40,000 to the boy from year one till he graduates,” she said.

When asked how Ekene would be informed about the scholarship since he was not at the event, Mrs Ekpe said: “We were hoping he would be here today so our President can give him the award. The school is here now. We have to go there and see if we can either take him to Ghana or get our President to come again and give him the scholarship. The scholarship is for real. It is called the Presidential Scholarship so the school pays everything including the hostel fees.”


Ekene, who turns 15 today (Monday), is below 16, the minimum age benchmark to gain admission into his preferred choice – the University of Lagos (UNILAG).

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), also stipulates 16 years as the minimum age for candidates to take the examination during the admission year they apply. However many private varsities in Nigeria accept students who are less than 16.

Mrs. Ekpe said that Academic City College, which offers programmes in Engineering, Business, Communication Arts and Information Technology, accepts students from 15 years of age because it has system in place to monitor them.

She said: “That is why we want him there. Nigerian schools won’t give him admission but we will. We start admitting from 15 which is why we have a very visible Dean of Students’ Affairs. We make sure that they go to class, especially foreign students. You cannot be in the hostel during learning hours. Dean Ruth, that is her name, she normally goes round.

“There are parents that pay for their kids to be off campus but all international students must be on campus because we don’t want them to have immigration issues; we don’t want them to go off track and start doing drugs. We actually insist that in the first year at least they must be on campus.”

The Ghanaian institution became the second institution to announce a full scholarship to Ekene, who just completed his West African v Gregory University, Uturu in Abia State.https://reubenabati.com.ng/index.php/component/k2/item/5818-ghanaian-varsity-offers-40-000-scholarship-to-2019-utme-best-ekene?fbclid=IwAR3fDsIH2q0wC9lL4oklaxwuM1RPY_O_dDOeH2ryeeNjqufi4Vkdz9nWjEQ

Good one from Ghana. The lad should go to Ghana where he can attend university in spite of his young age since Nigeria, the destroyer of talents, and destinies doesn't want him.

Tufia...Tufia...Tufia Nigeria!

kedu nonsense?



We have lost David alaba, Chimamanda, Dele alli..even that boy that won chess competition, The guy that got first class in britain whose dad too got first class in that same department.... so so many potential talents


I still wonder if nigeria would be great again




...so sad


Kudos to the boy...naija na hellish scam