The Kwara state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq,   Monday praised the eldest child of the late former governor of the state, Rear Admiral Mohammed Lawal, Arinola Lawal, for awarding scholarship to 150 indigent students in the state.

Hajia Arinola, the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Assembly’s candidate for Ilorin East constituency, said the scholarship award was implemented under the foundation she floated in remembrance of her father – Mohammed Alabi Lawal Foundation.

Speaking with journalists at the side line of the event, AbdulRazaq, represented by his special adviser and counsellor, Alhaji Saadu Salawudeen, priased the lawmaker for prioritising education which according to him, “is the number priority of this administration”. 

The governor expressed delight that his administration’s huge investment in education is yielding positive results with the state contingents from public schools wining national and international laurels for the state.

While thanking the donor of her interest in the education and future of the young ones, AbdulRazaq, urged other stakeholders to embrace his government’s educational policies to secure the future of the young generations. 

AbdulRazaq assured that his administration would continue to invest heavily in the education sector reiterating that education had remained the number priority of his administration. 

In her remarks, Hajia Arinola Lawal said the scholarship award was in demonstration of the art of benevolence she had learnt from her late father and her resolve not to deviate from the noble cause, but rather build on it by increasing the number of this year’s beneficiaries to 150.