UWR: Regional Chief Imam Spends over Ghs64,500 on brilliant but needy students
The Upper West Regional Chief Imam, His Eminence Imam Alhaj Osman Mahama Kanihi has spent a whooping Sixty-Four Thousand Nine Hundred and Six Ghana Cedis Forty-One Pesewas (Ghs64,906.41) in the payment of school fees for brilliant but needy students for the 2023/2024 academic year.
The amount was expended through the Regional Chief Imam’s Educational Endowment Fund which was launched in October 2022.
At a press conference held at the forecourt of the Chief Imam’s Residence on the 31st of December, 2023, a list of twenty-seven(27) students was unveiled as the second batch of beneficiaries of the educational endowment fund created by the Regional Chief Imam.
According to the committee of the Fund, they received 44 applications from the public of which 41 were Muslims and 3 Christians.
The applicants met with the Evaluation and Assessment Committee which after assessment recommended 27 candidates for the second batch of beneficiaries.
Below are the beneficiaries :
1. Osman Nuntaa Haanim
2. Abubakar Abdul Majeed
3. Dauda Rukaya
4. Salifu Mohammed
5. Uthman Abdul Galib
6. Yakubu Hafusah
7. Osman Sena Khadija
8. Rahinatu Ibrahim
9. Hanidu Amina
10. Salifu Zainab
11. Issahaku Elham
12. Abdulai Saiba
13. Abdul Razak Halitu
14. Osman Maridiat
15. Yahaya Hafiz Nubanie
16. Mumuni Amina
17. Mumuni Halilu
18. Abdul Rahman Mohammed Salim
19. Latifa Yahaya
20. Seidu Yussif
21. Peter Nubasaga Tuluori
22. Fuseini Jakpa Hakeem
23. Muhammad Abdul Mujib
24. Mohammed Abu
25. Suleiman Yussif Anbanbeu
26. Ibrahim Abdul Hamid
27. Vincent Danyuo
The Upper West Regional Chief Imam Endowment Fund was established in October 2022 to provide scholarship opportunities every year to underprivileged students at various levels within the Region and Beyond.
By: Adil Fuseini
