Balogun Commends Red Star Express on Scholarship Award

Hon. Afeez Ipesa-Balogun, chairman of Oshodi local government area  of Lagos State  has praised Red Star Express  for sustaining  her scholarship award programme  given to schools  in the Oshodi / Isolo local government area disclosing that the  foundation’s  activities have become  a legacy that will definitely outlive  his tenure in office as chairman .
Ipesa- Balogun made the disclosure at the 2008 edition of the award of scholarship to nine students of the area which held at the company’s head office in Lagos recently.
Sule Bichi, managing director / chief executive officer of Red Star Express  disclosed that  the Red Star Foundation scholarship  which was instituted  by the leading express and logistics company  in 2004  was part of the company’s  corporate social responsibility aimed at  giving back to the society  where they do business  especially having considered the level of progress recorded by the company in  the past 15 years  .
Bichi also intimated that the company’s board has resolved that the scholarship programme be expanded to include schools in the northern and eastern parts of the country. 
So far, 21 students from the Oshodi / Isolo local government have benefited from the scholarship while 40 scholarships have been given out since inception.
One of the beneficiaries, Ms Emmanuella Awoh, an SS3 student of Ikeja Senior Grammar School , Oshodi spoke on behalf of other recipients  of the award and thanked Red Star Express for its commitment  to the scholarship programme which she said  had  reduced the  burden  borne by their parents  in providing their educational needs.
“When I became a beneficiary in 2006 as SS1 student, I was filled with joy. The company promised to give me N50, 000.00 every year till I leave secondary school. Most of us doubted this, but today, I am receiving my last pay from Red Star Express as a scholar under the Red Star Foundation. What more can I say than to thank the company and its management for keeping their promises to us over the years ‘’,   the elated Awoh asked rhetorically.