Reflection of human values: How Hon. Eunice Achimugu embodies honour through scholarship
By Isah Jibrin Egbolo
The scholarship awarded to the young girl, Ibrahim Inikpi Glory, stands as a powerful testament to the high value Hon. Eunice Achimugu places on building a knowledge-driven population in her community. An educated child is far less likely to accept servitude or a life of limitation.
Hon. Eunice Achimugu reflects core human values—kindness, love, steadfastness, and deep respect for society—regardless of individual idiosyncrasies or demographic differences. Emotional intelligence, social intelligence, intellectual capacity, religious grounding, and even political awareness are closely intertwined with educational values. Through her pet project and humanitarian foundation, she has extended these to the young beneficiary, Inikpi Ibrahim Glory.
Education remains an undeniable catalyst for both personal and societal progress. It broadens a person’s horizons beyond their traditional socio-cultural environment and ordinary social life. Hon. Eunice Achimugu confronts the harsh reality that a society without female education becomes a distorted one, where women face intellectual disadvantages compared to men.
She firmly opposes the notion that a woman’s place is confined to the kitchen or “the other room.” Instead, she embraces the timeless truth: educate a girl child, and you educate the entire world. This counters the ill-fated and outdated arguments often heard in patriarchal societies.
Experts in educational psychology affirm that education makes individuals relevant and empowered in life. Inikpi Ibrahim Glory must therefore resist negative peer influences, as the path of hard work and discipline is the surest route to success. Education can eradicate poverty in her social environment, enabling her to enjoy a fulfilling life with improved well-being and life expectancy.
Hon. Eunice Achimugu is acutely aware of the discriminatory tendencies and knowledge inequalities that persist in modern society. This awareness has driven her to champion girl-child education, fostering an egalitarian society and intellectual balance between genders.
As a writer and passionate advocate, I myself attended school under orphanage conditions. By the grace of God, the knowledge I gained elevated my social standing in tourism, hospitality, and communication. The psychological stigma and absence of basic needs during my school years never deterred me from achieving academic excellence alongside my classmates.
Ibrahim Inikpi Glory should view this scholarship as a clarion call to pursue academic excellence—burning the candle at both ends—so that we may celebrate her future achievements in the ivory tower of knowledge.
To Hon. Eunice Achimugu: May God continue to bless and stabilize your resources, for no one attends school on credit. Igalamela-Odolu Local Government is proud of you. Kogi State is proud of you. Nigeria is proud of you, and the international community stands in admiration as well.
Our support for and relationship with you will remain symbiotic, never parasitic.
Hon. Isah Jibrin Egbolo writes from Abuja.
