Less than a year after making the promise in Otukpo, Chief Godwin Obla, SAN, has fulfilled his pledge to sponsor the first female of Idoma extraction to graduate with a first class from the Nigerian Law School for postgraduate studies abroad.
Through the Godwin Obla Foundation, Obla has paid the full £33,000 tuition for Ochanya, who has been admitted to Queen Mary University of London for an LLM in Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
The tuition was paid directly to the university, while another ₦25 million has been paid into Ochanya’s personal account for her upkeep during her studies in the United Kingdom. The dummy cheques presented to her at a ceremony in Abuja were therefore symbolic of payments already made.
Obla had made the promise at a reception organised in Otukpo by the Association of Idoma Lawyers for newly elevated Senior Advocates of Nigeria of Idoma extraction, where he pledged to mentor and sponsor the first Idoma female to make a first class at the Nigerian Law School for postgraduate studies in any institution in the world.
“Today marks a fulfilment of that promise,” Obla told guests at the Abuja event.
