PICFI Advances Youth Education with 70 New Scholarship Awards
By Wilson Macaulay
Petroleum Industry Christian Fellowship International(PICFI) has empowered 70 students cutting across different higher institutions in Nigeria with scholarship awards.
The awards which took place during the organization’s 21st Annual National Prayer Conference with the title:” Occupy Till I Come” was held on Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd October, 2025 at Petroleum Training Institute(PTI) Effurun, Delta State.
In her remarks, PICFI Zonal Co-ordinator and Chairman of Scholarship Awards Committee, Omosede Osafile said one of the goals of the PICFI is to partner with government and organizations to impact on the life of people in the organization’s host communities. According to her, PICFI aims at nurturing and coaching the younger generation for excellence in leadership, skills acquisition and education transformation. She said, the scholarship awards being presented is the second set of scholarship awards for students as the first one was done in 2019 with 49 scholars out of which, 42 students have graduated while 7 of them are still in school but they would graduate this year.
According to her, this year alone the organization received over 3000 applications but it has to scale down to 70 students who are awarded scholarship during the closing ceremony of the three days Conference . She said, the awardees are from parts of the country. She therefore appealed for members to play their part by way of sponsorship to make the organization achieve its set goals just as she thanked those who have contributed immensely by way of sponsorship since the inception of the programme.
In his remarks, Sola Adebawo a special guest at the event expressed gratitude to the leadership of PICFI for creating this platform where Christians from different oil and gas industries use the Kingdom of God for human capital development. He said, with the award of the day, the organization does not only celebrate scholarships but celebrate the hope of brighter future generations. According to him, the awards of the day are seeds of transformation and investment not just academic excellence, future generations, oil and gas industries but the country at large. According to him, education is an empowerment and stewardship adding, stewardship for the Christians is not optional but mandatory.
His words:” It is indeed an honour and privilege to stand before this distinguished gathering today, and l particularly thank the leadership of PICFI for creating this remarkable platform where faith meets industry,the kingdom of God intersects with human capital development. Today, we celebrate not just scholarship, we celebrate the hope of brighter tomorrow. These awards that are likely to be given today are seeds of transformation..”
He therefore charged those who are privileged to occupy good positions in their places of work to use same for the betterment of the less privileged in the society as they would not occupy such exalted offices for ever.
Presenting the scholarship awards to the awardees, the National President of the body, Bro. Shola Idowu said the award presented to awardees for the day is not accident but it is programmed by God Almighty. According to him, God is much interested in the awardees to excel not just in academics but in character adding that, the awardees will not only use the knowledge acquired through the scholarship awards to promote the organization (PICFI) but their various institutions, their parents and the country at large. His words:” Every thing is programmed by God.God’s interest in you is being demonstrated today. You will bring glory to your country. You will not just take the name of your parents, school but the name of PICFI to the world. You will not just excel academically but you will excel in character”
The National President charged the awards to make good use of opportunity to become somebody in life and promote the gospel of Christ wherever they find themselves.
In their response, the awardees promised to be of good behaviour just as they promised not disappoint the confidence repose on them in the awards. They expressed gratitude for the organization and promised to do best in promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ while they go about their academic work.
Present at the awards ceremony are captains of industries, entrepreneurs, academics, among whom is the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Prof. Ezekiel Agbalagba.
By Wilson Macaulay
Petroleum Industry Christian Fellowship International(PICFI) has empowered 70 students cutting across different higher institutions in Nigeria with scholarship awards.
The awards which took place during the organization’s 21st Annual National Prayer Conference with the title:” Occupy Till I Come” was held on Wednesday 1st to Friday 3rd October, 2025 at Petroleum Training Institute(PTI) Effurun, Delta State.
In her remarks, PICFI Zonal Co-ordinator and Chairman of Scholarship Awards Committee, Omosede Osafile said one of the goals of the PICFI is to partner with government and organizations to impact on the life of people in the organization’s host communities. According to her, PICFI aims at nurturing and coaching the younger generation for excellence in leadership, skills acquisition and education transformation. She said, the scholarship awards being presented is the second set of scholarship awards for students as the first one was done in 2019 with 49 scholars out of which, 42 students have graduated while 7 of them are still in school but they would graduate this year.
According to her, this year alone the organization received over 3000 applications but it has to scale down to 70 students who are awarded scholarship during the closing ceremony of the three days Conference . She said, the awardees are from parts of the country. She therefore appealed for members to play their part by way of sponsorship to make the organization achieve its set goals just as she thanked those who have contributed immensely by way of sponsorship since the inception of the programme.
In his remarks, Sola Adebawo a special guest at the event expressed gratitude to the leadership of PICFI for creating this platform where Christians from different oil and gas industries use the Kingdom of God for human capital development. He said, with the award of the day, the organization does not only celebrate scholarships but celebrate the hope of brighter future generations. According to him, the awards of the day are seeds of transformation and investment not just academic excellence, future generations, oil and gas industries but the country at large. According to him, education is an empowerment and stewardship adding, stewardship for the Christians is not optional but mandatory.
His words:” It is indeed an honour and privilege to stand before this distinguished gathering today, and l particularly thank the leadership of PICFI for creating this remarkable platform where faith meets industry,the kingdom of God intersects with human capital development. Today, we celebrate not just scholarship, we celebrate the hope of brighter tomorrow. These awards that are likely to be given today are seeds of transformation..”
He therefore charged those who are privileged to occupy good positions in their places of work to use same for the betterment of the less privileged in the society as they would not occupy such exalted offices for ever.
Presenting the scholarship awards to the awardees, the National President of the body, Bro. Shola Idowu said the award presented to awardees for the day is not accident but it is programmed by God Almighty. According to him, God is much interested in the awardees to excel not just in academics but in character adding that, the awardees will not only use the knowledge acquired through the scholarship awards to promote the organization (PICFI) but their various institutions, their parents and the country at large. His words:” Every thing is programmed by God.God’s interest in you is being demonstrated today. You will bring glory to your country. You will not just take the name of your parents, school but the name of PICFI to the world. You will not just excel academically but you will excel in character”
The National President charged the awards to make good use of opportunity to become somebody in life and promote the gospel of Christ wherever they find themselves.
In their response, the awardees promised to be of good behaviour just as they promised not disappoint the confidence repose on them in the awards. They expressed gratitude for the organization and promised to do best in promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ while they go about their academic work.
Present at the awards ceremony are captains of industries, entrepreneurs, academics, among whom is the Vice Chancellor, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Prof. Ezekiel Agbalagba.
