The things that do not fit neatly into a case study. A FUTA scholarship that has kept 300+ students in school for nine years. Brand work across Nigeria. Photography. The parts of the portfolio that show who I am when nobody is watching.
The FUTASU Indigent Scholarship
In 2017, I was elected Welfare Director of FUTASU, the Federal University of Technology Akure Students Union. The cost of schooling was rising and students were dropping out. Not because they failed. Because they could not pay their fees.
I did not have a personal connection to the problem. I could pay my own fees. But I could see what was happening around me and I had one year of institutional power to do something about it. So I used it.
We partnered with the Student Affairs Division to identify indigent students, those who had already reached out for help or been flagged as at risk. In the first year, 46 students received ₦690,000. When my term ended, I sat down with the incoming Welfare Director and walked them through the structure: how we identified students, how the funding worked, what needed to happen each year. One conversation. That was the handover.
Every Welfare Director since has run the programme. Notable editions include Aderibigbe Halleluyah's ₦750,000 disbursement in 2018/2019, Christopher Oghenewogaga's support for 50 students in 2020/2021, and Samuel Adeyemo's ₦1.32 million to 40 students in 2022/2023.
The scholarship did not survive on institutional memory alone. A network of FUTA alumni, coordinated by Idede Osesky Oseyande with consistent backing from Alumni President Olaitan Adesomoju and prominent donors including Adelabu Particular, Speaker Bankole, Biyi Agboola, and Hon. Bode, stepped in to fund editions when the union could not. The scholarship created its own community of people who believed in it enough to keep it alive.
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