Obi Cubana, a Nigerian socialite, has offered a scholarship and job to Ekuma Jeremiah, a Lagos hawker who went viral for handing inmates money.
Jeremiah recently went popular on social media after he was photographed handing money to detainees inside a Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) truck in Ajah, Lagos State.
The hawker was seen in a popular video carrying a crate of bottled water on his head while handing the detainees “70 percent” of the money he had made.
Obi Cubana said Jeremiah’s actions were worthy of emulation during an Instagram live session with media personality Daddy Freeze on Saturday, offering to support his tertiary education at any university of his choice.
The 46-year-old club owner also gave Jeremiah a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity as well as mentoring to help him grow as a person.
He said, “I am offering him a lifetime opportunity, he has to go to school I think that is his ambition. I will see him through the university and if he wants to do Masters abroad, I will make sure he is comfortable while going to school because like I said earlier, that is the best we can do for him.”
“He will do University, anything he wants, and then by God’s grace I know I will still be standing by the time he is done with school, he has a place in any of my organizations at the top level and if by God’s grace he finds a higher calling, you see there is nothing tied to this, I do not expect anything in return.
”I am not giving any conditions for this but if he chooses not to go back to school we can now hear what he wants to do and then we see him through.
The most important thing is to know that he has in me a mentor, he has in me a life guide. I will make it easy for him through God so I believe that God will give me health and strength.
“The guy will go to any University of his choice in good condition not just to pay school fees. He has a heart of gold. This is the kind of people we need.
“I pray that people will do eye service to get my attention, let them do this kind of thing, in doing that you don’t know when you get used to it the world becomes a better place”.
