Popular businessman and socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, well known as Obi Cubana, has offered a university scholarship to Ekuma Jeremiah, the Lagos hawker who was seen in a viral video giving money to inmates inside a van of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) bus in the Ajah area Lagos State.

Jeremiah had made headlines after he gave out some of the money he had made to inmates inside the NCS van in Lagos.

However, Obi Cubana, who was recently grilled by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over his alleged link to illegal narcotic business, announced a scholarship for the bottled water hawker in an Instagram live with media personality, Daddy Freeze, on Saturday.

Announcing the scholarship, the socialite added that Jeremiah would be employed in any of his companies after the completion of his undergraduate program in the university.

Obi Cubana 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.

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“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 organisations 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.”

He added: “The most important thing is to know that he has in me a mentor, he has in me a life guide in me. 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,” the socialite stated.

TheStar