Another set of 200 students in Nigeria is set to benefit from a scholarship scheme at the African School of Economics.
This is a new collaboration between the Renewed Hope Initiative, a project of Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu, and the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) NEPAD.
The National Coordinator, NEPAD, Ms Gloria Akobundu, and the Director of Communications, African School of Economics, ASE, Mr. Obinna Obiwulu, disclosed this on Wednesday, when they paid a courtesy call to the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Senator Oluremi Tinubu at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
As evident from the National Scholarship Programme, NASP, Tertiary Education, the project recently flagged off by the First Lady aimed at providing access to education, is one of the passions of Nigeria’s First Lady.
Excited to have the partnership, the First Lady described the opportunity for Nigerian students to have entrepreneurial education as what the nation needs at this time when many youths erroneously wait for white-collar jobs after their tertiary education.
Tinubu in a statement by her Special Adviser on Media, Busola Kukoyi, was quoted as saying, “In the developed world if you are not innovative enough then you will become jobless, so to have a school where entrepreneurship is being driven is very well thought out and commendable of the founder of Princeton University”
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According to Akobundu, the NEPAD strategic partnership is focusing on various sectors, in line with the objective of AUDA-NEPAD in the area accelerating of economic empowerment for women.
She said NEPAD is known for partnership with public and private sectors and for governance, development, and economic growth which she said are part of the focus that attracted them to work with RHI.
According to her, NEPAD which has now been transformed into the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) was a pledge by African leaders based on a common vision to eradicate poverty in the country.
“In line with our mandate, AUDA-NEPAD in partnership with ASE on development, economic, and resource mobilisation is offering a scholarship captioned to 200 children captioned: “Senator Remi Tinubu’s Scholarship Fund”, in partnership with the Renewed Hope Initiative mission.
“The project is designed to provide equal opportunity of access to the highest global standards of tertiary education to young Nigerians.
NEPAD is an economic development programme of the African Union. It was adopted by the African Union at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.
