The Nigerian First Lady’s Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI) in collaboration with the African Union Development Agency (AUDA NEPAD) is offering another batch of 200 students in Nigeria scholarships at the African School of Economics.
The National Coordinator, NEPA, Gloria Akobundu and Obinna Obiwulu, the Director of Communications, African School of Economics (ASE) disclosed this during a visit to the Wife of the Present, Oluremi Tinubu, at the State House, Abuja recently.
The scholarship programme, one The First Lady’s pet projects, is targeted at providing many students acess to entrepreneurship ducation.
Excited to have the partnership, the First Lady said the opportunity for Nigerian students to get entrepreneurial education would benefit Nigeria at this time as many youths endlessly wait for unavailable white collar jobs after their tertiary education.
In her words, ” 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”
For her part, Akobundu said the NEPAD strategic partnership is focusing on various sectors, in line with the objective of AUDA-NEPAD in the area of accelerating economic empowerment for women.
She noted that 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.
Accorsing to her,, NEPAD which has now been transformed to the African Union Development Agency (AUDA) was a pledge by African leaders based on 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 scholarship captioned to 200 children captioned “Sen. 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.
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