AUDA-NEPAD partners Renewed Hope Initiative to offer more tertiary scholarships
Another set of 200 students in Nigeria is set to benefit from scholarship at the African School of Economics.
This is a new collaboration between the Renewed Hope Initiative (RHI), a project of Nigeria’s First Lady, Senator Oluremi Tinubu; and African Union Development Agency (AUDA NEPAD).
This was disclosed during a courtesy visit to Tinubu by the NEPAD’s National Coordinator, Ms. Gloria Akobundu; and Director of Communications of the African School of Economics (ASE), Mr. Obinna Obiwulu, at the State House, Abuja on Wednesday.
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.
“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”, she said.
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 explained, are part of the focus that attracted them to work with RHI.
According to her, NEPAD, which has now been transformed to 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 ‘Senator Remi Tinubu’s Scholarship Fund, in partnership with the RHI’s 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 (AU). It was adopted by AU at the 37th session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments in July 2001 in Lusaka, Zambia.
