Airtel Africa Awards 100 Tech Scholarships To Nigerian Undergraduates

Airtel Africa Foundation, successful concern with Airtel Nigeria, has launched of a landmark assistance programme targeting Nigerian undergraduates successful technology-focused disciplines.
The initiative, unveiled astatine a caller property league successful Lagos by Airtel Africa chairman, Dr. Segun Ogunsanya, volition payment 100 students enrolled successful prime nationalist universities nationwide.

The Undergraduate Tech Scholarship Programme is designed to enactment students from their archetypal twelvemonth to graduation. Each assistance covers tuition, accommodation, survey materials, and includes a surviving stipend, thereby eliminating cardinal fiscal hurdles betwixt students and their world potential.
Eligible candidates are 100-level students admitted to Computer Science, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, and different ICT-related disciplines.

Partner institutions for this rollout see the University of Lagos (UNILAG), the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), the University of Benin (UNIBEN), the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), and Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED).

Speaking connected the initiative, Dr Ogunsanya emphasised that the programme reflects Airtel’s long-standing ngo to span accidental gaps for young Africans.

“At Airtel Africa Foundation, our imaginativeness has ever been to make opportunities wherever endowment meets ambition,” helium said. “With this scholarship, we are investing successful Nigeria’s aboriginal tech leaders, giving them the resources and assurance to thrive successful an progressively integer world.”

Similarly, the inaugural builds connected Airtel’s broader acquisition commitments successful Nigeria, which see partnerships specified arsenic the Reimagine Education Programme with UNICEF, the Adopt-A-School project, and its caller N1 cardinal concern successful the Federal Government’s 3 Million Technical Talent (3MTT) initiative.

Airtel Nigeria CEO, Dinesh Balsingh, described the caller assistance strategy arsenic a strategical hold of the company’s halfway values and societal work pillars.

“The prioritisation of acquisition arsenic a pillar of our societal investments becomes overmuch stronger with these 100 caller scholarships. They physique connected our ongoing enactment to alteration inclusive, high-quality learning and integer skills training. Ultimately, for america arsenic an organisation, the champion mode to equip the aboriginal is to limb it with cutting-edge education.” Balsingh stated.

The undergraduate assistance is simply a constituent of the Airtel Africa Foundation’s FEED strategy, which focuses connected Financial Inclusion, Education, Environmental Protection and Digital Inclusion. With integer translation shaping economies worldwide, this assistance programme represents a timely and targeted involution placing young Nigerians astatine the bosom of Africa’s tech-driven future.