Ejiro Gray, Director, Governance and Sustainability
Sod-turning of Sahara Group School of Innovation and Extrapreneurship constructing
Sod-turning of Sahara Group School of Innovation and Extrapreneurship constructing
Sahara Group’s School of Innovation and Extrapreneurship on the University of Lagos to function a platform for selling innovations and options in Africa.
— Ejiro Gray, Director, Governance and Sustainability
LAGOS, NIGERIA, October 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ —
Leading vitality and infrastructure conglomerate, Sahara Group has introduced the institution of the Sahara School of Innovation and Extrapreneurship on the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka to function a platform for selling innovations and options that may facilitate sustainable growth and global competitiveness in Africa.
Ejiro Gray, Director, Governance and Sustainability at Sahara Group stated Sahara would collaborate with UNILAG to make the varsity a world class facility that may proffer options to future challenges right now, with emphasis on areas like the way forward for vitality, entrepreneurship, knowledge science, digital arts and tradition, synthetic intelligence and robotics, and fintech, amongst others.
The sod-turning ceremony of the proposed college held on Friday October 28, 2022. “This project reinforces our commitment to giving back always and serves as one of Sahara Group’s contributions towards building a formidable legacy for sustainable development. For over 26 years, innovation and extraprenuership have driven Sahara’s growth across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are confident that working with the University of Lagos, a foremost institution of global repute, the school would deliver sustainable value for the benefit of Africa and the world at large,” stated Gray whose directorate would drive the venture..
Commending Sahara Group for the initiative, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, FAS, acknowledged it’s notably gladdening that the drivers of the venture are alumni of the University from completely different Faculties who’ve by their achievements, individually and collectively, demonstrated to the world the standard of UNILAG merchandise. He famous that the Sahara Group School of Innovation and Extrapreneurship venture hallmarks the repositioning of UNILAG as a “University of The Future”, a imaginative and prescient that has formed its pursuits during the last 5 years and informs its sixtieth anniversary theme: UNILAG@60: Eyes on the Future.
“We, at the University of Lagos are committed to building on our heritage of excellence to continue to produce graduates that are locally relevant and globally-competitive as the alumni before us today. We aim to instill in our students, more than ever, the culture of innovation, entrepreneurship,” the VC added.
Gray stated a timeline of 24 months has been set for the completion of the venture with clear sustainability indices by way of seamless upkeep, inclusiveness, transparency, relevance and scalability of modules/innovations, entry to strategic/monetary advisory and collaboration for regional and global impression.
She additionally introduced the launch of the Sahara Scholar Award geared toward “energising excellence” by means of rewards to college college students with excellent efficiency in choose disciplines. The Sahara Scholar Award will start from the University of Lagos as a pilot scheme, and progressively broaden in scope throughout Africa.
“The unique thing about the first phase of the Sahara Scholar Award is that it is wholly funded by the Group Executive Directors of the Sahara Group as a way of giving back to the University of Lagos where most of them received their university education and some also had parents who taught at the university. The award will be N1 million yearly for each category, including provision for annual sponsorship of exchange programmes for lecturers within Africa,” she added.
Categories below the Sahara Scholar Award embrace one-off prizes for 26 excellent college students to mark Sahara Group’s twenty sixth anniversary, Temitope Shonubi prize for Best Improved Student in Architecture, Moroti Adedoyin-Adeyinka Prize for Best Graduating Student in Economics, Wale Ajibade Prize for Best Improved Student in Economics, Ade Odunsi Prize for Best Student in Finance, and Kola Adesina Prize for Best Graduating Student in Business Management.
Others are: Dr. Folashodun Shonubi Prize for Best Graduating Student in Mechanical Engineering, Zacchaeus Odunsi Prize for Best Entry Level Student in Civil Engineering, Mr. Adegoke Adeniji Prize for Best Graduating Student in Library and Information Science, Dr. John Falegan Prize for Best Graduating Student in Insurance and Actuarial Science, Asharami Prize for Best AI/Fintech invention and Sahara Group Prize for Best Entrepreneurial Dissertation in Architecture, Engineering, and Economics.
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