ISAAC, an initiative of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, senatorial aspirant for Ekiti north senatorial district, Mr. Bayo Adetifa, through his foundation; Bayo Adetifa Liberty Foundation, BALF, also lunched a N10 million education endowment fund to offer scholarship to Ekiti indigenes in higher institutions across the country.
Adetifa promised to introduce more innovative programmes that would improve the education and entrepreneurship standard of Ekiti youths in other for them to compete with their counterparts from other states and countries.
"The objective of ISAAC is to build the youths and make them more productive, rather than relying on the government and also make them less dependent on politicians who may like to manipulate them for selfish gains in the upcoming 2011 election", he said.
During the academic exercise, the participants will be trained on how to write proposal to seek for funds, prepare accounting records, manage project. While the remaining days, the students will be send on SWESS so that they can practice what they have learn in the centre and further make money for them.
The centre will be affiliated with a very reputable university anywhere in the world prior to the issuance of license to Mcbay University by National University Commission, NUC, to operate, so that the entrepreneurship skill in Ekiti youth can be fully developed quickly.
News culled from Vanguard News Website Nigeria
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