The Chairman of Leaders and Company Limited and Arise Networks, Mr. Nduka Obaigbena, has endowed $10,000 each, for three best graduating students of Bridge House College, Ikoyi, Lagos, in fashion design, technology and innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Obaigbena, who is the Editor-in Chief of THISDAY Newspaper, while speaking at this year's prize-giving day ceremony and lecture of the college, said the prizes would take effect next year.
He urged Nigerians to support education, because "without education, we cannot build the nation that we envisioned."
He said the three areas are currently underplayed in the country, hence the need to emphasise them and encourage youths to look towards those areas.
On the importance of fashion design, he said the economy of France and New York is driven by fashion, adding that Nigerian fashion designers are currently conquering the world.
"We will endow the Arise Magazine Prize for Fashion Design, $10,000 a year, and the winner will attend the New York Fashion Week. The second area is technology, the school will have to look at its curriculum and figure out how to promote technology and innovation. We will endow another prize for the best graduating student in technology and innovation.
"It will be called the THISDAY Prize for Technology and Innovation and that person will take one of the three slots at the Clinton Global Initiative University Summer School, offered us by former US President, Bill Clinton," he said.
He stressed the need to groom entrepreneurs to create jobs so as to address the problem of unemployment, which he described as the biggest issue facing the world today.
"We have to create jobs by encouraging entrepreneurship. We will endow another prize to encourage young people to be entrepreneurs and that will also be $10,000 and that person will take the second slot at the Clinton Global Initiative University Summer School in Texas from next year," Obaigbena said.
For the third slot, he said the college would decide and choose the beneficiary among the current graduands.
Earlier, Executive Director of the college, Mrs. Foluke Abdulrazaq, had said the college was established to be the firm academic bridge for students, who desire a comprehensive sixth form education, preparatory to securing admission into some of the best universities in the world.
"I am pleased to report that the current graduating class has excelled academically; from a total of 189 students, 158 or 84 per cent have secured provisional admission to top UK universities and 16 per cent are proceeding to universities in Canada, US, Hungary, Nigeria and Ghana," she stated.
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