Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR AFRICA) grants 22 Nigerian University and Tertiary Institutions, 5.5BillionNaira for Infrastructure development under its tertiary education grants scheme – ASR Africa
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The Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative (ASR Africa) today, announced a N5.5billion grant to 22 universities and institutions of higher learning across Nigeria of 250million Naira each towards infrastructure projects under its ASR Africa Tertiary Education Grants Scheme (TEGS). Prior to this announcement, about 8 Universities had benefitted from the ASR Africa TEGS Scheme with some of the projects nearing completion.Abdul Samad Rabiu, Chairman of ASR Africa and BUA Group, said: At ASR Africa, we believe in Africas capacity to leapfrog the development divide through the SDGs. Good, quality investments in education is one of the ways through which we can achieve that. This is why education remains one of the three focal areas for ASR Africas interventions in Nigeria, and Africa and our investments in infrastructure for tertiary institutions are showing good promise.Announcing the selected institutions, Ubon Udoh, Managing Director of ASR Africa said that the 22 beneficiary institutions for the 5.5 billion Naira ASR Africa Tertiary Education Grants were chosen across Nigeria, based on carefully selected criteria. According to Udoh, the next phase under our grants framework would be project selection and development of mutual accountability frameworks with respective universities.