Yale alumni offer Nigerian students scholarships ---Punch

Nigerians, who studied at the Yale University, Connecticut, United States of America, have pledged to initiate a scholarship scheme that will support exceptional Nigerian students to attend the Ivy League institution.

 The offer is coming under the auspices of the Yale Club in Nigeria.

The club President, Dr. Haroun Adamu, made this known when old students of the institution met in Lagos recently.

According to Adamu, one of the aims of the club is to attract more Nigerian students to the institution and encourage other accomplished alumni members in the Diaspora to return and contribute their quota to Nigeria’s development.

 Adamu, who graduated from the university in 1966, added that the club would sensitise Nigerians about its willingness to assist them in securing admission and scholarship opportunities in the ivory tower.

 He said, “Any student that went through the rigorous Yale examination process and emerged successful, automatically deserves a scholarship. There is no question about his ability. He is on scholarship automatically.”

Adamu added, “We intend to create a forum, organise lectures, and we will invite professors and Nobel laureates to come and share with us, their latest research findings in all fields. This will expose Nigerians to what is happening in the world of research. These are the kinds of things we are trying to achieve, apart from Yale itself trying to engage with institutions within Africa.”

Yale’s Director of International Activities, Ian Shapiro, also said that the club was working on developing a scholarship scheme for Nigerian students to attend the university.