The United Kingdom government has chosen the first tertiary institution in Nigeria, Yaba College of Technology, in a collaboration to promote and implement Girls Education Skills Programs (GESP).
The program is in a bid to empower Nigerian women through education and this was emphasized at a dinner organized in honour of the United Kingdom Prime Minister’s Special Envoy on Girls’ Education led by Helen Grant MP, OBE, to Nigeria recently.
The dinner, hosted by the British Deputy High Commissioner in Nigeria, Jonny Baxter, was an avenue to project the vital roles of education in empowering Nigerian women and modalities for its implementation in the upcoming partnership program.
Yaba College of Technology is poised to play significant roles in the implementation of the Girls Education Skills Programs.
At the dinner, was the representative of the Rector, Yaba College of Technology, Dr. Engr. Ibraheem Abdul, Dr. Oluwafunmilayo Doherty, Ag. Director, Research Support and Grant Management in the college