Vice-President Kashim Shettima has implored Israeli government to expand its scope of the Innovation Fellowship for Aspiring Inventors and Researchers initiative programme to benefit more Nigerian youths.
He commended i-FAIR initiative sponsored by Israel to have benefited young people, saying it should be scaled-up to enable more Nigerian youths benefit. “We will be like Oliver Twist; we want some more connection to the rest of the world, some more capita and mentorship with startups in Israel. “During the i-FAIR ceremony in March, 2024 the vice-president asked us to double the size of the programme.
The Executive-secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono, said the programme had been expanded through support from Israeli embassy in Nigeria.
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