National Institute for Legislative Studies (NILS) and Johns Hopkins
University, United States of America, have reach a pact that would bring
the university into Nigeria's educational system beginning with
executive education programmes.
This was made known by the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the Governing Council of NILS, Ike Ekweremadu, during the signing of a communiqué on the decisions reached at the three-day meeting.
The meeting was between the NILS and a delegation of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Abuja, on Tuesday evening.
Giving insights into the major decisions reached at meeting, Ekweremadu said: "We just witnessed the culmination of your visit to Nigeria by signing the first document between the NILS on behalf of the National Assembly and Nigeria and the Johns Hopkins University.
"The signing of the document will lead to many successful stories in the collaboration between your institution and our people.
"Let me just say that, in a nutshell, we have agreed to work together to bring the Johns Hopkins best educational traditions to Nigeria. We hope that the certificate programmes will start very soon, hopefully leading to first degrees and higher degrees in the future".
Ekweremadu, who described the NILS/Johns Hopkins pact as "a very big milestone in our education and capacity building in Nigeria and the sub region", expressed confidence that "many good things will evolve from this relationship.
"Most importantly, we are going to see the Johns Hopkins traditions have a foothold in Nigeria".
In her remarks, the Associate Dean for Executive Education and Strategic Initiatives at SAIS, Melisa Trotta, said the Abuja meeting was able to "structurally lay the groundwork for the future of our educational programming with NILS.
"We are very enthusiastic to begin taking the first steps towards building the executive education programme here in Nigeria and back in Washington as well, for your constituents, for your legislators and we look very forward to the next steps in the process", Trotta added.
- Daily Independent
This was made known by the Deputy President of the Senate and Chairman of the Governing Council of NILS, Ike Ekweremadu, during the signing of a communiqué on the decisions reached at the three-day meeting.
The meeting was between the NILS and a delegation of the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University in Abuja, on Tuesday evening.
Giving insights into the major decisions reached at meeting, Ekweremadu said: "We just witnessed the culmination of your visit to Nigeria by signing the first document between the NILS on behalf of the National Assembly and Nigeria and the Johns Hopkins University.
"The signing of the document will lead to many successful stories in the collaboration between your institution and our people.
"Let me just say that, in a nutshell, we have agreed to work together to bring the Johns Hopkins best educational traditions to Nigeria. We hope that the certificate programmes will start very soon, hopefully leading to first degrees and higher degrees in the future".
Ekweremadu, who described the NILS/Johns Hopkins pact as "a very big milestone in our education and capacity building in Nigeria and the sub region", expressed confidence that "many good things will evolve from this relationship.
"Most importantly, we are going to see the Johns Hopkins traditions have a foothold in Nigeria".
In her remarks, the Associate Dean for Executive Education and Strategic Initiatives at SAIS, Melisa Trotta, said the Abuja meeting was able to "structurally lay the groundwork for the future of our educational programming with NILS.
"We are very enthusiastic to begin taking the first steps towards building the executive education programme here in Nigeria and back in Washington as well, for your constituents, for your legislators and we look very forward to the next steps in the process", Trotta added.
- Daily Independent
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