Kaduna State Government has welcomed the 16 young men and women who constitute the third set of the Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship.
The fellows have been selected by merit from a pool of many applicants from across Nigeria, in a process that demonstrated that merit can be an enabler of diversity.
“It is now in their hands to make the most of the opportunities this one-year programme will offers,” the state government said in a statement on Wednesday.
It said the first two sets of the Kashim Ibrahim Fellowship have amply justified the hopes we invested in them, giving a good account of themselves in the MDAs to which they were posted, demonstrating intellectual acuity in their training programmes and showing a commitment to the public good.
“Jemimah Jatau, who emerged as the best of the first set of fellows, has resumed at the Harvard Kennedy School for a master’s programme, on full scholarship from the Kaduna State Government.
“The best fellow from the second set has also been awarded a full post-graduate scholarship. We have no doubt that the members of the third cohort of the fellowship will live up to these standards and sustain the tradition.”
