Education hub opens in Lekki

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Ehizua Hub, a social enterprise, has officially opened a first of its kind education and creative technology hub in Lekki area of Lagos State.

Its founder, Mr. Matthias Ehizua,  said the hub hopes to make online learning of creative technology programmes easily accessible in Nigeria and Africa through University Admissions and Scholarship, Corporate accelerator programmes and global opportunities.

Explaining the motivation behind setting up an education and creative Hub in Lagos, Ehizua, an Edutech professional with over 12 years  experience, said he desired to help young minds in Africa secure better education and job opportunities globally.

“Access to affordable quality education and fostering innovation and entrepreneurship are best ways to achieve inclusive and equal education with enhanced graduate outcomes in Africa and beyond. These beliefs drive the founding values of Ehizua Hub,” he said.

The CEO further stressed that “Ehizua Hub also has a skills-based training with the aim of making participants engage in skills-based and in- demand Industry-focused training that can immediately be applicable in a job”.

He further stated that the university admission programme aims at facilitating universities admissions, scholarship and online programme delivery for short programmes, undergraduate programmes and post graduate programmes.

“The Corporate accelerator programme and corporate venture capital (CVC) aim is to provide a combination of education, investment, mentoring and networking for participants, providing support for start-ups (early-stage companies) or scale up company (companies that have found product/market fit) early-stage start-up companies through start-up capital, mentorship and office space”.

Also speaking at the unveiling, the Ehizua Hub manager, Mr Adenekan Adewole said: “One of the highpoints for me is the fact that our facility is designed to help students experience real time classroom interaction’’

Source: The Nations newspaper