Jim Ovia to Chair Tinubu’s Schooling Mortgage Fund

Jim Ovia to Chair Tinubu’s Schooling Mortgage Fund

President Bola Tinubu has authorized the appointment of Mr. Jim Ovia, CFR, famend banker and businessman, because the Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Schooling Mortgage Fund (NELFUND).

Mr. Ovia is the founding father of one among Nigeria’s main banks and a revered enterprise chief, with a surfeit of efforts and benefaction in direction of nurturing and empowering younger Nigerians.

He’s an alumnus of Harvard Enterprise College and holds a Grasp’s in Enterprise Administration from the College of Louisiana.

The Nationwide Pupil Mortgage Programme is a pivotal intervention that seeks to ensure sustainable larger schooling and useful ability growth for all Nigerian college students and youths.

The Nigerian Schooling Mortgage Fund, the implementing establishment of this innovation, calls for excellence and Nigerians of the best skilled ilk to information and handle.

The President believes Mr. Ovia will convey his immense wealth of expertise {and professional} stature to this function to advance the all-important imaginative and prescient of guaranteeing that no Nigerian pupil suffers a capricious finish to their pursuit of upper schooling over an absence of funds and of guaranteeing that Nigerian youths, regardless of who they’re, have entry to larger schooling and expertise that may make them productive members of society and core contributors to the knowledge-based international economic system of this century.