Dangote offers jobs to LASU first-class graduates, pledges ₦600m girls’ hostel

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The commitments were announced on LASU’s Facebook page on Friday.

Dangote made the pledge during the combined 29th and 30th Convocation Ceremonies for the 2024/2025 and 2025/2026 academic sessions.

Dangote, who was represented at the ceremony by his daughter, Hajia Fatima Aliko Dangote, was also honoured with an Honorary Doctor of Business Honoris Causa in Entrepreneurship, Industrial and Human Capital Development.

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According to the university management, the foundation pledged the funds to support the construction of accommodation for female students.

It also disclosed that first-class graduates in Engineering and Sciences from the graduating classes would receive preferential consideration for employment with the Dangote Group after completing their National Youth Service Corps programme.

The university said, “First-class graduates in Engineering and Sciences from the graduating class would receive preferential consideration for employment with the Dangote Group after completing their National Youth Service Corps programme.”

The intervention was part of the commitments made towards student welfare, academic excellence and graduate opportunities during the combined convocation.

The Dangote Group currently employs more than 52,000 people across Nigeria and 11 other African countries, while the Dangote Academy provides practical training for graduates entering the industrial sector, according to information presented at the ceremony.

The Aliko Dangote Foundation also runs an education scholarship programme and plans to invest $70m annually over the next 10 years in secondary and tertiary education, teacher training, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, as well as technical and vocational education.

📰 Source: Punch Nigeria

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