NICE-SA UNILAG
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Official account for the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers - Student Affiliate, UNILAG Chapter. #ForABetterCESSociety
UNILAG students are being pushed out of housing—priced out of hostels that should be built to accommodate them.
Officially reintroducing myself as a student who’s keen in learning and carrying others along. As someone who’s curious on how things works in the civil engineering sector I got to learn how to use AutoCAD. And In the same space I’m a mobile photographer.
Yesterday marked a monumental step in how we prepare Nigerian students for the future. With the launch of the Entrepreneurship, Innovation & Business Incubation Certification (#EIBIC) programme, we are not just introducing another course in our universities — we are changing lives and reshaping how students build, innovate, and create. EIBIC is now being implemented in 14 universities nationwide, equipping students with the entrepreneurial skills, mentorship, and incubation support needed to turn ideas into real ventures — even before graduation. A key part of this initiative is strong collaboration with the private sector, whose partnership will be critical in providing mentorship, industry exposure, incubation support, and pathways to funding for student innovators. And we are already seeing the impact. At the University of Lagos — the first university to implement the programme — 8 out of the 10 students selected from UNILAG as finalists in the Federal Ministry of Education’s Student Venture Capital Grant (SVCG) are EIBIC students. That is exactly the pipeline we envisioned: EIBIC nurtures the ideas, and SVCG provides the capital to help them grow. This is how we move from classrooms to companies, from ideas to impact, and from graduates to job creators. Nigeria’s next generation of founders is already emerging — and this is only the beginning.
