By Funmi Ogundare
A team of American universities and partners are organising strategic fund-raising campaign initiative to equip administrators of Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions with real-time skills on how to raise funds for operating their institutions.
The initiative tagged: ‘Strategic Fund Raising and Capital Campaign (SFCC)’ summit will comprise series of webinars and a hybrid summit holding at Minnesota State University Moorhead (MSUN) in Minnesota, United States.
The Head of the Nigerian team and Chairman of the Advisory Board for the summit, Professor Jibrila Dahiru Amin, in a statement made available to THISDAY yesterday, said the initiative was aimed at inculcating the culture of fundraising in universities and other tertiary institutions.
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