Interswitch Offers 10 Aspiring Entrepreneurs One Year Full Scholarships To MEST

Interswitch helps tech and IT entrepreneurs to grow successful businesses and create jobs through better access to education and training

 Interswitch, the leading pan-African integrated payments company, has offered 10 aspiring Nigerian tech and IT entrepreneurs full year scholarships to the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Accra, Ghana.

The announcement follows the launch of the ‘Interswitch MEST’ partnership and will ensure Nigerian entrepreneurs are equipped with the skills they need to grow successful businesses. The Interswitch MEST programme will provide the entrepreneurs with practical training, investment and mentoring as they are encouraged to establish successful enterprises that will serve as vibrant platforms to further create wealth and jobs across Africa.

Interswitch MEST is a flagship initiative in support of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communication Technology’s ambition to develop world-class home-grown IT companies in Nigeria.

Last month Mr. Mitchell Elegbe, Group Managing Director, Interswitch Transnational Holdings, met with the entrepreneurs at Interswitch headquarters in Lagos. At the meet and greet he said:

“We’re very passionate about building technological capacity through our youth and as such are extremely proud to offer these gifted entrepreneurs the Interswitch MEST scholarship.  It is such a great pleasure to see so many skilled Nigerian entrepreneurs with the promise of developing successful enterprises.

“We hope that we can play our part in helping them to become leaders, grow Nigeria’s IT sector and create jobs, proving that African ingenuity is all that is needed to provide solutions to the continent’s IT needs.”

The Interswitch MEST partnership marks the first time that students outside Ghana have been offered the opportunity to study at MEST. The first year of the partnership will comprise Nigerian and Ghanaian students working side-by-side in the MEST Accra campus with new Nigerian faculty members being trained according to the curriculum. The second year will see all students, new faculty and some existing staff moving to the MEST campus in Lagos, Nigeria.

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