Founder, Children of Africa Leadership & Values Development Initiative (CALDEV), Honourable Bamidele Salam and his wife, has awarded scholarships to 16 students from the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp.
Salam made this pledge at the 2023 National Children’s Leadership Conference organized by CALDEV which held November 17 to 20, in Abuja.
The scholarship which takes effect from January 2024, awards the students, in both primary and secondary schools, a N200, 000 scholarship each year till their graduation from primary and secondary schools.
Impressed by the children’s performance at the conference, the lawmaker said, “I wish them the very best. They have been a wonderful part of the conference and did very well.”
Commending Salam and CALDEV for their efforts, the federal commissioner and chief executive officer (CEO) of the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Aliyu Tijani Ahmed, said both have supported the commission in attending to its mandate.
