Nigeria excluded from HBS programme over damaging picture — Obi

Labour Occasion (LP) chieftain, Peter Obi, has expressed unhappiness over the exclusion of Nigeria from the Harvard Enterprise Faculty (HBS) class of 2025 programme.

Obi, in a press release on Wednesday, stated Nigeria’s exclusion from such a high-profile programme is an indication of the nation’s damaging picture.

“Nigeria’s damaging picture was on show as Harvard Enterprise Faculty’s class of 2025 programme has chosen 16 international locations for its world immersion course however notably excluded Nigeria, regardless of this system chief being a Nigerian professor,” he lamented.

“As an alternative, Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, and Ghana have been chosen because the 4 African focus international locations for this initiative.”

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The programme, Obi stated, goals to show college students management, teamwork, and cross-cultural understanding by immersing them in numerous continents, cultures, and areas.

“The scholars have chosen Nairobi, Kenya as their first desire and have been connected to varied Kenyan corporations to check and current options to real-world issues,” Obi added.

The Labour Occasion candidate throughout the 2023 presidential election stated Nigeria’s omission is especially hanging given the nation’s potential and capabilities.

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“Sadly, Nigeria’s status and attractiveness to worldwide establishments and traders has lately been severely impacted by main apparent drawbacks,” he lamented.

Based on him, the HBS class of 2025 program demonstrates the ability of collaboration and information sharing between establishments and international locations.

He’s, nevertheless, hopeful that Nigeria will pay attention to these shortcomings and try to enhance its status and attractiveness inside at present’s world neighborhood.

“That’s the problem of the brand new Nigeria that is still ever attainable,” the previous governor of Anambra State added.