The National Investment (NIB) has supported the Vice-Chancellor’s Business and Innovation Award 2021 with an amount of GHS 15,000.00.

This year’s event which was held on October 28, 2021, at the UDS Multi-Purpose Auditorium, Tamale Campus was the second in the series of the annual event during which three students of the University for Development Students (UDS) were adjudged winners. Mr. Hashim Attakurah Suleman, the CEO of Bridgewater Facilities Management, was the Guest of Honour. 

The Awardees, Mr. Alhassan Abdul-Rashid Wumpini, a final year Development Education Studies student, MsTiku Chantal Atut, a graduate student at the Department of Agricultural Engineering, and Ms. Charlotte Tiesaah, a Biotechnology student, who graduated this year, received GH¢ 15,000.00 each to implement their business ideas.

The Vice-Chancellor’s Business Innovation Award formed part of the activities of the Business Innovation and Incubation Centre (BIIC) of the UDS to develop an entrepreneurial mindset among the youth, especially students of the UDS, and to strengthen University private sector relationships. The students/graduates, whose business ideas fall in areas of agriculture production and nutrition, will be supported by the BIIC of UDS to develop their ideas into viable business ventures. Plans are also underway by the BIIC to support business ventures in other areas in subsequent years.