ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2019
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. In the three months the application was open in 2019, over 7,000 young leaders applied to join the Class of 2019 on 1,209 campuses across 135 nations. 69 campuses worldwide (just 6%) were selected to host the 805 Millennium Fellows.
During the Millennium Fellowship, Millennium Fellows' dedicated 96,705 hours and their 422 unique projects positively impacted the lives of 564,366 people worldwide.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT IBRAHIM OLASUNKANMI BELLO, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2019.
Ahmadu Bello University | Zaria, Nigeria | Advancing SDG 4 & UNAI 2
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow because to be selected as one of the global student leaders that are making a difference having gone through a lot in social entrepreneurship on and off-campus. The works of my labor are paying off. Moreover, the fellowship would give me the chance to do what I knew how to do the best network and leverage on the pool of alumni for corporate and social entrepreneurship to advance the SDG's in every nook and cranny of the globe. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: STEM Coders Club
STEM Coders Club provides the avenue for the student to augment their computational knowledge, this semester we hope to increase our membership by 110 students and raise up to $500 for grants. STEM Coders learning by execution training scheme make student involve in career and entrepreneurship developments. STEM Coders put students to work on a project that solves contemporary problems in society with the knowledge of computing gained. We are on the verge of changing the African narrative of being an unsophisticated society to that of an urbane and of great minds that would, in turn, be corporate and social leaders in Information technology. Currently, 30 students so far have been impacted directly. After recruitments, members would be subdivided into a group of 10 members each, working on a project to evaluate knowledge learned thus far and as well as solve contemporary problems in the community.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ibrahim Bello is a major of electronics & telecommunications engineering at Ahmadu Bello University. Ibrahim currently serves as the president of STEM Coders club, ABU, Zaria. He led the Northern Nigerian students to various local and international functions, among them are the corporate presentation of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch 2018 and 2019, Development finance training under the auspices of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of finance in collaboration with Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Africa (SEO Africa), Accra-Ghana.
