The Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) code-back challenge is a crowd sourcing initiative for and by NHEF Scholars to create their ideal NHEF App. The NHEF seeks to create a continuous development community to stay engaged with its Scholars across all cohorts. We believe that no one knows our impact better than our Scholars themselves. Hence,

The Nigeria Higher Education Foundation held its inaugural essay competition in February 2015. The competition is aimed at harnessing young minds on issues of vital importance to Nigeria’s development. We received a lot of entries based on the topic of the recently concluded essay writing contest which was “ The Role of Higher Education in Strengthening Democracy in Nigeria”.

The Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) congratulates Wale Adeosun, president of the NHEF, on his appointment to the U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). As part of the U.S. Strategy toward Sub-Saharan Africa initiative, PAC-DBIA works through U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker to advise the White House. Mr. Adeosun is