LAGOS – The United Nations has appointed the Lagos State College (LASU) as a co-Chair for its United Nations Impression (UNAI) Sustainable Improvement Aim 7 Hub (SDG7).
In accordance with the most recent launch from the varsity’s Centre for Data and Public Relations (CIPR), the appointment will see LASU play a key management function in fostering the strategic engagement of upper schooling to the Sustainable Improvement Targets within the African area.
Maher Nasser, the Director, Outreach Division of the Division of World Communications of the United Nations, in a letter dated twenty second December 2024, conveyed the LASU’s appointment as one of many two Co-Chairs from over 330 functions obtained from greater establishments globally.
The letter reads partly:
“Lagos State College was chosen based mostly on its regional advocacy and collaboration with world establishments to profit native populations.
“Between its main function in productive conferences addressing the SDGs and its sturdy educational give attention to sustainable improvement, the College has proven its alignment with the imaginative and prescient of SDG 7.”
Following this improvement, LASU might be inaugurated alongside KEPA, Greece, as co-Chairs of SDG7Hub at a digital assembly of UNAI SDG Hub Chairs on twenty second January 2025 at 9:00 a.m to serve for 3 years from January, 2025 to December, 2027.
UNAI is an initiative that connects greater academic establishments with the United Nations with the targets of supporting the United Nations’ functions and ideas, selling human rights, guaranteeing entry to schooling, fostering sustainability, and resolving conflicts.
UNAI’s community of over 1,600 member establishments in additional than 150 international locations connects college students, researchers, scientists, and lecturers so as to obtain the Sustainable Improvement Targets (SDGs) by producing new concepts and options to world challenges.
The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, mni, NPOM has promptly congratulated the Director, Centre for the Actualisation of the SDGs, Prof. Tayo Ajayi and his staff for his or her efforts in making the appointment a actuality.
