10 years: ₦1.2bn, 40+ tertiary institutions by 2026, OPay is here to stay

For a Nigerian student, a assistance tin mean much than money.

It tin mean staying successful schoolhouse erstwhile a household is struggling to wage fees. It tin mean being capable to ore connected lectures alternatively of worrying astir however the adjacent semester volition beryllium funded. For immoderate families, it tin beryllium the quality betwixt a young idiosyncratic completing a grade and having to enactment acquisition connected hold.

What started arsenic a semipermanent committedness to students crossed 20 tertiary institutions is present taking different measurement forward. With the signing of a caller Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Miva Open University, the OPay N1.2bn 10-year assistance programme, which sits successful the broader OPay Scholars Programme, alongside the OPay National Innovation Challenge successful concern with Google and 3MTT, and OPay Futures, present has 25 spouse tertiary institutions.

But determination is much to come. OPay plans to widen the programme to 16 further tertiary institutions by the extremity of 2026, bringing the full fig of institutions covered to 41. For thousands of young Nigerians and their families, these numbers are not simply figures. They correspond opportunities.

A committedness beyond a cheque

Education enactment successful Nigeria is often associated with one-of...