The Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Ikeja Branch, invites you to the graduation ceremony of the 2025 Adigun Arewa Mentorship Scheme, NIBAAMS cohort.
The event will be held on Saturday, May 30, 2026, at the NSE Ikeja Branch Secretariat (Plot 32 Oba Ogunji Road, beside AP Filling Station, Pen Cinema, Agege), starting at 9:00 AM.
The event celebrates the successful completion of a six-month structured mentorship and capacity-building programme focused on professional development, career growth, industry readiness, leadership, and personal transformation—all designed to shape the next generation of engineering professionals.
Eighty-five mentees and 34 mentors enrolled in the programme, with 68 mentees and 27 mentors reaching the completion stage. Over six months, participants logged more than 1,000 verified one-on-one mentoring sessions and attended seven high-impact capacity-building sessions.
The programme’s focus areas—career development, mentorship, industry exposure, leadership, professional skills development, employment referrals, and career advancement—reflect a deliberate effort to bridge the gap between engineering education and industry reality.
In a country where engineering graduates frequently find that the system offers them little reason to stay—underpaid, undervalued, and institutionally invisible—a structured programme that connects young engineers with experienced mentors, creates verified touchpoints, and actively supports career placement is an intervention that matters.
Attendees can expect award presentations, recognition of outstanding participants, testimonials, programme impact highlights, and networking sessions.
The Chief Host is Engr. Nimot Muili, Chairman of the NSE Ikeja Branch, and the Host is Engr. Peter Ogunbowale, Chairman of the RPJD Committee.
It would be easy to view this event in isolation as a day of handshakes and certificates. But the NIBAAMS programme sits within a much larger and more urgent conversation about the future of engineering in Nigeria.
Nigeria is producing trained engineers and technologists with real potential, yet the system frequently fails them with fractional pay, a lack of departmental structures, and no clear pathway to sustained employment. The most talented often make a rational calculation: they leave the profession, leave the country, or redirect their skills.
NIBAAMS serves as a counter-argument to that pattern. It is a structured insistence that young Nigerian engineers deserve mentorship, industry exposure, and active career support—not as a bonus, but as a baseline. The 1,000+ mentoring sessions logged represent hours of investment in people who might otherwise have concluded that the engineering profession had nothing to offer them.
Nigeria’s challenges in healthcare, infrastructure, power, and manufacturing cannot be solved without engineers who are trained, retained, and respected. Programmes like NIBAAMS are how that retention begins: through deliberate, human-scale investment.
For inquiries or to confirm your attendance, please contact 08035465468 | 09024547621 | 08136007917
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