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AMIR Fund Launches New Website and Strengthens Its Programme Team
The new site brings together all initiatives, impact figures and news, as the Fund adds dedicated programme management and impact tracking.
AMIR Fund Opens Applications for New Medical Scholarship Program for Future Doctors
The Fund's first national scholarship covers full tuition at eleven government universities and renews each year to graduation.
AMIR Fund Celebrates Academic Excellence at Second Annual Prize Giving Day in Abeokuta
The second edition recognised the top student in every subject, the highest JAMB score and the overall best students in SS1 and SS2.
AMIR Fund and Dawah Front Equip 50 More People to Earn a Living in Abeokuta
The 2026 exercise received 73 applications and approved 50 people for business equipment and stock, with 93% of funds spent directly on items.
AMIR Fund Founders Commit at Least 2.5% of Their Annual Income to Those in Need
The founders' personal giving standard funds the AMIR Fund's education and social intervention work. They are inviting others to join.
AMIR Fund Expands Support for Molecular Biology Research at Obafemi Awolowo University
Beyond research awards, the Fund now pays for the equipment, consumables and people behind the laboratory's molecular biology work.
AMIR Fund Celebrates Academic Excellence in Abeokuta, Restores Student Recognition
The Fund signed MoUs with both schools and honoured outstanding students and a dedicated teacher at the first Prize Giving Day in years.
AMIR Fund Supports OAU Laboratory with Endowment to Power Biomedical Research
The Fund signed an MoU with OAU to support biomedical research in the Department of Microbiology and an annual postgraduate research award.
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Earlier news
AMIR Fund announces first recipients of the Professor Adebayo Shittu Research Award
Two MSc students and a postdoctoral fellow in OAU's Department of Microbiology received the inaugural award for research in infectious diseases and oncology. It is the first home-grown private initiative dedicated to the department's graduate students.
Dawah Front and AMIR Foundation empower 52 beneficiaries in Ogun State
Students, entrepreneurs and people living with disabilities, selected from 85 applicants, received sewing machines, grinding machines, freezers, generators and industrial equipment in Abeokuta.