The institution will offer graduate programmes in policy, research, governance, leadership and management.
Arrangements are understood to be in place for Home Secretary James Cleverly to fly out to Rwanda to ratify a new treaty.
“Any African can get on a plane to Rwanda whenever they wish and they will not pay a thing to enter our country,” said Mr Kagame.
Mr Kagame, who became president in 2000, can continue in office for another decade.
Some 23 million Nigerian children have received the seasonal malaria chemoprevention to reduce severe malaria.
