The MTN Nigeria Foundation has given scholarships and more to 380 Nigerian students, including the visually impaired, from various tertiary institutions in the country. The Foundation, as part of its 2024 Scholarship Awards, will also provide mentorship, networking opportunities and coding and digital skills to the student beneficiaries. The...
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BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Senator representing Sokoto East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Lamido has granted scholarship to 100 students from the state to study for their Post and undergraduate programmes in India. The first batch of the scholarship beneficiaries include 42 male students who are expected to leave...
The Deputy President of the Senate, Barau Jibrin has offered overseas scholarship to 70 indigent students in Kano State. The students comprising 65 males and five females would pursue postgraduate programmes in Artificial Intelligence; Forensic, Robotics Sciences and Cyber Security in the United States, Europe, Canada and India. Barau...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – In line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda and Governor Babagana Zulum’s passion to improve access to quality Education, Rt. Hon. Engr. Satomi Ahmed, Member representing Jere Federal Constituency of Borno State, has disbursed N20 million grants to 1000 students who are...
The National Women Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Dr. Mary Alile, has announced a scholarship initiative to empower 100 girls from each of the 36 states of Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with opportunities in IT, Project Management, Data Analytics, and other fields. A statement...
Wife of Anambra Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has offered scholarship from primary school to Master degree level to Chukwuemeka Nwuzor, an eight-year-old Mathematics genius. Soludo made the announcement when she met with Chukwuemeka and his family at the Governor’s lodge in Awka on Wednesday. The News...
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has presented post-graduate foreign scholarship letters to 200 scholars from the Niger Delta region. The Chairman of the NDDC Governing Board, Mr Chiedu Ebie, handed over the letters to the beneficiaries during a pre-departure ceremony in Port Harcourt on Saturday. Ebie, in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum has approved N4.8 billion foreign and local scholarships for 524 Brono indigenes to study postgraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The governor flagged off the scholarship scheme on Friday at the multi-purpose hall of the Government...
The German Ambassador to Nigeria, Mrs Annett Gunther, has said there are no less than four thousand Nigerians schooling and working in Germany. Gunther made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. According to her, the German Academic Exchange...
Rep. Abdulmalik Zubairu (APC-Zamfara) has distributed N 10.94 million as scholarship grants to 297 undergraduates, NCE and Polytechnic students from his constituency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Zubairu represents Bungudu and Maru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. Speaking at the cash disbursement exercise...
Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah on Wednesday offered scholarship up to university level to 11-year old domestic worker, Happiness Nwafor, who was allegedly abused and brutalised by her employer. The governor also ordered the rehabilitation of the victim. The State Commissioner for Children, Gender and Social Development, Mrs...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has approved N1.3 billion scholarship for 997 nursing and midwifery students who are indigenes of the state. The scholarship programme received about 1,080 nominations, 40 from each of the 27 local government areas of the state. However, after...
Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, has approved N280.3 million for the payment of scholarships to 13,946 indigent students at all levels of education in the FCT. Dr Danlami Hayyo, Mandate Secretary, Education Secretariat, FCT Administration disclosed this on Thursday in Gwagwalada, during the...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) of the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto on Wednesday gave scholarship to 14 indigent students. Giving insights into the scholarship, the ASUU Chairman of UDUS chapter, Prof Nuradeen Almustapha, said 2 of the 14 will get the...
The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has awarded scholarship to 34 high flying students of the institution in its maiden “Vice Chancellor Scholarship Award Scheme”. The Vice Chancellor of UNICAL, Prof. Florence Obi, disclosed this while presenting the awards to deserving students at the university’s Senate Chamber on Saturday....
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, through her initiative, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan Foundation (NAUF) has launched scholarship programme, to mitigate the suffering faced by indigent students in Kogi Central. This was contained in a statement personally signed by the lawmaker on Monday. The ₦24 million Educational Intervention Fund,...
By HARUNA AHMED, Katsina – Katsina State Governor, Dikko Radda has approved the release of N38.5 million scholarship for 77 students from the state studying at the Nigerian Law School. The spokesperson of the State Scholarship Board, Mr Salisu Lawal-Kerau, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Katsina....
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu has granted scholarship to the children of a staunch loyalist of his, Prince Offiong Effiwatt, who died on December 25, 2023. The Governor announced the scholarship award during a surprise condolence visit to the family home of...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has awarded scholarships to twelve Nigerian lecturers from public tertiary institutions to undertake doctoral, PhD, studies on science-related disciplines in France, under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff Intervention, TSAS, programme. Speaking at a pre-departure...