Tag: Scholarship
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556 outstanding LASU students get scholarship
The management of Lagos State University has awarded scholarship of 50 per cent refund of school fees in the academic session to 556 outstanding undergraduate students of the institution. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that this is in line with a promise made by Prof. ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, when she assumed duty on Sept. 20,…
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Ex-President Jonathan seeks scholarship for disadvantaged African youths
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has called for scholarships for talented African youths who are disadvantaged by low incomes. Jonathan made the call in his remarks during the 11th graduation ceremony of the Cavendish University Uganda (CUU), Kampala.
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4 LAUTECH graduates get PhD scholarship in U.S [See names]
Four Chemical Engineering graduates of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, have been awarded fully funded scholarship at the Louisiana State University(LSU), Los Angeles, U.S. Mr Olalekan Fadeyi, the Principal Assistant Registrar, Public and Alumni Relations Unit of the University made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Ogbomoso, Oyo State.
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11-yr-old Kano girl food hawker, maths genius bags World Bank scholarship
11- year-old girl, genius who solves maths questions without the aid of a calculator or known formulae has bagged a World Bank scholarship. She narrated how she dropped out of school at Primary 4 due to bullying. The Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), a World Bank-supported project, has offered a scholarship to…
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YouTube offers scholarship to black artistes
YouTube Music says it is offering scholarship to scores of black artistes to help them commercialise their work. Alex Okosi, YouTube’s Managing Director for Emerging Markets, said in a statement that it would open grant applications for the #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund Class of 2022 from June 21, 2021. Okosi said that the six-month scholarship term…
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DISTINCTION: 17-year-old Nigerian, Victory Yinka-Banjo gets 19 scholarship offers from US, Canada
A 17-year-old Nigerian, who scored straight As in WASSCE, has received 19 full-ride scholarship offers from universities across the United States and Canada. Victory Yinka-Banjo, who is a secondary school graduate, was offered more than $5 million dollars’ worth of scholarship money for an undergraduate program of study, according to admission documents and estimates of…
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Sanwo-Olu awards scholarship to children of slain policemen
Police officers lynched in the wake of the violence instigated by the nationwide youth demonstration against police brutality will not die in vain, Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has pledged. The state government, yesterday, directed Lagos State Scholarship Board to award scholarships to the children of the slain officers up to the university level.…
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Scholarship board rejects 63 law students application
Kaduna State Scholarship and Loans Board, says it has offered N18.5 million scholarship to 27 law students from the state out of the 90 candidates that applied. A statement issued by the Executive Secretary of the board, Malam Hassan Rilwan on Tuesday in Kaduna, said the remaining 63 students failed to meet the criteria for…
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Buhari wades in, orders payment of NDDC scholarship students
President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the payment of fees and stipends of stranded scholarship students of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) studying abroad. A statement signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, said Buhari conveyed the directive to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, following the protest of the…
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COVID-19, NASS responsible for delay in scholarship payments – NDDC
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has attributed the delay in meeting its obligations to the beneficiaries of its 2019 postgraduate foreign scholarship programme to the lockdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inquest by the National Assembly. The NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili in a statement in Port Harcourt said the commission…