Tag: Scholarship
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AMAC Chairman gives N21m scholarship to students
Mr Abdullahi Candido, the Chairman, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), on Wednesday, gave scholarship worth N21.3 million to 806 students in the council area. While giving the scholarship to each of the beneficiaries at the council secretariat, the chairman said it was for the 2019 scholarship award for tertiary institution students, both indigenes and non-indigenes…
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Wema Bank Supports Education for Children through Scholarship Awards
Wema Bank Plc – the inventor of Nigeria’s first fully digital bank, ALAT – has rewarded 20 of its Royal Kiddies Account holders as the financial institution announced winners of the Wema Education Awards for 2019. Given the earlier announcement to provide education support for its customers, a total of 20 winners emerged with six…
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30 Nigerian students get full U.S. govt scholarship
U.S. government had given university scholarship to 30 outstanding Nigerian students to enable them to study in the U.S and other countries. The scholarship is in furtherance of the Education U.S.A Opportunity Funds programme. Ms Malia Heroux, the Deputy Cultural Affairs Officer, U.S. Embassy in Abuja made this known on Friday during the pre-departure orientation…
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92 persons benefit from NITDA’s postgraduate scholarship awards
No fewer than 92 persons have benefited from the 2017/2018 Postgraduate Scholarship programme of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA). The Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations Unit of the agency, Mrs Hadiza Umar said this in a statement on Monday in Abuja. According to Umar, the scholarship programme is part of President Muhammadu…
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Amnesty scholarship scheme intact – Amnesty Office
Prof. Charles Dokubo, Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, has called for tolerance, patience and understanding from delegates on the payment of their allowances and scholarships, while also stressing the amnesty scholarship scheme remains in place. Dokubo made the call on delegates of the Programme within and outside the country in a statement signed by the Chief…
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Dangote Cement gives multi-million naira Scholarship to 115 in host communities
In a major boost to its Corporate Social Responsibility profile, Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese Plant has announced a multi-million Naira educational scholarship award for 115 students from its 15 host communities for the 2017/2018 academic session. The Company said the scholarship has become an annual event meant to contribute to the educational development of the…
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APC chieftain, Efe Daku blasts Okowa for suspending scholarship scheme in Delta
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Delta State, Efe Daku has lambasted Governor Ifeanyi Okowa for suspending the state’s scholarship scheme. Recall that TheNewsGuru.com had earlier reported the announcement of the indefinite suspension of its First Class Graduate Scholarship Scheme by the State Scholarship Board because of what it described as ‘the…
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200 girls to study medicine abroad under Sokoto govt. sponsorship
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State, says his administration has concluded plans to send 200 students to India and other countries to study medicine. Gov. Tambuwal made the disclosure in Sokoto on Monday night at a media parley to commemorate the 2017 Democracy Day. The governor said majority of those to be sponsored would be…
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Recession: FG to scrap sponsorship of foreign scholarships
…Says policy will be restricted to indigenous universities The Federal Government on Wednesday said it will revisit its scholarship programmes which overtly favour foreign universities at the expense of the indigenous ones. This was revealed in Abuja by the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Dr Bello Gusau. Gusau while speaking with…