PTDF increases number of university in scholarship scheme to 40
Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has increased the number of participating universities in its Local Scholarship Scheme (LSS) from 23 universities to all the 40 federal universities in Nigeria.
This was revealed when the Manager, Education and Training of PTDF, Mrs. Rabi’ah Waziri-Adamu spoke to journalists at the commencement of the selection interview for the LSS postgraduate programme across the six geo-political zones.
According to her the idea to increase said the initiative to expand the the number of universities was to acomodate more people. scheme was deliberate.
Waziri Adamu said, “This year, unlike previous years when we had just 23 universities participating in the programme, we have all the 40 federal universities and we are picking 370 MSc candidates from across the nation. That is 10 from each state including the Federal Capital Territory; and we are also picking five PhD students from each of the states of the federation, including the FCT.”
She said that, for the undergraduate aspect of the local scholarship, 10 persons will be selected from each state but they will only attend federal universities.
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