The NDDC Finally Pays The Tuition Fees Of Students On Its Scholarship Scheme
The Niger Delta Development
Commission, NDDC, has just confirmed the payment of $5,901,000 to 197 students who
are on its scholarship scheme.
During the investigative
hearing which was done by the House of Representatives on the allegations of
financial recklessness in the NDDC some students of the sent abroad by the
commission to study had come out in their numbers to complain that they have
been abandoned by the commission as they had failed to fulfil its promise of
paying their tuition fees as well as the allowance they were promised.
These students had staged a
protest that got to the attention of the President of the Federation who had
ordered for the immediate payment of the students fees.
However, respite has come
the way of the students as the tuition fees of some of the students have now been
paid and others still being processed.
The Director of Corporate
Affairs, NDDC, Charles Odili while in an interview with Vanguard, said that the
sum of $5.901 M has been paid to 197 scholarship students.
He said that among these
197 students 12 were Ph.D. students from 2016 and 13 were Ph.D. students from
2019 which now totals 43 who got $30,000 each which amounts to $1,290,000.
He mentioned that 154 MSC
students of 2019 were also paid $30,000 each, which amounts to $4,420,000, bringing
the total amount paid to $5,910,000.
He gave the details of the
remaining 94 beneficiaries of 2018 who are still awaiting their payments as 40
PHD and 54 MSC.
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