Nigeria Universities Updates

Concerned with the educational development of students, the National Committee for the United World Colleges (UWC) has awarded scholarships to over 10 students to study overseas. The award was held at Ikoyi, Lagos.

The course, International Baccalaureate (IB), will run for two years. The students are to undergo studies in different countries, including Wales, India, China and Costa Rica, among others.

Certificates were presented to students who scaled the preliminary levels.

The Chairman of the UWC Nigerian National Committee, Mr Hakeem Bello-Osagie, urged the students to be good ambassadors of the country during their studies.

“Represent and show the country in good light wherever you are,”. he advised.

He assured the students that the study would change their lives positively.

“I assured you that the course is going to be life- changing and will keep you for the rest of your life. I look forward to maintaining a life-long relationship with you,”he added.

One of the recipients, Chizitera Njoku, expressed gratitude to the organisation for the opportunity offered her to study abroad.

“I feel very great and excited and I am very happy and grateful to God and I thank the organisers for offering me this opportunity,” she said.

Another student, Chinwude Nwana, promised to be of good character and replicate the good things of the country in her country of study.

One of the parents, Mr Isiaka Sanni, whose two children benefited from the award, said he was grateful to the Almighty for the opportunity.

“It is an opportunity to put them on the global scene. What that means is that students will meet with more than 200 children from all over the world. It is not all about education but it is all about exposing the children to global scenario. They should represent Nigeria fantastically,” he urged.

Prof Isabella Okagbue, a member of the committee, said the world colleges were established to foster international peace and understanding by bringing young people from different parts of the world together. She urged the students to be good ambassadors in their various countries of studies and prayed for their success.

She said the committee was working towards raising sufficient funds to enable it send more people on scholarship

Some of the recipients of the award are Kasore Aleshiloye, Ekperigin Ejirohene, Oluwarontimi Omontaon, Awoyinka Ore, Mubarak Sanni and others.

Dr Ann Abiola Ogbenna, thanked the members of the committee for a job well done. She urged the students to dream high and remain focused.

“Dream plus action makes the impossible possible,” she said.

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TWOWS Postgraduate Training Fellowship for Women Scientists

Organisation: Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS)

The Third World Organization for Women in Science (TWOWS) is an international autonomous organization based in Trieste, Italy.

TWOWS is accepting applications for its postgraduate fellowship programme. The TWOWS fellowship supports female students from Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs) who wish to pursue postgraduate training leading to a PhD at centres of excellence in developing countries.

The fellowship supports research projects in the natural sciences. The minimum qualification of applicants is an MSc degree (or equivalent) or an outstanding BSc honours degree in a field of the natural sciences.
Both sandwich and full-time fellowships are available.

Deadline to apply is 31 July 2010.

Please click below for more information on the application procedure, eligibility criteria and to download the application form.

Click Here to Apply

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The Scholarship Program
Water and Soil Solution in its social responsibilties is offering scolarship program for the indigent Nigerian students by assisting Nigerian undergraduates and students in higher institution obtain grants from its mother company based in Switzerland
The Scholarship program is divided into two categories which are:

Category A
Open to students in Universities, Polytechnics and colleges of Education in Nigeria with a minimmum requirement of 2 distinctions and 4 credits obtained at not more than 1 sitting for WAEC/GCE/NECO examinations
Category B

Open only to Sophomore(200-level students) of universities only, with a cummulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of not less than 3.00 with additional Qualification of 2 distinctions and 4 credits obtained at not more than one sitting for WAEC/GCE/NECO Examination.
Nature of The Scholarship

Water and Soil Solution will only give grants of between 50, 000 – 70, 000 (naira) to students after verification of students results and oral interview of the selected students to confirm students worthiness of the scholarship. The scholarship grant will be given to students throughout their degree program provided the CGPA is not below 3.00. Students can check national dailies for further enquiries of the scholarship programs.
Students are advised that multiple entries will lead to automatic disqualification of the Scholarship program and as such, one application suffice for the program. Students with forged Certificates or results need not apply as comprehensive verification of results will be carried out.
This Scholarship program is only open ti Nigerians in every Tertiary Institutions; Private, State, and Federal Institutions.

Note: Foreign students are not to apply.
Please click on the button below to fill the application form for the Scholarship programs.

To Apply Click: http://waterandsoilsolution.com/registration.htm

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Addax Petroleum Development (Nig) Limited invites qualified candidates for its 2009/2010 National Tertiary Institutions Scholarship Awards Scheme in Nigeria.

GENERAL ELIGIBILITY

All Candidates must:

i) be a Nigerian
ii) be a registered, full time 100 level undergraduate in any Nigerian Tertiary Institution
iii) have 5 ‘0′ level credit passes in one sitting including English Language and Mathematics.

NOTE:
Any candidate currently a beneficiary of a scholarship of any kind is not eligible to apply
Dependants of employees of Addax Petroleum are not eligible to apply.
METHOD OF APPLICATION

To qualify for consideration, applicants MUST submit an application with ALL the following information.
A. Surname
B. Other Names
C. Sex
D. Functional Email address and phone number
And attach scanned copies of the original:
i. Admission letter into institution with information on course of study, year of entry and duration.
ii. SSCE/GCE O’level certificate
iii. Evidence of state of origin/local government
iv. School ID card or National ID or Driver’s license or international passport.

APTITUDE TEST
An aptitude test for all applicants will be conducted at the following centres on a later date that shall be communicated to successful applicants through their email addresses.
Applicants should therefore indicate their preferred centre for the test on their applications:

1. ABUJA 2. CALABAR 3. LAGOS 4. PORT HARCOURT 5. OWERRI

SUBMISSION
All applications should be submitted with scanned copies of credentials through the following email addresses not later than Friday, May 28, 2010

Applications from North East geographical zone -
Email address: CRL1@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from North West geographical zone -
Email address: CRL2@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from North Central geographical zone -
Email address: CRL3@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South West geographical zone -
Email address: CRL4@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South East geographical zone -
Email address: CRL5@addaxpetroleum.com

Applications from South South geographical zone -
Email address: CRL6@addaxpetroleum.com

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Africa Education Support (Afresup) is an African Educational Organization set up to support African Students in Secondary

Schools and Tertiary Institutions within and across Africa. We have come to see that the major problem facing the African Student is the inability to

pay for their education due to high poverty level in the Continent.

Considering this, the Afresup was set up to grant support in the form of Scholarships to African Students studying within and across Africa. Our funds

are generated by soliciting grants from African Nations and Nationals, Corporate Organizations, UNESCO, etc.

The Afresup holds two level of Scholarships every year. The Tertiary Scholarship and the Secondary Scholarship. The tertiary level is

targeted towards Africans who are bona fide students of known Tertiary Institutions within and across Africa, while the Secondary Scholarship is for

students in the Secondary Schools within and across Africa.

The Afresup Scholarship does not run through the year. Applications becomes open at a given date and closes at a given date. You can

always check on our website to know if application is open. The 2010 editions starts on 28/3/2010 and closes on 30/5/2010

All Scholarship contracts last for a session. However, beneficiaries of Scholarships can reapply for subsequent editions.

The Afresup does not conduct examinations to determine who merits a Scholarship. This is because we believe that everybody does not

have the same intelligence level yet everyone deserves education.

Our mode of determining who wins a Scholarship is base solely on random selection. This way Students with high intelligence level and vise-versa will have a chance to go to School on Scholarship.

Selections are in two stages. An initial random selection will be conducted after which all winners will pass through another stage of random selection that will determine the Final winners.

All Afresup Scholarship are paid in cash to beneficiaries.

We wish All African Students good luck as they take hold of this opportunity.

For support, please mail us at info@afresup.com

Apply here: http://afresup.com/Instruction.htm

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Chevron Nigeria Limited, in collaboration with its Joint Venture partner, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is offering a number of University Scholarship Awards to suitably qualified Nigerian students.

Applications are invited from full-time SECOND YEAR (200 LEVEL) degree students of the underlisted courses, in Nigeria Universities.

1. Accountancy
2. Agricultural Engineering/Agricultural Science
3. Architecture
4. Business Administration/Economics
5. Chemical Engineering
6. Civil Engineering
7. Computer Science
8. Electrical/Electronic Engineering
9. Environmental Studies/Surveying
10. Geology/Geophysics
11. Law
12. Mass Communication/Journalism
13. Mechanical/Metallurgical & Materials Engineering
14. Human Medicine/Dentistry/Pharmacy
15. Petroleum Engineering

Deadline
Closing date for receipt of application is January 31 2010
Short-listed candidates will be required to present originals of the following documents for screening ahead of the qualifying test:

• WAEC result or its equivalent
• Evidence of admission into a Nigerian University
• Evidence of current year of study
• JAMB registration number/UME scores
• University matriculation number
• 2 current [passport photographs
• Details of educational History – schools attended with dates and certificates obtained
• State of origin obtained from the appropriate Local Government Area and duly signed by the Chairman or Secretary
• Valid University ID card
Names of shortlisted candidates for the qualifying test will be published in National dailies on or before July 2010
Management
Chevron Nigeria Limited, 2 Chevron Drive, Lekki Pennisula P.M.B 12825, Lagos

Our Service
If you want us to send the Application form to you and the instruction for filling it, send recharge card ZAIN #100 to 07066999466 or 08027571733. Also include in the text your email and chevron scholarship i.e send “callayus@yahoo.com, chevron scholarship” to 07066999466 or 08027571733.

As soon as we confirm we will forward the document to you. Just fill it and send it to the right address.

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