NDDC Post Graduate Foreign Scholarship Program 2011

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Originally Posted by beethoven

.....And this thread (One of the hottest in recent times) finally fades away......I'm happy for those that were successful at the interview and wish them well. And to the others that were disappointed by NDDC better opportunities await you. Cheers everyone.

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I agree wt u bro, one of d hottest. All d best everyone...

Despite not being successful, being a part of this forum helped me handle the disappointment...May GOD bless all of you...I know 10years from now, this will add to the stories we'll tell younger generations on how we climbed to the pinnacle of success.....None of you will miss your destiny in JESUS Name, AMEN!!!!

Good luck to you all...

Hello House, Can any NDDC scholar please confirm if the tution fee has been paid? thanks

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Originally Posted by king_yomo

Hello House, Can any NDDC scholar please confirm if the tution fee has been paid? thanks

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Not yet mate!

quite nice >(*)

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Originally Posted by Pricelezz

Despite not being successful, being a part of this forum helped me handle the disappointment...May GOD bless all of you...I know 10years from now, this will add to the stories we'll tell younger generations on how we climbed to the pinnacle of success.....None of you will miss your destiny in JESUS Name, AMEN!!!!

Good luck to you all...

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quite nice >(*)

fellow scholars, any news about payment?

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Originally Posted by mekehud

fellow scholars, any news about payment?

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COme, dis one I still dey see questions on payment, does it mean they have not made payments to the school yet? HAba!! Dese guys are wonderfully inconsiderate...
So even If I was successful this year, I wouldn't have gone cos on Oct. 4th I got a call that my admission has been cancelled and they don't defer engineering courses in RGU due to the high demand...Hmmmmm....
I pray that won't be the portion of any Scholar in JESUS Name, AMEN!!
And without payments, no CAS and without CAS, VISA na serious prayer point.....
GOD help you scholars....and for those who have travelled, bless the name of the Lord and indeed study to show your self approved unto GOD who gave you this opportunity and the benefits unto us (men)that we may glorify our FATHER in Heaven. AMEN!!


For your information, PTDF application for 2012/2013 is on...it expires oct 31st....In case you have a change of heart...you can apply for this one now.....At the moment, that is the only Gov't related scholarship that its arrangements are organized though the exams in the past haven't been the best but we belive it can only get beta...

Good luck to you all

No news yet oh!!!! they have been promising end of every week!!!!

The list is on the website now, has anyone been paid yet?

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Originally Posted by destiny22

The list is on the website now, has anyone been paid yet?

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Guys, please don't ignore this info... use 1minute of your time to go through the NDDC Scholarship list on the site, some people (e.g myself) got the scholarship but were not informed or contacted. I just got a call from my friend who saw it and congratulated me although I already deferred my admission. So I believe some people might still be in that same position. However, no time is too late.

Regards.

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Originally Posted by ukstar

Guys, please don't ignore this info... use 1minute of your time to go through the NDDC Scholarship list on the site, some people (e.g myself) got the scholarship but were not informed or contacted. I just got a call from my friend who saw it and congratulated me although I already deferred my admission. So I believe some people might still be in that same position. However, no time is too late.

Regards.

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God is good

Felt goose pimples all over. You are favoured.
To God be the glory.

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Originally Posted by ukstar

Guys, please don't ignore this info... use 1minute of your time to go through the NDDC Scholarship list on the site, some people (e.g myself) got the scholarship but were not informed or contacted. I just got a call from my friend who saw it and congratulated me although I already deferred my admission. So I believe some people might still be in that same position. However, no time is too late.

Regards.

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Felt goose pimples all over. You are favoured.
To God be the glory.

I just know that God works, indeed, God uses the ridiculous to do the miraculous it was the 11th hour miracle. ‎"When the LORD turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream". Glory and honour be to God.

Guys, just keep trying in every opportunities, one day something better will sure work out for you. I know how many times I have applied for overseas scholarship, infact I choose next year as my dateline bu as God would have it, it worked out. God is forever faithful, even in the unfaithfulness situation of men like me.

Guys, I'm told the scholarship result has been cancelled due to series of petitions written by applicants who didn't make the final list, claiming the result released was marred with irregularities and wasn't published earlier, in that so-called successful candidates were secretely contacted via text messages. In the wake of this development, those whose names appeared on the list first published should expect nothing till further notice. However, it is still unclear as to what NDDC's next line of action on this issue is going to be...

Waow!!! This is crazy crazy stuff from NDDC. Look at how they've dashed people's hopes with their insincerity and ojoro. Now the legit guys that clinched this scholarship will be deeply affected by this decision. Well sha, I feel for everyone affected.

It cant be true. So stop peddling rumours. You cant award a scholarship, put the list of awardees online and also give them an award letter; only for you to wake up the following day and say u are cancelling it. That would lead to nddc being sued. What would happen to those who have already obtained their visa and commenced their program???. They cant try it trust me.

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Originally Posted by Pricelezz

COme, dis one I still dey see questions on payment, does it mean they have not made payments to the school yet? HAba!! Dese guys are wonderfully inconsiderate...
So even If I was successful this year, I wouldn't have gone cos on Oct. 4th I got a call that my admission has been cancelled and they don't defer engineering courses in RGU due to the high demand...Hmmmmm....
I pray that won't be the portion of any Scholar in JESUS Name, AMEN!!
And without payments, no CAS and without CAS, VISA na serious prayer point.....
GOD help you scholars....and for those who have travelled, bless the name of the Lord and indeed study to show your self approved unto GOD who gave you this opportunity and the benefits unto us (men)that we may glorify our FATHER in Heaven. AMEN!!


For your information, PTDF application for 2012/2013 is on...it expires oct 31st....In case you have a change of heart...you can apply for this one now.....At the moment, that is the only Gov't related scholarship that its arrangements are organized though the exams in the past haven't been the best but we belive it can only get beta...

Good luck to you all

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pricelezz,pls, contact me at [email protected]. We av sumtin in common

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Originally Posted by meet_tope

It cant be true. So stop peddling rumours. You cant award a scholarship, put the list of awardees online and also give them an award letter; only for you to wake up the following day and say u are cancelling it. That would lead to nddc being sued. What would happen to those who have already obtained their visa and commenced their program. They cant try it trust me.

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Guy I'm not wishing them bad, but I tell you, this is Nigeria where anything goes. Don't you also forget that they withheld the list for over two months after sending text messages which is also illegal, they called people secretly for interviews after 6 weeks of conducting the formal interviews, they conducted interviews spending average of 15mins with the first set of people that went in, then started spending 2mins for people that came in subsequently and list goes on and on. Look, truth being told, the whole thing was marred by irregularities this is not the mean nobody got the scholarship legitimately, but when something is not right, then it is not and there is nothing you can do that will make it right unless the wrong is corrected.

Secondly there nothing legal binding NDDC to the scholars and making it compulsory that they must fulfill their scholarship commitment to the scholars. If anything happens to NDDC today without them paying the scholars then they can as well kiss their scholarships good bye. I just hope they can resolve the issue in such a way that nobody will be hurt in the end. Meanwhile, they can apply for other scholarships. PTDF is still on, others will follow soon.


Wishing all the NDDC scholars the best in their endeavors.

I am an NDDC scholar 2010. And i make bold to tell you; it aint possible to cancel it after awarding the scholarship. It is a contract between 2 parties. people were also aggrieved in 2010 but i dnt know what came off it. Like you rightly said; this is naija but i can also tell you, u cant award a contract to a contractor and later said u cancelled it after commencement of the project except for inefficiency on the part of the contractor or fraudulent docs submitted by the contractor. GBAM,

Guys I have a least of those from Abia state MSc and out of the 15 chosen for MSc 9 were in the first list and the other 6 were conspicuously added to the list. i was even at the interview where a guy told me that the man in charge was is Uncle, at first I thought he was joking and pleaded with him to talk to his uncle on my behalf but i do not think that the guy did anything and now he is already in the UK doing his course. There is a lot of OJORO in the selection process jor, I will make better efforts as this year was my second time so I will try again next year and maybe go and talk to the man my self. Once beaten twice shy they say.

They even told us that there were going to award 200 people and on the list its 189 so where is the remaining 11, am sure the money for those has been pocketed.

go check d list of those shortlisted 4 interview n d list of those awarded d scholarship,if u find any discrepancies,ready 2 cry out

House after all the politics and man-know-man, my name was published in the final list. To God be the glory. Truly I don't have any "Uncle" as people keep saying. I have even forgotten about the whole stuff since my name didn't appear in the first list when I checked the NDDC office. I just visited the website on Monday to see my "Innocent name" boldly written in CAPITAL. Thank you Lord for being true to your word, and for revealing to me in advance that there's still room enough to contain me!

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Originally Posted by frankknight

go check d list of those shortlisted 4 interview n d list of those awarded d scholarship,if u find any discrepancies,ready 2 cry out

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@Omrex just posted something that looks like what you are talking about. Look:

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Originally Posted by omrex

Guys I have a least of those from Abia state MSc and out of the 15 chosen for MSc 9 were in the first list and the other 6 were conspicuously added to the list. i was even at the interview where a guy told me that the man in charge was is Uncle, at first I thought he was joking and pleaded with him to talk to his uncle on my behalf but i do not think that the guy did anything and now he is already in the UK doing his course. There is a lot of OJORO in the selection process jor, I will make better efforts as this year was my second time so I will try again next year and maybe go and talk to the man my self. Once beaten twice shy they say.

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That's according to Omrex.

Nigeria is a disgrace to the world with all these antics. I pray to God that it gets better. Please nobody should come to this forum to celebrate how he/she got this scholarship legitimately because it will annoy a lot of people, me inclusive(i know u have your right to air your opinion, hence my right to my own opinion as well). nobody and i will say it again NOBODY deserves this scholarship as there was no bar/gauge/competence level that was tested at the interviews to determine who merits the scholarship. Its a ploy to show that they are keeping to propaganda and MO, hence they send out their inlaws and friends and girlfriends and boyfriends and so the list goes. The lucky few that God actually ordained to get this scholarship( i wish i was part of them) don't have to come on NHJ and talk about how legit or try to proclaim NDDC praises because it is not because you are better academically than me and the other contenders or prospectively chosen a course of interest to the region but because God Almighty has said this is yours. And the ones that had the opportunity to influence theirs(i also wish i were part of them too) also dont need to come to the forum and give us BS(bull s**t) about how they are legit awardees as i would say keep quiet and utilize your scholarship funds to better yourself and come back to better Nigeria positively.
All in all i am tired of coming on this thread and reading people praising NDDC or the process. Whether you are from the 2009 or 2010 set don't come here to praise NDDC because you are receiving a good life over there in the comfort of your well airconditioned studio to type on NHJ( you are not in our shoes). NDDC is what it is, same goes to so many other Nigeria govt parastatals as well as companies operated in Nigeria and influenced by our way of life(exxonmobil and co)... They are all f***tards. My advise to everybody hustle now and complain later. As much as possible change what you can now and leave the rest for later. My personal moto in life is "If you dont like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." Thats how i approach things, especially those related to Nigeria. We can petition all we like, but i really pity both the ones that God has given the scholarship and those that influenced it, because if the NDDC should forfeit their duties to pay up alot of people are going to be in some really serious problems(that i don't wish for anyone). Conclusively as for me as exxon don show me and my brother tripleC pepper with over two year silent wait after medicals and NDDC nor give me scholarship i don hustle carry small money go US don start my masters for the past two months,as i finish by God's grace with a distinctive GPA i go get better jab than exxon and i definitely wont leave my fate in the hands of all these dubious people. I advise people reading this to ALWAYS HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE WHEN DEALING WITH THINGS IN NIGERIA. THINGS WILL NOT CHANGE NOW BUT I HOPE IT CHANGES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO YOU ALL AND MY UNBORN CHILDREN WILL BENEFIT.

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Originally Posted by random_guy

Nigeria is a disgrace to the world with all these antics. I pray to God that it gets better. Please nobody should come to this forum to celebrate how he/she got this scholarship legitimately because it will annoy a lot of people, me inclusive(i know u have your right to air your opinion, hence my right to my own opinion as well). nobody and i will say it again NOBODY deserves this scholarship as there was no bar/gauge/competence level that was tested at the interviews to determine who merits the scholarship. Its a ploy to show that they are keeping to propaganda and MO, hence they send out their inlaws and friends and girlfriends and boyfriends and so the list goes. The lucky few that God actually ordained to get this scholarship( i wish i was part of them) don't have to come on NHJ and talk about how legit or try to proclaim NDDC praises because it is not because you are better academically than me and the other contenders or prospectively chosen a course of interest to the region but because God Almighty has said this is yours. And the ones that had the opportunity to influence theirs(i also wish i were part of them too) also dont need to come to the forum and give us BS(bull s**t) about how they are legit awardees as i would say keep quiet and utilize your scholarship funds to better yourself and come back to better Nigeria positively.
All in all i am tired of coming on this thread and reading people praising NDDC or the process. Whether you are from the 2009 or 2010 set don't come here to praise NDDC because you are receiving a good life over there in the comfort of your well airconditioned studio to type on NHJ( you are not in our shoes). NDDC is what it is, same goes to so many other Nigeria govt parastatals as well as companies operated in Nigeria and influenced by our way of life(exxonmobil and co)... They are all f***tards. My advise to everybody hustle now and complain later. As much as possible change what you can now and leave the rest for later. My personal moto in life is "If you dont like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." Thats how i approach things, especially those related to Nigeria. We can petition all we like, but i really pity both the ones that God has given the scholarship and those that influenced it, because if the NDDC should forfeit their duties to pay up alot of people are going to be in some really serious problems(that i don't wish for anyone). Conclusively as for me as exxon don show me and my brother tripleC pepper with over two year silent wait after medicals and NDDC nor give me scholarship i don hustle carry small money go US don start my masters for the past two months,as i finish by God's grace with a distinctive GPA i go get better jab than exxon and i definitely wont leave my fate in the hands of all these dubious people. I advise people reading this to ALWAYS HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE WHEN DEALING WITH THINGS IN NIGERIA. THINGS WILL NOT CHANGE NOW BUT I HOPE IT CHANGES AS SOON AS POSSIBLE SO YOU ALL AND MY UNBORN CHILDREN WILL BENEFIT.

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You sounded very bitter at first, I understand because these things happen everywhere and they can be very painful at times. In the end I want to congratulate you, at least you are now in the US doing Masters. The truth is: Masters degree abroad (US, UK, France, Europe, South Africa or even in the Moon) doesn't always guarantee a good job. Experience has shown me this. I have add a lot of friends with First Class degrees in Nigeria + Distinction in Masters abroad who are still roaming the streets. Why? because they think just having additional Certificates will get them jobs automatically. As you are studying, make sure you master and specialize in the industry relevant aspects of your course. Look at the industry where you hope to work, checkout the necessary skills needed get into that industry, tailor your masters degree in that direction (including your final project). These will help you in the end.


Wishing you the best in your endeavors.

Hello mates!
Please I need an advice now as my school has discontinued the course I applied for.
They advised me to go for another related course for January intake, but my fear is whether that will affect my scholarship because NDDC had given me an award letter based on the formal course.

I have started to investigate those awarded the scholarship but were not on the original list of those shortlisted for the interview. Find below, those awarded the scholarship from Abia state who were not on the initial published interview list. Other states will follow in due course.

John C. Igbokwe

ABI

Information Systems

Georgia State University

MSc.

Victor A. O. Ugoma

ABI

Electronics & Telecoms Engineering

McGill University, Canada

MSc.

Uwaezu Victor Enyinnaya

ABI

Electrical Engineering

University of Bradford

MSc.

Alozie Chinedu Izima

ABI

Public Health

University of Edinburgh

MSc.

Uwaezu Kingsley Nkemdi	ABI	Project Management	University of Salford, UK	MSc.
Nkeiruka Nneka Ndubuka	ABI	Safety, Health and Environment	University of Salford, UK	MSc.

Find below, those awarded the scholarship from Akwa-Ibom state who were not on the initial published interview list. Other states will follow in due course.

Edidiong Parchi Umoh

AKW

Construction Project Management

Robert Gordon University

MSc.

Uko Jonah Bassey

AKW

Subsea Engineering

Strathclyde University, UK

MSc.

Mmasifon Okon Ikono

AKW

Electrical Engineering

Tu le Technische Universiteit eindhoven, University of Technoloty, UK

MSc.

Okon Udo Frank

AKW

Environment and Development

University of Reading

MSc.

Find below, those awarded the scholarship from Bayelsa state who were not on the initial published interview list. Other states will follow in due course.

Godwin-Egein Ereworio Monday Ilegimokuma	BAY	Information Technology	Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Paul Eni Sokari	BAY	Environmental Management	Coventry University, UK

Dickson Akpolagha	BAY	Petroleum Geochemistry	NewCastle University	MSc.
Oti Oyintombra	BAY	Petroleum Geoscience	Royal Holloway University of London	MSc.
Ariwaro Anita Deniel	BAY	Business Information Technology	Southampton Solent University	MSc.
Ayabowei Karibie	BAY	Chemical Process Engineering	University College London	MSc.
Alabaraba Emmanuel. A	BAY	Energy System Engineering	University of Glamorgan	MSc.

Ebikiri N. Aboro

BAY

Computer Information Science/ Software Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

MSc.

NDDC's website layout has been changed. Any significance ?

Local scholarship nko- any news?

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Originally Posted by bryandavid

Find below, those awarded the scholarship from Bayelsa state who were not on the initial published interview list. Other states will follow in due course.

Godwin-Egein Ereworio Monday Ilegimokuma	BAY	Information Technology	Belarussian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
Paul Eni Sokari	BAY	Environmental Management	Coventry University, UK

Dickson Akpolagha	BAY	Petroleum Geochemistry	NewCastle University	MSc.
Oti Oyintombra	BAY	Petroleum Geoscience	Royal Holloway University of London	MSc.
Ariwaro Anita Deniel	BAY	Business Information Technology	Southampton Solent University	MSc.
Ayabowei Karibie	BAY	Chemical Process Engineering	University College London	MSc.
Alabaraba Emmanuel. A	BAY	Energy System Engineering	University of Glamorgan	MSc.

Ebikiri N. Aboro

BAY

Computer Information Science/ Software Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

MSc.

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Bryandavid nice work! I hope the guys whose names appear on these lists visit this page soon. They should really be ashamed of themselves, denying the legit guys their right by coming in through the back-door.

No more news?

I have attended the NDDC scholarship interview twice, last year and this year and i met a guy that said the coordinator was his uncle( the short fat mat) and as I pleaded with the guy to talk to the man on my behalf for this years scholarship, he claimed that he had done that buy at the end of the day my name did not appear but the guys name did.
The guy said his LGA was and oil producing one so they would have a high quota and it happened as he said and every name from that LGA appeared. I will try again next year and see if i can get hold of the coordinator and i pray God will help me.

Heard in NTA network news yesterday(Friday,02/12) that the new MD of NDDC has approved the payment of the scholarship fund by next week. Can the NDDC scholars in the house confirm this or send a mail to their schools to confirm receive of payment.

You may wish to check this out-
We will start paying contractors soon -New NDDC MD

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Originally Posted by uefosa

You may wish to check this out-
We will start paying contractors soon -New NDDC MD

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What a good news!