210 Graduates Bag NDDC Foreign Scholarships

No fewer than 210 graduates of Niger Delta origin last Friday received scholarships under the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Post-Graduate Foreign Scholarship Programme.
NDDC’s Acting Managing Director, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, handed the award letters to successful candidates, according to a statement issued in Port Harcourt by the commission’s Director of Cooperate Affairs, Mr Charles Odili.
Brambaifa told the beneficiaries during a pre-departure and orientation briefing to utilise the opportunity given to them to better their lives and those of their family members.
Represented NDDC Director for Education, Health and Social Services, by Mr Gochua Okejoto, Brambaifa said NDDC had made huge investments to deepen knowledge and skills among the youth.
“The beneficiaries are the new generation of well-trained professionals who will help take the Niger Delta to the next level.
“This group are the future; people whose professional competences and exposure will fill the gaps in the oil and gas industry.
“They will also fill gaps in infrastructure development, information technology, agriculture and aquaculture, thus sustaining livelihoods that are important to creating wealth and abolishing poverty,” he said.
Brambaifa said the commission had improved living standard of the people by making them become more creative, effective and proactive for the region’s economic growth.
The NDDC, he said, began the scheme in 2010 with the objectives to bridge gap in the management cadre of the oil and gas sector and address dearth of capacity among the youth.