No fewer than 10,000 indigent students from its host communities have so far benefited from the scholarship scheme of Nigeria Petroleum Development Company Limited (NPDC) .
Mr Dahiru Abubakar, Manager, Community Relations Department,who disclosed this known during the conduct of the year 2019/2020 scholarship examination organised by NPDC in Warri, Delta,said about 379 students were invited for the examination from all NPDC host communities.
He added that the scholarship examination was being conducted simultaneously in three centres at Warri, Delta State, Egbema in Imo State and Port Harcourt, River State.
“We are here to basically conduct NPDC yearly scholarship examination. This exercise is for year 2019/2020 and the process is going on smoothly.
“Basically, this is a tertiary scholarship exams, what we do is to send invitation to our host communities asking them to nominate four candidates to compete for one slot per community.
“The Warri venue has about 179 candidates, while Egbema and Port harcourt centres have 100 candidates each.
“In total, we have 379 candidates sitting for the exam out of which about 160 successful candidates would be awarded the scholarships.
“The NPDC Scholarship programme started in the year 2000, and since then about 10,000 students have enjoyed and still enjoying the programme,” he said.
According to him, the effort is part of NPDC corporate social responsibilities to its host communities aimed at promoting human capital development.
Abubakar further stated that to ensure transparency in the process, NPDC engaged the management of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE) as consultant to conduct the examination.
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