NDDC Shortlists 1,050 For Foreign Postgraduate Scholarship Tests

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has commenced oral interviews for over 1,050 candidates for its foreign postgraduate scholarship programme.
The interviews, which is spread over 11 days, are for candidates that were successful in the computer-based test written by 5,000 applicants earlier in the month.
The NDDC Managing Director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who was at the venue of the interview with the Executive Director Finance and Administration, Alabo Boma Iyaye, the Executive Director Projects, Sir Victor Antai, and the Executive Director Corporate Services, Hon. Ifedayo Abegunde, said that the guiding principle for the interview was equity, fairness and transparency.
He said, “Everything is going to be done based on merit and that is what we want and the reason why we came to monitor the process is to show our support to what is going on and let people know that we did not set up a process without coming to check what was happening. We believe that the best will be selected amongst the successful candidates.
“We are sending the scholars out to represent our country. They are going to be our worthy ambassadors. The interview panel was randomly selected to ensure fairness because the 200 scholars to be selected will be our ambassadors.”
The Managing Director explained that funding had been a challenge. “We increased the allowance for the studies from thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000.00) to forty Thousand Dollars, ($40,000.00) and this affected our finances, making it necessary to create a balance.