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The minister was represented by Mr Sonny Echono, Everlasting Secretary of the ministry.
He mentioned that majority of the award holders had returned residence to make vital contributions to the event of Nigeria, largely within the tertiary establishments.
He mentioned that the concept behind the scholarship was to make students purchase the requisite data and expertise, and return to their residence to make significant affect of their varied fields of research.
“Training is important to the achievement of the current administration’s transformation agenda, which is predicted to speed up financial development, engender social change, create a secure polity and enhance on the standard of lifetime of the Nigerians.
“This could solely come to fruition by means of human capital growth.
“Consequently, the schooling sector has been saddled with the accountability of propelling our nation to the realisation of her growth targets in order to change into one of many prime economies of the world and enhance entry to tertiary schooling.
“I’ve little question that every one candidates on this nomination interview have completed analysis on Commonwealth Scholarship Fee (CSC), its mission, imaginative and prescient and pointers amongst others,’’ Adamu mentioned.
The minister famous that purposes had been restricted to PhD candidates, based mostly on directions from the CSC.
He added that purposes can be graded based mostly on tutorial advantage, high quality of analysis proposal and growth affect on completion of the research as PhD candidates.
Talking, Hajiya Ndajiwo Asta, Director, Federal Scholarship Board mentioned that the emergence of the challenges attributable to COVID-19 pandemic, candidates for 2020 have been suggested to defer their scholarship to 2021.
Asta defined that final 12 months, there have been 336 gives made to the 54 commonwealth nations with a median of six candidate per nation.
She additionally mentioned that four,424 candidates utilized by means of the Digital Utility System (EAS), including that Nigeria acquired 24 awards, as a consequence of prime quality of candidates offered.
“The awards are very restricted in quantity in contrast with the big variety of purposes acquired every year.
“This 12 months, roughly 350 candidates utilized by means of the EAS.
“The worth of the award per awardee relies on area of specialisation and it’s adjudged to be adequate, with provision to spouses if indicated, thus makes the award scheme essentially the most aggressive and prestigious on this planet,’’ she mentioned.
