Dr Bello Gusau, Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, on Wednesday in Abuja said granting scholarships to students to study overseas may​​ no longer continue.

”​The present scholarship arrangement, which is disproportionately focused on the Overseas Scholarship Scheme, is no longer sustainable and therefore needs to be reversed​”, Gusau said at an interactive session with​ Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities in Nigeria.

A statement by Mr Kalu Otisi, PTDF Head, Press and External Relations Unit, quoted Gusau as saying that there would be a new strategic agenda that would govern the training and capacity building programmes of the Fund.

“At the centre of the agenda is the domestication of all PTDF training and capacity building programmes, with the implication that Nigerian universities will now play a greater role in the process as partners and major stakeholders.

“The bulk of the scholarship for both the Masters and PhD’s to be offered going forward, would be for training in Nigerian universities.

“We are also open to collaboration, especially through the split-site Ph.D programme,’’ he said.

Gusau said the meeting with the Vice-Chancellors was to agree on relevant terms as well as gather sufficient information that will assist the Fund in the planning and implementation process.

Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, lauded the initiative, saying it tallied with the vision to collectively reform Postgraduate training in Nigeria.

Abubakar described PTDF as the single most important intervention agency outside the education family intervening to build capacity in select areas in the country.

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Lalasticlala Mynd44 seun Dominique

But First class trips to foreign Countries by corrupt politicians aren't cancelled abi?

Nigeria wake up.

Just leave BEA alone

There should be an appraisal of the PTDF program.

I hope their children would have to enroll in jamb to attend Nigeria universities too.

Everything is just changing,but this wasn't the change we expected

Also stop foreign Medical trips

Buy naija

how will any government scrap the education of its citizens. is it nigeria here that we will train scientists, astronauts and engineers?

they can talk eh!!its a big LIE!!the overseas schorlaship scheme is quite Sustainable....i de my house,mk dem come beat me.

They should also scrap medical tourism for anybody involved in active politics or any body holding political position and they should also scrap schooling abroad for their kids. E go better make we all die here, useless govt

.

To Hell With This Current Government, Today Is My Birthday Abeg Make Una Show Me Love.

Scraping Its Not Acceptable. Citizens Must Benefit From It Goverment Through Interventions.

hazan041:
Just leave BEA alone

I quite agree with you. Running cost of BEA scholarships is way lesser compared to the likes of PTDF.

our government
.. dey cant fund scholarship to get the citizens more educated, but can fund their pockets to take their own abroad for education and medical check up.. oh gawd i need to be a politician

in these 9ja if you nor dey for the top or the ruling class ehn my broda you are casted......
noting for the masses......always suffering but still bearing the brunt of evrything.....i tire

Another government will bring it up again.

Effing politicians! They don't want anything that benefits the common people. The masses always bears the brunt for their excesses and incompetence.

So qualified Nigerians would be deprived of First Class learning environment because of these thieves.

Lol

Abooooooooki no like school b4 na, so not surprised.

E don be for this country already with this useless government.

the scales are begining to fall from their eyes, these people will go to school abroad only to come back home and be looking for >500k government/ oil company jobs in office with AC upandan.

is there any difference between them and the guys that finished from naija univesirties? based on this kind of mindset. NO!

God punish every Govt executive or appointee behind this 'initiative'

BiggyBamBam:
So qualified Nigerians would be deprived of First Class learning environment because of these thieves.

How many qualified Nigerians are benefiting from it in the first instance?

Why??

Does it really make any difference. Before sef the scholarship slot is usually shared for their friends and cronies. Some of these men in their time benefitted from interventions like this but in our own time, its not sustainable. Its ok. God dey

Total bollocks,

But una fit pay millions of naira to senators that do absolutely nothing.

Even having newspaper allowances , wardrobe allowances etc.

dis is de karma of recession caused greedy politians as dis does not stop using govt funds on trips or even sponsoring dia children to study abroad