₦airaland Forum

jelani01:
The results is ready however it would be officially made public next week. They are still working on some likely local institutions that could accommodate the number of local scholars appointed for their MSc/PhD.

But they should contact the successful applicants this week before making it public next week

Even if its next week only successful will contacted.

Lets just continue praying guys. The list has been ready since 21st of last month.

DMainMan:
It changes due to foreign immigration policy. But what I know is that the money is more than ok.

Ok. Thanks. Do they get laptop also?

DMainMan:
From past, I think PTDF local scholars receive laptop and one million naira annually. Usually one to two years for MSc
and three to four years for PhD. I do not know of recent trend.

But I do know that nowadays PTDF seems not to care about local scholars unlike foreign scholars who they pamper.
Since there is change of management, the issue would most likely be resolved. U can further ask "widrics" who was among
those who won last year Local scholarship.

What about the foreign scholars. How much do they get please?

Silti:
Can someone use ptdf scholarship outside of the schools they specified like canada, or usa?

Capital NO

Genchem93:
Who says strategic management and CSS is not related to oil and gas?

Well, they are not among tbe ones specied by PTDF

DMainMan:
the area u seek should b among the courses
PTDF specified. They won't accept course not related to oil and gas.

This time you're wrong the DmainMan because two of my friends got the the scholarship one is doing strategic management and the other is cyber security. The most important thing is to secure the scholarship.

Ellacity:
I have waited patiently and observed some failures or better still inability of some of us to reason through their head or better still deliberately wanna have advantage over others. Honestly speaking, any information feed here is no longer a fair interview because you have added to the people that will be interviewed and they will definitely be better in answering and presenting their proposal. I noticed what happened here during MSc CBT exam, some people came here and gregariously wrote what they were asked and that put them at the disadvantage. Someone who was privileged to have seen the list of shortlisted masters scholars told me that people that wrote late performed extremely well unlike the early birth, and I know what happened because I was here and I saw how they posted their new words and other capitalised on that and became better than them. My point is that asking for a clue in a game of competition and mostly from your competitor is nonsense, its inhuman, stupidity and arrant nonsense. Some of us here are using our mouth in reasoning instead of our head. Anyways for me, I did mine and it was very fantastic and if you want to know how it went and they questions they asked me, please feel free and write me back from saturday 29th July, 2017 after the whole exercise then I will be free to share with you but before the exercise then you are a cheat and wanna take advantage of some myopic and intellectual deluded entity in human skin, thinking purely with their psychotic invariance, some mis-match in their faculty of thought with some element of madness vis-a-vis innuendoted personality of highest degraded animal.

Having said that, go for your own interview like I did, come back here and lets share our own experience for the people that will come here next year. This to me I felt its fair and it is consistence with the natural justice, equity and good conscience and its purely acceptable to the extent of its consistency.

I am Dr. ELLACITY

Well said bro

OVER 1000 CANDIDATES FACE INTERVIEW PANEL FOR THE AWARD OF PTDF SCHOLARSHIP (PhD)


A total of one thousand and Ninety (1,090) shortlisted candidates are participating in a one week intensive oral interview process leading to the award of PTDF 2017/2018(PhD) scholarships. The awards cover studies under the Fund’s Overseas Scholarship Scheme, the in-country Local Scholarship Scheme; Split-Site PhD programme as well as the new initiative of tuition free postgraduate study programmes facilitated by partnership agreements with institutions in Brazil, France, Germany and China.

A Central Selection Committee made up of academics and industry experts was constituted by the Fund to conduct the oral interviews for the PhD candidates based on four broad areas open for sponsorship. These are Geosciences, Environment, Management and Engineering.

Inaugurating the PhD Scholarship Central Selection Committee, the Executive Secretary, Petroleum Technology Development Fund, Dr. Bello Aliyu Gusau, described this year’s selection interview as the first of its kind, being a one stop exercise that will produce beneficiaries in 4 different areas of award.

According to him “It is from this exercise that we are going to derive beneficiaries of the Local Scholarship in Nigerian Universities; secondly, it is from this exercise that we are going to get those who will benefit from the Overseas Scholarship programme, thirdly, it is from this same exercise that we are going to get people who are going to benefit from other collaborations and partnerships that we are building especially in Germany, France, China and other places. Equally important is the fact that it is from this same exercise that we are going to derive the beneficiaries of our Split-Site PhD programme”.

The PTDF Executive Secretary said that in the last one year, the Fund had been working on how best to redirect the traffic of scholarship awardees away from foreign universities to Nigerian universities without losing the required value and standard. “It is in the pursuit of this that we met with Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities and we had extensive discussions on what needs to be done. We have expressed some of our concerns especially in terms of duration and completion time. In addition to that we are also trying to build our own institutions. We have an Institute in Kaduna -the National Institute of Petroleum Studies (NIPS) and we have developed it to a level that we can inaugurate the Split-Site programme there”.

A breakdown of the participants in this year’s oral interview for selection of candidates for PTDF PhD scholarship, indicates that five hundred and twenty-Nine (529) submitted doctoral proposals in areas of Engineering and Renewable Energy, Three Hundred and Sixty-Six (366) on Environmental Management, and One Hundred and Ninety Five (195) on Computing and Geosciences.

The screening committee is expected to interview and assess the candidates based on the scoring template provided by the Fund which include the quality of their research proposals, its relevance to the oil and gas industry among other criteria set for the exercise.

The Fund from 2001 to date funded the training of 5,024 scholars in various fields related to the oil and gas industry under the Overseas and Local Scholarship Schemes. 3,545 were for Master’s (MSc), 1,156 (PhD) and 323 benefitted from the undergraduate Local Scholarship Scheme of the Fund.

ciggy000:
Is there any one with an inside info concerning firs recruitment cos am still hopeful something is gonna happen

Recruitment is finished. Nothing remains bro. Just go and continu with the hustle

mystikal:
9 o clock candidates still in. First day chaos I guess

Wow

Let us all exercise patience brothers. Its coming to an end. In two weeks time everything will be over. So please we should calm ourselves there is no need for this squabble

ORDER! ORDER!! ORDER!!!

xyzoke:
my brother you are absolutely correct and have spoken the mind of many in this forum. Given that ptdf did not start this year's process on time, effort should be geared towards releasing the results before July ending because ATAS takes 20 to 30 working days from the mails send to us by us schools with the warning that the number of days increases from April to September due to traffic and no jumping of protocols. please flexisafsupport, help us convey our challenges to ptdf management. Unless they have a method of by-passing these process and secure visas for the successful ones.

Let us all exercise patience and pray that our names come out successful. There is no reason for this rush.

Prudento:
Hello flexisafsupport,

Please is there any updated information from ptdf on the results of MSc exams? Is the list coming out same time with phd list?
some us who would be fortunate to get the scholarship will need to apply for Academic Training Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate, which takes about 20 days to process. Afterwards, we would need to apply for Confirmation of Acceptance (CAS), which may take two weeks. It's after these that we can think of processing Visa. However, some of us have start dates in first Week of September.
Please do as much as you can to help. We appreciate your support.
Kind regards,

Dont be in hurry bro. Just wait to see your name first. Thats the most important thing

Anyone going University of sheffield here?

Prudento:
As soon as possible can be September

Start expecting anytime from 20th of this month

Hello. Anyone with Human Resource past questions?

DMainMan:
UPDATE ON PTDF AFTER TEST

Due to low oil price and economic crises, only few people will be admitted for overseas scholarship this year. If u choose Brasil and Germany schools with partnership with PTDF then this may be secured.

The exam is quite unfair so is life. However, there is still hope because selection though determined by your state, in case of discrepancies, the course chosen, O level and Female gender is still accounted for.

If it happens any of you get local scholarship, kindly choose IFP school, Shell Centre of Excellence Benin, OAU Centre of Excellence and private universities.

There school fees is over a million and u get quality education and conducive environment with no strike and lecturer problem. Do not choose to go to any regular schools. No real impact and differences between u and undergraduates.

Any clue on when the result will be out

flexisafsupport:
Hello,

Mobile Phones, Handbags, Books, Calculators, Papers and any other material which in the judgment of the invigilator will give the applicant(s) undue advantage would not be allowed into the Hall.

Please take notice

But you said we should come with writing materials

Warlord3000:
sorry about that... probably your Glo ntwk area... cos I still used over 1Gb on download stable this morning around 4am to 7am..

use for download during early hours of the day

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Warlord3000:
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use for download during early hours of the day

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aamstih:
Hi guys,
Havent received a text or email what could be the probs pls?

You havent been shortlisted

Alhamdulillah. I don recieve my invite.

Mlayidi:
House, How are we? What's d update

The budget will be passed next week and we'll see.....

Whats the purpose of asking past Q when you ' re not sure whether the exams will hold or not?

I have a dream ✈✈✈

Mlayidi:
In 2weeks time everything will be over by God grace

Haha 2 Weeks almost don pass and its not yet over, it seems you are be mislead. Next time keep your info to yourself.

transbut5:
i am suspecting June 10.....IV should start rolling in by Monday.............

Mr. Suspecter which date are you now suspecting? 17, 24 or 1st July

na2016:
Bro, even June 10th isn't feasible again as PTDF sends out invites like 2 weeks to the exams.

Well, it depends, cos last time it was only Abuja/Lagos centre but this year every geopolitical zone has its centre so we cant know for sure. Lets just hope for the best.