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Amidst probe, NDDC 'pays stranded UK scholarship students'

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The students recently took to the streets to demand payment of their tuition and stipends.

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He added that the commission had also begun processes for the payment of school fees owed 94 scholarship beneficiaries for 2018 batch. After the protest, President Muhammadu Buhari on August 5 directed the immediate payment of the fees owed to the students.“Among the 197 beneficiaries are 43 scholars for Doctor of Philosophy , comprising 12 for 2016 and 31 for 2019.“In the Master of Science , category, 154 beneficiaries of 2019 were paid 30,000 dollars each, amounting to 4.42 million dollars .

The NDDC spokesman blamed the delayed payment to the death of Ibanga Etang, the then acting Executive Director of Finance and Administration , of NDDC.

 

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