No fewer than 700 candidates are participating in ongoing interviews for the overseas scholarship scheme (OSS) of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund
The OSS team lead for South-South geopolitical zone, Sobomabo West, disclosed this yesterday while speaking to newsmen shortly after the interview session of candidates at the University of Port Harcourt.
West said while about 500 candidates were being interviewed for Master of Science programme, about 180 candidates were going for the Doctorate of Philosophy programme. He said, “The organisers are the Petroleum Technology Development Fund but we use panelists from different universities in Nigeria. We are here to interview candidates for MSc scholarship and also for PhD scholarship.
“We started the programme yesterday and so far, for MSc scholarship, we have been able to interview more than 100 candidates and for PhD, we have been able to interview more than 50 candidates. “We hope to finish the process on Friday. I don’t have the number off-hand but for MSc, we are hoping to interview up to 500 and for PhD, we are looking at about 180 candidates.
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