The President, Muhammadu Buhari , has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission to pay its scholarship beneficiaries studying abroad.
This was contained in a statement titled ‘NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project’ and signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, on Tuesday.
Odili said Buhari conveyed the directive to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. The order is coming barely 24 hours after the abandoned students protested at the Nigeria High Commission office in London. Odili explained that scholars of the Commission, who are facing hardships abroad because of the non-remittance of their fees and stipends, would be paid by the end of the week.
He said the delay in the remittance of the fees was caused by the sudden death of Chief Ibanga Etang, the then Acting Executive Director, Finance and Administration, EDFA, of the Commission in May.The statement quoted Odili as saying, “Under the Commission’s finance protocol, only the Executive Director and the Executive Director can sign for the release of funds from the Commission’s domiciliary accounts with the Central Bank of Nigeria.
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