The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has shortlisted 1,643 applicants for the In-country Scholarship Scheme for the 2024/2025 academic session.
The fund’s Head of In-country Scholarship Scheme (ISS), Mr. Surajo Abdullahi, announced this yesterday in Abuja during a physical interview of shortlisted candidates for MSc and Ph.D programmes under the scheme.
Abdullahi said 387 candidates had been screened at the Abuja centre while the exercise is holding simultaneously at designated centres across the six geopolitical zones in the country.
The scholarship, fully funded by the PTDF, is mainly for oil and gas courses, such as geology, chemical and mechanical engineering, geosciences, environmental, biochemistry, management and computing.
Abdullahi said the scheme was part of PTDF’s mandates to develop capacity and competencies in the oil and gas industry through its human and institutional capacity development.
“This is a part of human development where we give Nigerian candidates the opportunity to study in the area of oil and gas to close gaps in the industry.
“So, we normally sponsor them to study in the oil and gas-related courses so that we can fill up the gap. We have also widened our scope in different forms of energy and renewables,” he said.