FG opens portal for scholarship awards to tertiary institutions

FG opens portal for scholarship awards to tertiary institutions

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The Federal Ministry of Education has opened the portal for eligible and interested candidates to apply for the 2023/2024 Nigerian Scholarship Award (NSA) and Education Bursary Award (EBA) tenable in the country’s public tertiary institutions.

According to a statement by Didi Walson-Jack, the ministry’s permanent secretary, “Applicants for postgraduate studies should possess a minimum of first degree with second class honours in the upper division.”

Candidates applying for the scholarship must be registered full-time students of public universities.

Besides, other applicants for undergraduates, higher national diplomas and national certificates of education must be registered full-time students in their second year or above, in federal or state universities, polytechnics, monotechnics or colleges of education.

The statement also requested all undergraduate scholarship applicants, including persons with disabilities to have at least 4.0 cumulative grade points aggregate (CGPA) on a 5-point scale or 5.0 on a 7-point scale or its equivalent.

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