NLNG launches post-graduate scholarship scheme

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) has started an overseas post-graduate scholarship scheme aimed at supporting the emergence of indigenous experts.
According to Sienne Allwell- Brown, General Manager, External Relations of the company, the programme, which will start next year, will support 10 students with scholarships to pursue post-graduate studies in Geosciences, Environmental Studies, Information Technology, Management Sciences, Engineering, Law and Medicine in the United Kingdom.
Allwell-Brown, who spoke at the media event to launch the programme in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, added the organisation had decided to partner with the British Council in order to achieve its objective of fairness and independence.
She said: “To achieve our purpose for post-graduate scholarship scheme and also ensure fairness and independence, we decided to leverage on the experience and expertise of a reputable education service provider by partnering with the British Council, an internationally recognised service provider in the area of scholarship management and partnership brokerage.”
Allwell-Brown lamented that despite the huge attention and resources the education sector had received, with regard to quality of education, there was still a wide gap between Nigeria and the rest of the world.
“And while other gaps exists, for example in job creation, integration of training with our needs, sustainable management of natural resources and especially empowerment of our youths; it is a fact that these other gaps cannot be eliminated without addressing education,” she said.