- The Nigerian Society of Engineers has granted N16m scholarship to 16 candidates who had the highest scores in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The Nigerian Society of Engineers has granted N16m scholarship to 16 candidates who had the highest scores in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The NSE Chairman, Babagana Mohammed, stated this at a meeting of the NSE on Tuesday.
The meeting was held in honour of the top 13 UTME candidates in the country who incidentally all seek to study engineering.
About 13 students scored above 350 with Miss Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu from Anambra State getting the highest with a score of 365.
Mohammed said, “The Registrar of JAMB sent me a message that one of his directors is going to join me on this line; Dr Lawal Yusuf and what he advised me to say is that anyone of them that gets admission and is matriculated will enjoy the scholarship.
“He said some are below (the admission) age and some schools have a standard and if you don’t meet up with that age, you cannot get admission.
“But for the records, we are going to give a scholarship of five years to each candidate that gains admission. If you gain admission next year, you are still entitled.”
Mohammed promised that the NSE would henceforth grant scholarships to the best UTME candidates.
The NSE chairman also handed out laptops to all the candidates.
Egoagwuagwu, who scored the highest and seek to study Industrial Production Engineering at the University of Ibadan, called on her colleagues to continue to believe in themselves and trust God to do the rest.
Egoagwuagwu said, “I chose engineering because this country and the world at large need many brains with the ideas that can help us develop and move forward; and what better course than engineering?”
Another recipient of the scholarship, Awesome Osom, who scored 353, thanked the NSE for the gesture.
