{"id":7925,"date":"2016-02-24T20:52:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7925"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:52:43","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T20:52:43","slug":"rivers-cancels-overseas-scholarship-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=7925","title":{"rendered":"Rivers cancels overseas scholarship programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><!-- BEGIN JUMIA --><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsc?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.35243&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/marketing.net.jumia.com.ng\/ts\/i3556158\/tsv?amc=aff.jumia.44339.52450.35243&amp;tst=!!TIMESTAMP!!\" alt=\"NG-[C:G.Wacc,B:Allbrand,Wk:0616,Dim:160X600]:Shape_Wear\" width=\"160\" height=\"600\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<p><!-- END JUMIA --><\/p>\n<p>The Rivers government has informed parents and guardians of students currently benefiting from the state government funded scholarship program in various universities across the world, that resources are no longer available to continue with the sponsorship abroad. As a result, the Rivers government will no longer pay the tuition and allowances of the scholars and has consequently advised all of them to return home with the exceptions of those students in their final year ending 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaymu.com.ng\/electronics\/?utm_source=pap&amp;utm_medium=aff&amp;utm_campaign=14df0c30&amp;a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=14df0c30\" target=\"_top\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/accounts\/default1\/a72f75b38\/14df0c30.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"http:\/\/kaymu.postaffiliatepro.com\/scripts\/a72f75i38?a_aid=Omafume&amp;a_bid=14df0c30\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Pepple, executive director\/ CEO of RSSDA isclosed that returning students will be offered admission in the state owned University of Science and Technology or the FG owned University of Port Harcourt, unless \u201cyour course of study is not available in either of these institutions, then admission will be sought in any government owned institution in Nigeria that offers your course.\u201d The students will however be transferred to the same level in Nigeria as they currently are abroad. At the moment, there are students on RSSDA scholarships in Canada, the UK, Ireland, India, Singapore and Malaysia<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Wike.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7512\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7512\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Wike.jpg\" alt=\"Wike\" width=\"296\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rivers government has informed parents and guardians of students currently benefiting from the state government funded scholarship program in various universities across the world, that resources are no longer available to continue with the sponsorship abroad. As a result, the Rivers government will no longer pay the tuition and allowances of the scholars and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7512,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1483,40],"class_list":["post-7925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state","tag-lawrence-pepple","tag-rivers-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Wike.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-23P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7926,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7925\/revisions\/7926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}