The Nigerian postgraduate students sponsored by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) have left Nigeria to resume their studies in various Information Technology and related fields in Turkey.
The Director-General of NITDA, Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, while addressing the 16 masters degree and one PhD candidates urged them to not only be Nigerian ambassadors but NITDA’s and their various families as well.
The NITDA Director General, who was represented at the event by the Director Information Technology Infrastructure Solutions, Dr Usman Abdullahi Gambo, admonished the students to consider themselves lucky to be selected among the over two thousand applicants across the country through a keenly contested exercise.
This set of students represents the first batch of forty postgraduate students that scaled the hurdles and prove their mettle to enjoy NITDA’s scholarship this year.
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The students are expected to pursue a postgraduate degree in Masters and PhD at the prestigious FIRAT University in Turkey.
The selection of masters degree students, whose duration of study is between one year to 18 months, was based on one student per state of the federation including FCT, while the PhD students, whose duration of study is 3 years, were selected on the basis of one student per zone.
The students were further reminded of the enormous responsibilities they are shouldering by representing Nigeria and NITDA because they will henceforth be regarded as NITDA Scholars.
They are expected to justify the confidence repose on them by not only coming out in flying colours but with destabilizing innovations that will take the world by storm.
They were equally reminded of their signed contract with NITDA to return to Nigeria after their studies to give back to the country for a minimum of three years.
This, among others, is another way of fulfilling NITDA’s mandate and priority areas of capacity building in Information Technology Development.
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