NDDC Scholarship Alert!!!

SCHOLARSHIP ALERT!! NDDC Post-Graduate Foreign Scholarship Program 2016 (Masters and Ph.D)

POSTED ON APRIL 2, 2016 BY Revolutionary Youths

Niger Delta Development Comission (NDDC) was established in 2000 with the mission of facilitating the rapid, even and sustainable development of the Niger Delta into a region that is economically prosperous, socially stable, ecologically regenerative and politically peaceful.

As part of our Human Resource Development initiatives, Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, is commencing the 2016 Post-Graduate Foreign Scholarship Programme, to equip Niger Deltans with relevant training and skills for effective participation in the Local Content programme of the Federal Government, as well as compete globally in various professional fields.

Description
The Scheme is for suitably qualified applicants with relevant Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree from recognized Universities in the following professional disciplines:

• Engineering
• Medical Sciences (M.Sc. Public Health excluded)
• Computer Science/Technology
• Geology
• Geosciences
• Environmental Sciences
• Agriculture
• Environmental or Gas/Oil Law
• Project Management

Application Requirements

• First Degree with minimum of 2nd Class Lower Division for those wishing to undertake a Master’s Degree programme and a good Master’s Degree for PhD candidates from a recognized University.
• Applicants must have gained admission for a Post Graduate Programme in any of the listed disciplines above, in a foreign University.
• Applicants who have already enrolled in overseas’ universities are NOT eligible to apply.
• Guarantor’s written consent of good conduct of the applicant from any of the following persons from the applicant’s community/clan:
  • Member of National Assembly
  • Chairman of the LGA.
  • First class traditional ruler.
  • High Court Judge
• Persons with evidence of cult membership or criminal record shall not be considered for the award.
• Applicants must have completed the mandatory National Youth Service (NYSC).
• Applicants must have a valid Admission Letter from a Foreign University.

Method of Application:

Application must be made on-line with the following attachments:

• Recent passport photograph
• Local Government identification letter.
• Post Graduate (PG) admission letter from Overseas University.
• Relevant Degrees from recognized University.
• N.Y.S.C Discharge Certificate

Note:

• Successfully completed application form will be assigned a registration number automatically.
• Print the hard copy of the on-line generated acknowledgement for ease of reference.
• All shortlisted applicants will be posted HERE

Interested and qualified candidates should (Masters):

Click here to apply

Interested and qualified candidates should (Ph.D):

Click here to apply

Application Closing Date
22nd April, 2016.

'HOPE' A Message For The World

Umem David Emmanuel with Danish Woman floods the Internet with a Message of 'HOPE' for Children across the World.

Read below:

A woman from Denmark named Anja Ringgren Lovén has spent three years in Nigeria saving children from the worst cases of abuse. She is taking care of kids abandoned by their own very families for being witches.

Anja Bjorn Lovén with kids under her care

A section of kids under Anja's care with baby Hope in the middle

Anja took the social media in Nigeria by surprise with the most bizzare pictures you can imagine when she and her team rescued a baby in Akwa Ibom state in Nigeria by January 2016 who had been abandoned by his family to survive on his own for more than three (3) months.

The rescuing of the child HOPE

Anja Bjorn Lovén found baby Hope

Hope lying unconscious

Cheerful Hope

Transformed baby Hope

She renamed the Child 'Hope' and believed she will be able to affect lives through the story of this child. Hope is hale and healthy today as he has recovered fully and he is now under the care of Umem David Emmanuel and Anja Ringgren Lovén just like tens of other kide. It is indeed sickening and much has been left to be desired in Nigeria for the protection of Children in Nigeria, who suffer vagaries of abuses ranging from cultural, religious, and societal beliefs in Nigeria.

Umem David Emmanuel and Baby Hope

Umem David Emmanuel and Baby Hope

Mostly affected by these abuses in Nigeria is the girl child. As they are abducted in the North and forcefully married off and forced into the baby factory market in the South.

We are using this medium to call on the Government of Nigeria to do more to protect her Leaders of tomorrow.

Umem David Emmanuel jnr

Foster kids dining with little Hope below

L-R Umem David Jr, Anja Bjorn Lovén and Umem David Emmanuel

Umem David Emmanuel @Faculty of Law, University of Uyo

The Team

Indeed, the message of 'HOPE' has gone International.

With Rise Of Rape Cases, Should Abortion Be Made Legal in Nigeria?

Though abortions are illegal in Nigeria, according to the US-based Guttmacher Institute, statistics show that at least 1. 2 million induced abortions take place in various parts of Nigeria every year, with the highest number coming from the South-South part of the country, followed by the North-East and South-West. Furthermore, statistics show that 10,000 women die every year in Nigeria from unsafe abortions, carried out by untrained people in unsanitary conditions. This can be leveled down to 27 deaths a day. Abortions are legal, only when it is done to save the life of the woman and two physicians must certify that the pregnancy poses a threat to the life of the woman. More than 456,000 unsafe abortions are done in Nigeria every year; the US Guttmacher Institute estimates.

The law also frowns strictly on abortions and provides accordingly in the Criminal Code Act, Cap C38, Laws of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004. Which states in Section 228 that; 

Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her or causes her to take any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.

 Even women are prevented from trying to get rid of their babies, as Section 229 further states that; 

229.    Any woman who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or uses any force of any kind, or uses any other means whatever, or permits any such thing or means to be administered or used to her, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for seven years.

 Any person who decides to help another procure a miscarriage is also guilty of an offence as stated below in Section 230; 

230.  Any person who unlawfully supplies to or procures for any person anything whatever, knowing that it is intended to he unlawfully used to procure the miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for three years.

 Such offenders however cannot be arrested without an arrest warrant duly executed by the relevant authorities. 

There are certain groups clamouring that provision should be made for people in peculiar situations other than a threat to life, such as where the woman was raped by an assailant. The question being asked is whether such women be forced to live with the results of the shameful act which they will always hurt to remember? This clashes with proponents of the school of thought that life is sacred and taking it should be resisted in all fronts, most especially via capital punishment. 

The debates will definitely continue, however, as the law stands today, in Nigeria, abortions are illegal, except on the condition of saving the life of the mother. 

What’s your opinion, should abortions be made legal?

Comment below:
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