Thirty- 3 excessive accomplishing Nigerian college students have obtained complete scholarships totaling $2. ninety two million to wait American universities and schools for the 2024/2025 educational session.
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This feat changed into made feasible via the Opportunity Funds Program of the USA Consulate General Lagos this is designed to boom get admission to to U.S. better schooling establishments for quite certified global college students who've constrained sources to cowl in advance prices of attending a college withinside the United States.
Delivering comments at a reception in Lagos in honor of the U.S. sure college students , Consul General Will Stevens congratulated the students on their admission to numerous top notch U.S. universities to pursue research in a various variety of disciplines. He advised them to take benefit of the possibilities American universities should provide and come to be actively concerned withinside the many groups and golf equipment in an effort to increase their enjoy as global college students .
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"This Fall, you may be part of the over 17,000 Nigerian college students reading withinside the United States. You have correctly navigated the daunting U.S. university and college admissions procedure and we're so excited to your future. You have excelled in Nigeria, and I haven't any doubt that you may keep that route of educational excellence," Consul General Stevens instructed the departing college students .
One of the departing Opportunity Funds Program scholars, Salimat Opeyemi Sofela in the course of the reception.
Chigozie Paul Odo, one of the 2023 Opportunity Fund Program scholars, obtained complete investment for a Ph.D. in Chemistry on the University of South Carolina. His doctoral studies will cognizance on immuno- remedy with the aim of contributing to lasting answers to the remedy of cancer. Odo, who misplaced his father and sole breadwinner for his own circle of relatives in the course of his 2nd 12 months at college , expressed appreciation to the U.S. authorities for masking the in advance prices of making use of to U.S. universities via the Opportunity Funds Program. "My dream of reading withinside the United States which appeared not possible is now a reality," he added.
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