NDDC Blames COVID-19 For Delay In Paying Scholarship Beneficiaries
July 14, 2020
9:53 am
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has attributed the delay in meeting its obligations to the beneficiaries of its 2019 postgraduate foreign scholarship programme to the lockdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inquest by the National Assembly.
The NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili in a statement in Port Harcourt said the commission was making concerted efforts to effect the required payments.
He said contrary to claims in some quarters, the NDDC had not abandoned the scholars, describing them as the commissionβs ambassadors.
…He said: βWe are doing everything possible to make sure that the beneficiaries of the
