NDDC Warns of Fraudulent Scholarship Scheme
By Missang AKPET
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has warned the general public of fraudsters offering non-existent scholarships to unsuspecting victims.
The NDDC Director of Corporate Affairs Mrs Seledi Thompson-Wakama, in a statement this morning disclosed that the scammers had been defrauding members of the public under the pretext of securing postgraduate scholarships for them.
The statement read in parts: “The attention of the NDDC has been drawn to fraudulent emails and messages sent to applicants of the commission’s Postgraduate Foreign Scholarship scheme. The emails, purportedly sent from nddcregistry@gmail.com and claiming to be from the NDDC’s ‘Board Registry,’ invite recipients to a fictitious document verification and authentication exercise.
According to Wakama, the purported exercise is scheduled to take place from May 19 to May 21 at Bishop Oluwole Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
“Members of the public are hereby advised that the NDDC has no affiliation with this fraudulent selection process,” all official communication concerning the commission’s scholarship programme are conducted exclusively through the official NDDC portal: www.scholarship.nddc.gov.ng.
“Applicants are strongly advised to disregard any unsolicited messages requesting money, invitation, sensitive information, or offering scholarship placements outside of the official NDDC procedures,” she warned.
She urged anyone who receives such fraudulent emails to report them immediately to the appropriate law enforcement authorities while encouraging Nigerians interested in the NDDC’s programmes to utilise only the official NDDC communication channels.
