The Nigerian Society of Engineers has granted a N16m scholarship to 16 candidates who had the highest scores in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The NSE Chairman, Babagana Mohammed, stated this at a scheduled meeting of the NSE on Tuesday.
The meeting was held in honour of the top UTME candidates in the country who incidentally all seek to study engineering.
About 13 students scored above 350 with Miss Maduafokwa Egoagwuagwu from Anambra State getting the highest with a score of 365.
The Chairman, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Babagana Muhammed said; “we are going to give a scholarship of five years to each candidate that gains admission. If you gain admission next year, you are still entitled. That is the advice I got from JAMB”.
Egoagwuagwu, who seeks to study Industrial Production Engineering at the University of Ibadan, thanked the society of engineers for the kind gesture and promised not to sit on her laurels.
She called on her colleagues to continue to believe in themselves and trust God to do the rest.
