9 PAP-Sponsored Postgraduate Scholarship Beneficiaries Bag Master’s Degrees From UK Universities

•771 To Graduate In Nigeria In 2025
•Otuaro Hails Scholars’ Performances

Nine students who received foreign postgraduate scholarships through the Presidential Amnesty Programme have completed their master’s degree programs at universities in the United Kingdom.

The successful scholars are the first to receive offshore post-graduate scholarships to UK institutions from the PAP Administrator, Dr Dennis Otuaro, for the academic year 2024-2025.

They earned master’s degrees in cyber security, data science and engineering, law, construction and civil engineering management, project management, and ICT from Anglia Ruskin University, the University of Dundee, and the University of Law, respectively.

Also, 711 undergraduate and postgraduate scholarship recipients are expected to graduate from Nigerian universities this year.

The PAP, on Wednesday, 3 December, 2025, organized a graduation reception for the scholars in London.

Mr Igoniko Oduma, Special Assistant on Media to the Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme, said in a statement on Thursday that Otuaro congratulated them on their successful graduation, emphasizing that they completed their programmes in record time, demonstrating the seriousness with which they approached their studies.

He said they have justified the Federal Government’s investment in their education with their successful graduation and urged other beneficiaries not to be distracted in their academic pursuits.

“We congratulate these scholars on their successful graduation. It shows that they took their studies seriously. That is what we demand of every scholarship beneficiary, whether at the undergraduate or post-graduate level”, Otuaro said.

He reiterated his unwavering commitment to expanding the scholarship scheme to create more opportunities for indigent students of Niger Delta extraction to access higher education with a view to closing the human capital development gap in the region.

Otuaro said it was for this reason he deployed 3800 beneficiaries in-country in the 2024-2025 academic year, and increased the figure to 3900 in the 2025-2026 academic session with 200 for foreign scholarships.

Otuaro has so far deployed 7700 students for the PAP scholarship scheme within Nigeria in less than two years.

Within this period, also, he has also deployed 162 students from the region for post-graduate programmes in targeted disciplines in the UK universities.

According to him, this is in conformity with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Tinubu for the Niger Delta, who has given unprecedented support to the PAP because of his sincere love for the area.

The PAP boss said, “Our decision aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda of His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR for the Niger Delta. We will continue to create more higher educational opportunities for students from indigent backgrounds in our region.

“We are also deepening the implementation of the programme’s mandate in informal education and other areas for the sustainable peace and socio-economic advancement of the region.”