Project ID: 30625

Chinese Government provides 70 student scholarships to build the country’s capacity in the oil and gas sector

Summary

Funding agency [Type]

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution [Government Agency]

Recipient

Nigeria

Sector

Education (Code: 110)

Flow type

Scholarships/training in the donor country

Infrastructure

No

Category

Intent

Development (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Commercial

Development

Representational

Mixed

Financial Flow Classification

ODA-like (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Official Development Assistance

Other Official Flows

Vague (Official Finance)

Flows categorized based on OECD-DAC guidelines

Project lifecycle

Status

Implementation (The next section lists the possible statuses.)

Pledge

Commitment

Implementation

Completion

Suspended

Cancelled

Milestones

Commitment

2013-01-01

Actual start

2013-07-01

Description

In July, 2013, Oluwole Oluleye, the executive secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), said in a statement that 70 Nigerian youths had begun the Bachelor of Science Studies in the Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology and Guangzhou City Construction College in China with the assistance of overseas scholarships. These scholarships were provided to Nigerians in order to build the country’s capacity in the oil and gas sector. The monetary value of these scholarships is uncertain.

Number of official sources

1

Number of total sources

2

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Details

Cofinanced

No

Direct receiving agencies [Type]

Government of Nigeria [Government Agency]