Members of the public have been warned by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) against falling for scams of fraudsters offering non-existent postgraduate scholarships
The warning was given by the Director of Corporate Affairs at the NDDC, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, in a statement on Sunday.
Thompson-Wakama revealed that the fraudsters solicit money from unsuspecting victims under the pretext of securing scholarship placements.
“The attention of the NDDC has been drawn to fraudulent emails and messages sent to applicants of the commission’s Postgraduate Foreign Scholarship Programme,” she shared.
Speaking further, she disclosed that the fraudulent emails, purportedly sent from [email protected] and claiming to be from the NDDC’s ‘Board Registry,’ invite recipients to a fictitious document verification and authentication exercise.
Thompson-Wakama said 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,” she warned.
She added that all official communication concerning the commission’s scholarship programme is 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.
“We also advise former beneficiaries of the commission’s programmes and prospective applicants to verify all information through the NDDC’s official website: www.nddc.gov.ng.”
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