The Niger Delta Growth Fee (NDDC) has raised an alarm over a fraudulent scheme focusing on Nigerian candidates for its Postgraduate Overseas Scholarship Programme with a faux doc verification train scheduled to happen in Lagos.
This was disclosed in a press assertion issued on Might 4, 2025, by Seledi Thompson-Wakama, the Director of Company Affairs on the NDDC.
In accordance with the assertion, the Fee turned conscious of fraudulent emails from [email protected], which falsely declare to be from the Fee’s ‘Board Registry’ and invite scholarship candidates to a faux verification train.
“The eye of the Niger Delta Growth Fee, NDDC, has been drawn to sequence of fraudulent emails and messages being despatched to candidates of the Postgraduate Overseas Scholarship Programme.
The mailing tackle ([email protected]), claiming to be the Fee’s ‘Board Registry,’ invitations unsuspecting members of the general public to a faux doc verification and authentication train scheduled for Might nineteenth—twenty first, 2025, at 30 Bishop Oluwole Avenue, Victoria Island, Lagos,” the assertion learn.
The Fee made it clear that it has no hyperlink in anyway with the exercise, warning candidates and most of the people to be cautious of scams involving unofficial channels.
“We need to make clear that the NDDC is just not related to this fraudulent choice course of and train. All official communications in regards to the scholarship programme will solely be via the official NDDC portal (http://scholarship.nddc.gov.ng),” the assertion learn.
The NDDC additional suggested candidates to train warning and disrespect any communication requesting cash or delicate info exterior of the Fee’s verified platforms.
“Candidates are strongly suggested to ignore any unsolicited messages requesting cash, an invite, delicate info, or providing scholarship placement exterior of the official NDDC processes. Anybody who receives such messages is inspired to report them instantly to the suitable authorities, as your security and privateness are our precedence.”
Thompson-Wakama additionally inspired members of the general public to hunt clarification solely via the fee’s established channels.
“We urge these with professional inquiries concerning the scholarship programme to contact us via our official channels. We additionally encourage beneficiaries of our programmes to confirm details on the NDDC’s official web site: [http://nddc.gov.ng],” the assertion learn.
The Niger Delta Growth Fee (NDDC) is a Nigerian federal company established to deal with the socio-economic and environmental challenges dealing with the Niger Delta area. Its major mandate is to supervise the sustainable improvement of this oil-rich space, which has lengthy been affected by underdevelopment and environmental degradation.
The NDDC works to enhance infrastructure, create job alternatives, and, in finishing up its packages, the Fee collaborates with each federal and state governments, addressing key sectors resembling healthcare, schooling, and infrastructure improvement.
