Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie instant noodles announced the commencement of their 2010 Indomie National Post Graduate Nutrition Scholarship Awards, this could be part of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives in the area of educational empowerment.

According to sources, this is the second phase of the Indomie M.Sc Awards. The Public Relations/Events Manager of Dufil Plc stated that they are assisting and collaborating with selected Nigerian Universities in the training of high level Nutrition and Dietetics professionals, and overtime they will produce a critical number of highly trained nutritionists that will regulate an optimum nutrition for all Nigerians.

The Scholarship is open to all Nigerian Students qualified for admission to do M.Sc programme in Nutrition and Nutrition/Dietetics in the Nigerian Universities. Awards will be given to qualified and suitable students from every geopolitical zone of the Federation including FCT.

However, eligible Candidates are to apply in Writing according to the Banners, giving the following information.

Application Criteria:

• Full names
• Photocopy of Admission Letter into the programme
• Application for Admission
• credentials with details of educational history
• evidence of state of origin duly signed by Chairman or Secretary of appropriate Local Government.

NOTE: The completed document should be enclosed in an A4 envelop and should be marked ‘APPL 2010 AWARD’ on the top left corner addressed to the Cordinator, Dufil Nutrition Awards Programme, P.O Box 1983, Sapon Abeokuta, Ogun State or through e-mail to acadaservices@gmail.com on or before July 30th 2010

Water & Soil Solution, a Non-Governmental Organization aimed at providing good drinkable bore hole water in Nigeria now goes into education aid. Yes, you heard it right, education!

According their website information, Water and Soil Solution operates mostly in the Northern part of Nigeria (Sokoto and Nasarawa State to be precise) over time they have build a total of 250 boreholes in the rural areas at no cost.

Surprisingly for me, they are now into providing scholarship to students in Polytechnics and Universities in collaboration with their parent company in Switzerland. (I am not so sure who the parent company is, they did not provide such information. I wonder why, it matters alot!)

Excerpt from their site says the Scholarship Program is their own way of supporting the humanity by supporting students in high institutions.

Water and Soil, registered with Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria declared that they will pay roughly 50,000 Naira to applicants upon screening exercise and verification of student result which they require a minimum of 2 Grade A passes and 4 Credits from either WAEC or NECO examination and 3.0 CGPA for University students.

However, their web site and application page are both not convincing for me! Though this could issues related to their webmaster, I suppose they were very negligent or in experienced enough to know that the site is poor. Sadly, I even submitted an empty application form and I received the response

Your application has been submitted. We will get back to you in due time

But this enough might not be a reason for me to judge the offer.

Thank God, I am a technical person, so I was able to tell that the form might be processing well but only the web master failed to do pre-checking to submitted data. In layman words, probably the application form works well and will submit your data for processing!

If you are interested in the scholarship offer, you may contact them via the following information according to their web site.

Sokoto Address:
17B Ahmadu Bello Way,
Sokoto. Tel: 08131038282,

Nasarawa Address:
165, Shenadam Road, Lafia.
Tel: 08137292718

You may also email them via info@waterandsoilsolution.com or scholarship@waterandsoilsolution.com