The University of Coventry in the United Kingdom will next month sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to boost education in the Niger Delta region. NDDC acting managing director, Professor Nelson Brambaifa, made the disclosure in a statement issued on Monday by the commission’s director of corporate affairs, Mr Charles Odili. The NDDC CEO said the team visited the scholars benefiting from the commission’s Foreign Postgraduate Scholarship Scheme in the University of Coventry, University of Derby, University of Salford, University of Birmingham, University of Hertfordshire and University of Huddersfield. He said NDDC was very serious with its human capacity building programmes, noting that it had reached an agreement that would allow some of the lecturers from the UK universities to come to universities in the Niger Delta region on exchange programme. Dr Amadi said the collaboration would include the establishment of an e-library system which would allow researchers and scholars from the Niger Delta region to have access to materials published from top journals and electronic databases.

Source: Nigerian Tribune April 18, 2019 02:48 UTC