{"id":4948,"date":"2025-10-26T17:49:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/pap-we-expanded-the-presidential-amnesty-scholarship-scheme-to-impact-more-students-and-communities-in-the-niger-delta___says-otuaro\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T17:53:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T17:53:16","slug":"pap-we-expanded-the-presidential-amnesty-scholarship-scheme-to-impact-more-students-and-communities-in-the-niger-delta___says-otuaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/10\/26\/pap-we-expanded-the-presidential-amnesty-scholarship-scheme-to-impact-more-students-and-communities-in-the-niger-delta___says-otuaro\/","title":{"rendered":"PAP: \u201cWe Expanded The Presidential Amnesty Scholarship Scheme To Impact More Students And Communities In The Niger Delta\u201d___Says Otuaro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Ebiowei Gabriel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has expressed his unwavering commitment to ensuring that more indigent students and communities of the Niger Delta benefit from the PAP scholarship scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stated this while explaining what informed his decision to expand the scheme and increase formal education opportunities for poor students, and to build a huge manpower base in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otuaro spoke during an interactive session in London on Saturday with the beneficiaries of the scholarship initiative deployed for undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in universities across the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The engagement, which was at the instance of the PAP boss, provided an opportunity for the Office and the scholarship students to discuss issues pertaining to their welfare and challenges with a view to addressing them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otuaro said that while in-country scholarship deployment was 3800 in the 2024\/2025 academic year, the figure increased to 3900 in the 2025\/2026 and foreign scholarships were about 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He attributed the increase in deployment to the massive support of President Bola Tinubu and the Office of the National Security Adviser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Otuaro stressed that he was greatly encouraged by the President and the NSA, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and that he knows how impressed both of them are concerning the PAP initiatives, which align with the Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He reiterated his call on the students to justify the huge investment in their education by the Federal Government by studying hard to make good grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also urged them to conduct themselves and be responsible ambassadors of Nigeria while in the U.K, stressing that &#8220;you will be adding value to your families and communities when you complete your programmes successfully.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PAP helmsman said, &#8220;We want the scholarship programme to impact more students and communities in the Niger Delta. That&#8217;s why we have expanded it and increased formal education opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We want you to take this opportunity very seriously so that the government, too, will be encouraged. I know how much support His Excellency, President Bola Tinubu GCFR, gives to the Presidential Amnesty Programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mr President and the National Security Adviser (NSA), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, are very impressed with what we are doing. On your behalf I would like to, once again , thank His Excellency and the NSA for giving you this life-changing opportunity. We are confident that Mr President and the NSA will continue to support us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The knowledge you are receiving in your institutions today is to enable you plan yourself and prepare for the future. Whatever knowledge you gain cannot be taken from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;So as PAP scholarship students, we expect responsible and good behaviour from you. Government is investing heavily in you and you have the obligation to justify the investment. Be agents of change and avoid acts of mischief while in the U.K.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Signed:<br \/>Mr Igoniko Oduma<br \/>Special Assistant on Media to the Administrator, Presidential Amnesty Programme<br \/>26\/10\/2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ebiowei Gabriel The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has expressed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[1540],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-pap-we-expanded-the-presidential-amnesty-scholarship-scheme-to-impact-more-students-and-communities-in-the-niger-delta___says-otuaro"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_4292-1.jpg?fit=586%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5229,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/pap-scholarship-scheme-vehicle-for-better-future-for-niger-delta__-says-otuaro\/","url_meta":{"origin":4948,"position":0},"title":"\u201cPAP Scholarship Scheme Vehicle For Better Future For Niger Delta\u201d__ Says Otuaro","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"December 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Ebiowei Gabriel The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Dr Dennis Otuaro, has described the programme's scholarship scheme as a major vehicle towards ensuring a better future for the Niger Delta. 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