Maryam Abeeb , Abuja
The Embassy of Russia in Nigeria, has offered Scholarship to Nigerians, urging the citizens to explore opportunity through application for the ongoing Scholarship programme, to improve themselves educationally.
This call was made through Mr Ivan Lydkin, Press Attache of the Embassy, in Abuja while addressing the team of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) executive.
He described the scholarship programme as Russia’s way to strengthen its bilateral relations with Nigeria, under its reunification intiative.
According to him, one of Russia’s missions here was to introduce Nigeria students to Russia’s academic opportunities, to enable them improve themselves.
Lydkin said, “We have organised interactive sessions in Nigeria for Russia Alumni in the country who are over 10,000.
“We work with 30 courses and offers full educational programme and our programme has been growing bigger and better over the years.
