{"id":144291,"date":"2019-08-17T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T05:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144291"},"modified":"2019-08-17T06:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-17T05:15:15","slug":"chinese-government-offers-scholarship-to-58-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=144291","title":{"rendered":"Chinese government offers scholarship to 58 Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"ds-1col file file-image file-image-jpeg view-mode-embedded centered clearfix block-story-object block-story-object-resource block-story-object-resource-image\"><br \/>\n<span class=\"block-story-object-asset\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-element file-embedded\" typeof=\"foaf:Image\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/58-Nigerians-Get-Scholarships-From-China.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"container container-pod container-pod-short\"><span class=\"adunit-parent hide block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\"><span class=\"block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Chinese Government has awarded scholarships to 58 Nigerians among whom were 16 doctorate degree students, 39 masters\u2019 degree and three undergraduates, according to a report byPUNCH.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries received their university admission notices from the Counselor, Embassy of China in Nigeria, Mr Li Xuda, in Abuja on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing the awardees during a pre-departure briefing, the Ambassador of China to Nigeria, Dr Zhou Pingjian, encouraged them to work hard in fulfilling their dreams and to observe and learn what brought China to where it is today.<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cThis year marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People\u2019s Republic of China. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn these years, China has always placed education as fundamental to its pursuit of national rejuvenation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, hundreds of Nigerian students get scholarships and chase their dreams in China; some of them are sponsored by Chinese companies. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year at the Confucius Institute, University of Lagos, the body of Chinese investors announced the award of scholarships to 63 students of the university to study in Chinese institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The envoy added that 6,845 Nigerian students were studying in China with 512 covered by Chinese government scholarship.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese Government has awarded scholarships to 58 Nigerians among whom were 16 doctorate degree students, 39 masters\u2019 degree and three undergraduates, according to a report byPUNCH. The beneficiaries received their university admission notices from the Counselor, Embassy of China in Nigeria, Mr Li Xuda, in Abuja on Friday. Addressing the awardees during a pre-departure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":144292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[8206,375,10341],"class_list":["post-144291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/144292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}