Abuja Carnival: Trinidad and Tobago Offers Scholarship to 30 Nigerians

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Minister of Culture, Tourism and National Orientation, Chief Edem Duke.


Olawale Ajimotokan 
Trinidad and Tobago has announced the award of university scholarship to 30 Nigerian youths to learn the art of management of carnival and costume making for steel band.


The offer was made at the weekend by Trinidad and Tobago's Minister of Arts and Multiculturalism, Dr. Lincoln Douglas, on the opening ceremony of the annual carnival in Abuja.


The beneficiaries, it was learnt, would study for degree in Carnival Art Management of Festival in two institutions, University of Trinidad and Tobago and University West.

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  • Is this guy Lincoln Douglas from T&T?.He don't look as a Trini to me.Merchant have to be turnning in his grave.And Merchant know what he was singing about,when he sang PAN IN DANGER.So somebody please check this Douglas guy.

  • Is this the first time our Government offered scholarships to foreign nationals?  

  • In the USA a person who attend college and take out a student loan, it takes them approx 20 years to pay it back, TT have FREE education up to Tertiary level and it is going begging - the Govt spend $40 million dollars to develop the G-PAN & PHI where are these pans today????????????????? UWI & UTT offer degrees for pan tuning, arranging & management FREE - check the classroom and count how many TT nationals taking advantage of these courses!!!!!!!!

    It is not the GOVT or Pan Trinbago fault for TT losing the pan business - IT IS WE....we do not appreciate NOTHING.....we only COMPLAIN & CRITICIZE.....

    • Good point Garvin but maybe if they offer these courses at a vocational level they might attract more applicants.

      Frankly I don't see how a degree in pan tuning could help someone outside T&T.

      • Cecil, I am telling you we in Trini to damn happy, we are only looking for an EXCUSED - Imagine we have 17,000 illegal Jamaicans, 12,000 illegal Guyanese, Nigerians etc etc and Trini's complaing they want a JOB - Trini's want to start on Top.....

        • Yes Gavin! ... and they want to start ON TOP with the music too. That is beyond laughable!

           

          • FYI there are approx 80 Nigerians national currently studying in UTT campus (Point Lisas) in the Energy Dept. (not scholarships) and this is an ongoing exchange of students every year.....

            • Thanks Gavin,

                                      I was of the belief that our Government had awarded scholarships to others in the past. Thanks for the correction.

  • George,  this is only a sample of what is happening world-wide.  If this news flash came out this week, so too did the UN's   agenda where they want Western Nations to spend more money to assist nations that have been wasting foreign aid for years.  The west must now pay non-western nations for whatever inclement weather nature has dumped in their laps, because it is "our" fault.  Global warming/global cooling, and all the Eco-fascists numb nuts.  They are now saying that the west should pay the Philippines for the tornado of two weeks ago.    If the talking heads behind this venture had a dram of common sense, they would give those scholarships to Trinidadians first.  They must help the Nigerians rise to the top on the backs of their own people. 

  • How do these Politicians arrive at these decisions?!!  30 SCHOLARSHIPS to help reduce crime on the streets of Nigeria?!! Are we playing GODfather here??!! 30 SCHOLARSHIPS????  Dr Lincoln Douglas Sir, I thought our Prime Minister says that Trinidad and Tobago was not an ATM machine?!!!!!!

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