Thirty-two students under the scholarship scheme of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have graduated with first-class honours in 2025 from different universities across Nigeria.
In addition, no fewer than 134 other scholarship beneficiaries earned second-class upper division in various competitive courses during the same academic year.
The courses studied by the beneficiaries include law, pharmacy, aeronautical engineering, cybersecurity, electrical engineering, software engineering, nursing science, mechanical engineering, architecture, accounting and criminology. Others are computer science, anatomy, international relations and diplomacy, geography and regional planning, microbiology, public health, information technology, medical laboratory science, estate management and mass communication.
The PAP Administrator, Dr Dennis Brutu Otuaro, commended the sponsored students for graduating with first-class and second-class upper division grades in different disciplines. He expressed joy over their outstanding academic performances, noting that his administration is encouraged by their exemplary conduct and seriousness as reflected in the quality of their results.
Dr Otuaro said the excellent academic achievements of the scholarship beneficiaries have become part of the success stories of the programme in promoting human capital development and sustaining peace in the Niger Delta.
He stated that their sterling performances confirm the well-planned educational objectives of the scholarship scheme and the mandate of the PAP, stressing that it aligns with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to him, the students have justified the investment made in their education and have made the Federal Government, the PAP Office, their communities and the Niger Delta region proud.
Dr Otuaro attributed the strong academic results to President Tinubu’s support for the programme and the effective supervisory role of the National Security Adviser, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu.
He urged current PAP scholarship beneficiaries in universities across the country to emulate the graduates and remain focused on their studies to sustain the impressive record.
Dr Otuaro said, “We are indeed happy with the excellent academic performances of our scholarship students in 2025. The number of beneficiaries, all from the Niger Delta, that made first-class and second-class upper division is very encouraging. We commend all of them for the great feats.
“But these commendable academic achievements indicate that we are focused on the implementation of the PAP mandate for the transformation of the Niger Delta through educational and vocational schemes.
“We express our deep appreciation to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR. Without his strong support, these impressive academic feats of our scholarship students and all the success stories recorded would not have been achieved.
“We also extend our sincere gratitude to the Office of the National Security Adviser for effectively supervising the programme in line with Mr President’s Renewed Hope Agenda for the people of the Niger Delta.
“We have a listening father in Mr President who has shown it clearly in his actions that the Niger Delta is on his priority list of development. He has given priority to agencies in the region aside from the ongoing efforts in the construction of the trans-Niger Delta Highway from Lagos to Calabar.
“The people of the Niger Delta are happy with Mr President and what his administration is doing for the region, and will react in due course with the right expression of gratitude.”
