{"id":65297,"date":"2025-05-05T10:56:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65297"},"modified":"2025-05-05T10:56:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T10:56:34","slug":"nddc-warns-public-against-fake-scholarship-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/05\/nddc-warns-public-against-fake-scholarship-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"NDDC Warns Public Against Fake Scholarship\u00a0Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has raised the alarm over a fake scholarship scheme being peddled in its name by fraudsters.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement released on Sunday by the Commission\u2019s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mrs Seledi Thompson-Wakama, scammers have been sending deceptive emails from nddcregistry@gmail.com, inviting unsuspecting individuals to a fictitious document verification exercise in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs Thompson-Wakama made it clear that the NDDC is not behind the messages and has no ties to the fraudulent process.<\/p>\n<p>She urged the public to disregard any communication not originating from the Commission\u2019s official website \u2014 www.scholarship.nddc.gov.ng.<\/p>\n<p>She further cautioned against sharing personal information or making any payments to unknown individuals or accounts, stressing that genuine NDDC scholarship announcements and updates are only published through official channels.<\/p>\n<p>The Commission encouraged anyone who has received such messages to report them promptly to law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has raised the alarm over a fake scholarship scheme being peddled in its name by fraudsters. According to a statement released on Sunday by the Commission\u2019s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mrs Seledi Thompson-Wakama, scammers have been sending deceptive emails from nddcregistry@gmail.com, inviting unsuspecting individuals to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65304,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65297\/revisions\/65304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}