Nigerians are being offered scholarship to study in Saudi Arabian universities with over six thousand slots being offered to students across African nations by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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The Saudi government is offering 424 scholarship slots for the country’s students to study various courses, tuition free.
According to a statement on Monday from the Saudi embassy in Abuja, 150 slots are also given to students from the Republic of Benin annually.
The mission advised students to seek information on the scholarship from the ministry of foreign affairs or ministry of education in their countries.
It stated that information could also be obtained from the Royal Embassy.
The statement read, “The Embassy appreciates the cordial relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as with the friendly African countries.”
The second largest governmental spending in Saudi Arabia goes for education. Saudi Arabia spends 8.8 % of its Gross Domestic Product on education, compared with the global average of 4.6%, which is nearly double the global average on education.
The Saudi education system has been criticised. One observation was, “The country needs educated young Saudis with marketable skills and a capacity for innovation and entrepreneurship. That’s not generally what Saudi Arabia’s educational system delivers, steeped as it is in rote learning and religious instruction
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