In response to Dubawa\u2019s enquiry, Abu Dhabi University has reacted to a viral message calling on Nigerians to embrace scholarship offers from the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAbu Dhabi University is not offering full scholarships for international students for any program\u201d, Amit Sharma, Abu Dhabi University\u2019s International Student Recruitment Manager replied Dubawa. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dubawa had published a fact-check<\/a> on July 1, 2021 which investigated a viral message that Abu Dhabi University, in the United Arab Emirates is offering fully-funded scholarships for students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The message claimed that Abu Dhabi University, Dubai, was offering free tuition, living allowance, accommodation, as well as medical, travel and stationery allowances for Nigerians to study any course of their choice in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dubawa\u2019s verdict, after filling the fake application and checking the websites promoting the full scholarship claims, is that the information is false and misleading, and that Abu Dhabi University is not offering fully funded scholarships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr. Sharma confirmed Dubawa\u2019s position by stating in his email that the viral message is \u201cFAKE information\u201d and urged Nigerians not to \u201cfall for it\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foreign education is highly valued in Nigeria, and it is also seen by many as avenues to migrate to more developed countries. Fraudsters are aware of the desire for foreign education (especially by those who cannot afford it) and they therefore create scholarship scams to prey on this desire. Dubawa has fact-checked such scams as it relates to general education<\/a> and even Qur\u2019anic\/Islamic education<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Apart from full scholarship scams, fraudsters also sometimes publish disinformation claims about government institutions<\/a> or philanthropists<\/a> giving bursaries or grants to students and members of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In response to Dubawa\u2019s enquiry, Abu Dhabi University has reacted to a viral message calling on Nigerians to embrace scholarship offers from the school. \u201cAbu Dhabi University is not offering full scholarships for international students for any program\u201d, Amit Sharma, Abu Dhabi University\u2019s International Student Recruitment Manager replied Dubawa. Dubawa had published a fact-check on July 1, 2021 which investigated a viral message that Abu Dhabi University, in the United Arab Emirates is offering fully-funded scholarships for students. The message claimed that Abu Dhabi University, Dubai, was offering free tuition, living allowance, accommodation, as well as medical, travel and stationery allowances for Nigerians to study any course of their choice in 2021. Dubawa\u2019s verdict, after filling the fake application and checking the websites promoting the full scholarship claims, is that the information is false and misleading, and that Abu Dhabi University is not offering fully funded scholarships. Mr. Sharma confirmed Dubawa\u2019s position by stating in his email that the viral message is \u201cFAKE information\u201d and urged Nigerians not to \u201cfall for it\u201d. Foreign education is highly valued in Nigeria, and it is also seen by many as avenues to migrate to more developed countries. Fraudsters are aware of the desire for foreign education (especially by those who cannot afford it) and they therefore create scholarship scams to prey on this desire. Dubawa has fact-checked such scams as it relates to general education and even Qur\u2019anic\/Islamic education.\u00a0 Apart from full scholarship scams, fraudsters also sometimes publish disinformation claims about government institutions or philanthropists giving bursaries or grants to students and members of the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[122],"tags":[2054,2116,2056],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1898],"class_list":["post-8550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-abu-dhabi-university","tag-nigerian-students","tag-scholarship"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-2dU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1898,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"ganiyat-tijani-adenle","display_name":"Ganiyat Tijani-Adenle","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a5a768b91ca5cd4b622db3e3775213b1af0345d750fa2435b7e3290d557be4ac?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/abu-dhabi-university-1.jpg?fit=1400%2C636&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=8550"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}