Daily Trust’s Ozibo bags US PhD scholarship
Ozibo Ozibo, a political reporter with Daily Trust newspaper, Abuja, has been selected as one of the six recipients of Michigan State University’s merit-based PhD scholarship in African Studies for the 2019 Fall Semester, beginning August 16. The doctoral scholarship comes with a four-year financial support (2019-2023) in teaching and research assistantships, university and language-study […]
Ozibo Ozibo, a political reporter with Daily Trust newspaper, Abuja, has been selected as one of the six recipients of Michigan State University’s merit-based PhD scholarship in African Studies for the 2019 Fall Semester, beginning August 16.
The doctoral scholarship comes with a four-year financial support (2019-2023) in teaching and research assistantships, university and language-study fellowships, and academic-year stipend.
”The Department of History at Michigan State University is pleased to offer you a doctoral scholarship, effective Fall Semester, 2019.
“You are joining an outstanding academic community of Spartans who, like you, have demonstrated a commitment to achievement, in line with Michigan State’s mission of making a better world,” read a letter signed by Karrin Hanshew, MSU’s Graduate Admissions Director.
Ozibo, who broke 69-year-old academic jinx with First Class Honors at Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan History Department in 2016, joined Daily Trust in 2018 as House of Representatives’ reporter.
Under the supervision of Prof. Nwando Achebe, his PhD research at MSU explores the “Historical Dynamics of Change and Continuity from the Palm Oil Trade to the Crude Oil Revolution in Nigerian Niger Delta, 1830-2010.”
Founded in 1855 as first land-grant university in the USA, MSU, a public research institution in East Lansing, has its PhD African history program ranked No.1 by the US News & World Report.