The second batch of 17 beneficiaries of the Niger Delta amnesty programme have arrived? Poland on a two-year training programme.
Polish Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Niesioywski Przemyslaw, announced this yesterday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.
NAN reports that the arrival of the students brings to 29 the number of beneficiaries on Poland’s sponsorship.
The first batch of 12 students that left for Poland in July this year is expected to conclude their training in July 2012.
NAN reports that the students will undergo a two-year course in maritime education at the Polish Maritime Academy in Gdaniya.
Przemyslaw said the students, who are all males, were duly screened and carefully selected by the institute before they were given admission.
He recalled that 10 students out of the 22 students, who were in the first batch, were sent home, “for lack of interest in their field of study’’.
The ambassador said that on completion of their studies, the beneficiaries would be awarded the, “Officer of the Watch Certificate’’, a qualification, “which can enable them to practice in any maritime industry’’.
He said that a total of 200 students would benefit from the training, which would be done on a quarterly basis.
The ambassador listed other areas of partnership between Poland and Nigeria in the education sector to include linguistics.