A yearly university grant for 200-level students

This guide is for a Nigerian student in 200 level, full time, at a federal or state university, with a CGPA of 3.5 or above on the 5-point scale, who wants the grant that Nigeria's state-owned oil company and one of Shell's oil companies in Nigeria give to students they pick, every year until they finish their degree. It is free to apply and you do all of it from Nigeria: your papers, an online application, your Head of Department's signature, and, if you are shortlisted, a monitored test on a computer with a webcam. It walks every stage from tonight to the first payment, if you are picked, one stage at a time: what you do, where, what you need, what it costs, how long, and what comes next.

Every rule, date and fee below comes from the scheme's own page or the official page that sets it. Updated on 3 November 2026.

Where the call stands today

The 2026 call closes on 30 November 2026. On 3 November 2026 it is open; from 1 December 2026 it is closed (go to Part 8). The scheme's page reads: "Applications should be submitted on or before NOVEMBER 30TH, 2026." The page prints no hour for the close, so submit by the night of 29 November.

On 3 November 2026 you have 27 days. That is enough for a student who starts this week, and too little for one who waits: two of the papers depend on other people (the paper from your state of origin that names your local government, called a letter of identification, and the signature of your Head of Department (HOD)), and the page itself asks you to apply early: "Students are encouraged to submit their applications well in advance of the deadline."

Who gives it. Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo), one of Shell's oil companies in Nigeria, invites applications "on behalf of itself, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, and its co-venture partners". NNPC is Nigeria's state-owned oil company. The scheme is called the NNPC/SNEPCo National University Scholarship. It "provides a yearly grant to the successful applicants from their second year to the completion of their undergraduate degree programme." Shell Nigeria's own page says the programme began in 2016 and "Some 947 beneficiaries have been awarded the scholarship."

What it costs you. Nothing to apply. "Application for NNPC / SNEPCo scholarship is free." and "There are no fees at any stage of the scholarship award cycle." Anybody who asks you for a processing fee is not the scheme.

What happens after the close. "Examination details will be communicated to shortlisted candidates only." Shortlisted applicants sit a test on a computer with a webcam. Then the top ten from each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have their academic records checked before any offer. No page gives a date for the test or for the result.

What no page has said yet. How much the grant pays each year: the scheme's pages print no amount. When the test is held. When the first payment is made. The next call's dates.

From today: what you can still finish

The work that takes longest is the work you do not control: your state's letter of identification, your Head of Department's signature on your profile, and, if you lost them, reprints of your JAMB papers. Everything else is in your hands and takes one or two evenings. Each row says what must already be true for you to finish by the end of 29 November 2026.

Whether the signed profile must be in by 30 November: we cannot tell yet. The page lists the signed profile as steps 13 and 14, after you submit, and prints no separate date for it. Treat it as part of your application: get it signed and uploaded before the close.

The NIN. The application asks your National Identification Number "(if available)" and lets you add it later (steps 15 and 16). The application site's own help page says "Yes your NIN is very compulsory as it helps the scholarship board confirm your identity". The stricter rule is the one you follow: have your NIN in your application before the close.

The papers to get ready, the steps to apply and what the test needs

This is the part you came for. Every line below comes from the scheme's own pages, or the official page they send you to.

The papers to get ready

Tonight, go through this list and tick what you already have. You upload a scan of each one. The application site's help page says files must not be "above 200Kb", so scan each one small (Stage 2, "Scanning every paper", says how).

1. A passport photograph. "A recent passport-sized photograph of the applicant in JPEG format, not more than 200 kilobytes", with "a white background". The application site's help page asks for it at 450 by 450 pixels: "Why must my photo be 450px by 450px? This ensures the clarity of the image so the scholarship board can identify who is being awarded." Make it square, 450 by 450, JPEG, under 200 kilobytes, white behind you.
2. Your admission letter. "University or JAMB Admission Letter". Either one.
3. Your UTME result. The "Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) Result", the JAMB result you entered with.
4. Your O level result or results, and your A level, OND or NCE result if you have one: "O' Level Result(s); and 'A' Level/ OND/ NCE Result(s) as applicable".
5. A letter of identification from your state of origin, showing your local government: "Letter of Identification from the State of Origin, indicating the applicant's local government of origin". If you already have one, check that it names your local government of origin; if it does, scan it. If you have none, start it this week (Stage 2).
6. Your result after 100 level, showing your CGPA: "Academic results (CGPA) after completing100 level".
7. The Government Official Declaration Form, filled, signed and uploaded: "Please click on the link below to download the Government official declaration form. Fill it correctly and upload." It is a two-page form that asks whether anybody in your family works for a government, a government agency, a state-owned company or a political party, and asks your parents' names, jobs and places of work (Stage 2 walks you through it).
8. Your NIN, your National Identification Number from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC). The application asks it "if available"; get it in before the close (above).

And two things you must have of your own: "Every applicant should have a valid personal email account and phone number."

One rule over all of them: "Ensure the name used in applications matches the names on all documentation in the same order. Upload an affidavit or certificate if otherwise." If your name is spelt or ordered differently on any paper, you upload a sworn affidavit, or a certificate, that shows both are you.

The steps to apply

You apply only on the scheme's page: https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/NNPCLTDSNEPCo26. The page itself says "SCHOLASTICA is the official platform for the NNPC / SNEPCo National University Scholarship" and "Application MUST be received not later than the specified deadline via the scholarship portal ONLY." Email applications are not accepted. Applying is free.

1. Open the scheme's page and press "Apply Now".
2. Press "Register Now" and make your account. The form asks your email, a password, your first name, your last name and your mobile number. Make only one account: the site says a person who makes more than one account cannot receive any award from it.
3. Open your email and activate your account.
4. Go back to the scheme's page and sign in. The first time you open the scheme's page (https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/NNPCLTDSNEPCo26), bookmark it, and come back through the bookmark or the "Apply Now" button. Do not tap the link printed in step 4 of the page's own list: it shows the 2026 address, but it opens last year's page, which says "This scholarship application period has ended. You can no longer apply."
5. Fill your personal details, your NIN, your school details and the other information, and upload your scanned papers. Open each file after it goes in: "Ensure you view all documents after uploading to eliminate errors during uploading." Use a white-background photograph.
6. Check everything again. "Recheck application information to avoid errors". Once you have applied, you can only change your details by email (Stage 4).
7. Submit. Go to "Active Scholarships", choose the NNPC/SNEPCo scheme and press "Apply Now".
8. Confirm it went in. "You will receive a notification displayed on the screen and via email that you have successfully applied. To confirm, check "My application" under the "My account" section on your profile account."
9. Download your profile, get your Head of Department to sign it, and upload the signed scan. This is the step people leave too late. The page's words: "enter your Email and Password to download your profile and proceed to have your Head of Department sign the document." and "Upload a scanned copy of the signed profile, this would be used for verification." Plan the visit to your Head of Department now, not in the last days of November.
10. If you had no NIN at step 5, get one and add it to your application.

What the test needs

If you meet the conditions, you may be invited to a monitored test on a computer. "Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for the proctored computer-based test", and its details come to them only. Here is what the scheme's questions and answers on the test (on its "Scholarship FAQs" tab) say.

• A laptop or desktop computer. Not a phone, not an iPad. "Can I make use of an iPad in place of a laptop for the test? No, only computers can be used for the test."
• A webcam. "A webcam is a compulsory requirement as this would be used to record and monitor your test."
• The test company's own browser, and a computer strong enough for it. The test runs in a browser from Talview, the test company, which uses your camera, microphone and screen while you sit it (Talview's secure browser). The scheme sends you to Talview's page: https://pages.talview.com/securebrowser/. It asks for Windows 11 or Windows 10, or one of three recent macOS versions; "2 GB of available hard disk space", "2 GB free RAM" and an "Intel i3 processor, M1 equivalent or higher"; camera, microphone and screen access for the browser; spelling correction and typing assistance turned off; and every other application closed first.
• A steady internet connection. "Ensure all uploads get to 100% and the "Test Completed Successfully" is displayed before closing the page."
• Good light, and your face in front of the camera. "Ensure you are in a room with proper lighting. Also, ensure you are properly positioned in front of the webcam. During the test, ensure you limit unnecessary face movement."
• A scanned ID card. "Yes, you can upload a scanned ID card before starting the test." The page does not say which ID; have your school ID card and your NIN slip scanned and ready.
• A calculator comes on the test page if the test needs one. "If the assessment you are taking requires a calculator, one will be automatically provided on the test page."
• Your login, exactly as sent, inside your time. "Please type in exactly what was sent to you." If the test says you are not scheduled, "you are trying to log in outside of your scheduled testing duration or you have already completed the test."

If you do not have a laptop with a webcam, find one you can use now (a relative's, a friend's, a lecturer's) and check it against Talview's page. Do not wait for the invitation: no page says how much notice it gives.

Part 1. Before you start

What the grant is

The NNPC/SNEPCo National University Scholarship is a grant paid every year to students the scheme picks in 200 level, from that year "to the completion of their undergraduate degree programme". "Scholarships are renewable through graduation." On the amount from year to year, the scheme says: "SNEPCo is committed to offering a consistent aid package throughout the undergraduate years. However, failure to operate in an enabling environment may affect a beneficiary's scholarship package." For a course longer than four years: "Scholarship will be paid for every year of your programme, irrespective of the duration, as long as you do not repeat any year."

How much it pays is not printed on any page of the scheme. Posts online in 2026 print an amount; the scheme prints none, and this guide prints none.

The bodies you will deal with

SNEPCo, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited, is one of Shell's oil companies in Nigeria. It runs the scheme "on behalf of itself, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, and its co-venture partners". The scheme's scholarship board selects the students it awards.

NNPC, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, is Nigeria's state-owned oil company. The scheme carries its name.

The application site is Scholastica, at candidate.scholastica.ng. It is run by Dragnet Solutions Ltd, a company that handles scholarship applications ("A Product of Dragnet Solutions Ltd"). The scheme's page calls it "the official platform", and the page's data-protection notice is in SNEPCo's name. Dragnet answers your questions about the application (Stage 4), and it does not pay the grant: "Please note Dragnet solutions Ltd does not pay scholarship recipients."

Your Head of Department signs the profile you download after you apply. The scheme uses that signed page to check you.

Talview is the company whose secure browser runs the test (Stage 8).

JAMB, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, reprints your admission letter and your result slip if you have lost them (Stage 2).

NIMC, the National Identity Management Commission, gives the NIN (Stage 2).

Your state of origin, through its local government, gives the letter of identification (Stage 2).

Check that you can start

Read these against your own papers before you spend an evening on anything.

• You are a Nigerian citizen. "Yes, you must be a Nigerian citizen." A permanent resident of Nigeria who is not a citizen cannot apply. If you live abroad but are admitted to and attending a public university in Nigeria, you can apply: "Yes, you can apply only if you are a Nigerian who has gained admission into and is attending a public university in Nigeria."
• You are in your second year, full time. "Currently in their second year of full-time study in a Public Nigerian University accredited by the NUC." Not 100 level, not 300 level, not a remedial year ("year 0 ... No."), not part time ("Scholarships are offered to students on full-time studies only.").
• Your university is a public university, federal or state. "You may attend any public university in Nigeria, Federal or State, recognized by the National Universities Commission (NUC)." A private university does not qualify. A polytechnic, a college of education or any other degree-awarding school that is not a university does not qualify: "you must be a student of a Public UNIVERSITY". A vocational school does not.
• Your CGPA is 3.5 or above on a 5-point scale ("or the equivalent in other grade systems"), on your result after 100 level.
• You hold no other oil and gas scholarship. "Not be a beneficiary of any other scholarship from an entity in the Oil and Gas industry, National or International." A scholarship or support from any other kind of organisation is fine: "Yes, as long as the organization is not in the Oil and Gas industry".
• You have not applied before. "I have applied before; can I apply again this year? No."
• There is no age limit. "Must I be between a certain age group to qualify for the scholarship? No."
• Your course. The 2026 call names no course limit: it invites students "studying in National Universities Commission (NUC) accredited courses in public Nigerian universities".

"Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply".

If you entered your university straight into 200 level (direct entry, with A level, OND or NCE), you have no 100-level result. Two lines of the scheme pull apart for you: its FAQ takes students "currently in the 200 level", and its criteria say "Currently in their second year of full-time study". Its terms also say "The applicant's mode of admission vis-à-vis the course duration is taken into consideration in arriving at the number of academic years for the award." The page asks for "Academic results (CGPA) after completing100 level" and lists "'A' Level/ OND/ NCE Result(s) as applicable". Whether a direct-entry student in 200 level can apply, and what she uploads for the 100-level result: we cannot tell yet. Write to scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com from the email you will register with, before you spend on anything, and keep the reply, and ask exactly that: "I entered by direct entry into 200 level; can I apply, and what do I upload in place of a 100-level result?" While you wait for the answer, get every other paper ready, so you lose no days if the answer is yes. If the answer is no, this scheme has nothing for you, because it takes 200-level students once; if yes, upload what it tells you in place of the 100-level result.

The trap: anybody who asks for money

The scheme's page says it four times: "Application for NNPC / SNEPCo scholarship is free."; "There are no fees at any stage of the scholarship award cycle."; "SNEPCo does NOT assign representatives/agents to assist applicants to apply."; "SNEPCo has not authorised any person or organisation to act on its behalf". And it warns: "Beware of fraudulent websites when applying for the NNPC / SNEPCo scholarship online. Such websites may ask you to make some payments in the course of the application."

So: no processing fee, no agent, no "NNPC-SNEPCo representative in my university or community", as the scheme's FAQ puts the question, and no website for applying other than the scheme's page, https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/NNPCLTDSNEPCo26. A site at any other address that takes applications or asks for money is not it. Posts online in 2025 sold "past questions" for this test. They are not from the scheme: no page of the scheme prints past questions.

The two rules this guide follows where two pages differ

• The photograph. The scheme's page asks a JPEG under 200 kilobytes with a white background; the application site's help page asks 450 by 450 pixels. Do both.
• The NIN. The scheme's page asks it "if available"; the application site says it is "very compulsory". Put it in before the close.

Part 2. The whole journey on one page

Stage 1. Check you fit. 200 level, full time, a public university, CGPA 3.5 after 100 level, a Nigerian citizen, no oil and gas scholarship, never applied before. Free. One evening.

Stage 2. Get your papers ready. Your photograph, admission letter, UTME result, O level, letter of identification from your state, 100-level result, and the declaration form, each scanned under 200 kilobytes, and your NIN. From free to a few thousand naira (JAMB reprints ₦1,000 and ₦1,500, by JAMB's 2022 rate table). The letter of identification can take days; start it this week.

Stage 3. Make your account and fill the application. On the scheme's page. Free. One sitting, with your scans ready.

Stage 4. Submit, and confirm it went in. By the end of 29 November 2026. Free. Minutes.

Stage 5. Get your profile signed by your Head of Department, and upload it. Download, print, sign, scan, upload. Free. As long as it takes to see your Head of Department; plan it this week.

Stage 6. Get a computer with a webcam ready. At the same time as Stages 2 to 5. Free if you borrow one.

Stage 7. Wait for the shortlist. Only shortlisted applicants hear. No page gives a date.

Stage 8. Sit the test. On a computer with a webcam, through Talview's secure browser, inside your scheduled time. Free.

Stage 9. The check of your records. The top ten from each state and the FCT have their academic records checked before any offer.

Stage 10. The award and your first payment. The scheme contacts the students it picks directly; the bank or the scheme's consultant contacts you when your payment is ready. Your arrival: the first payment of the grant.

After it: keep it every session. A CGPA of 3.5 every session, full time, no repeated year, no change of course.

The money. Applying costs nothing. What you may spend is on your own papers: a JAMB reprint (₦1,000 for the admission letter, ₦1,500 for the result slip, plus ₦200 for each in colour), your state's fee for the letter of identification (set by each state or local government), printing and scanning, and data. NIN enrolment is free.

The time. About three weeks from tonight to a complete application, if you start this week. Then a wait no page dates, a test, a check, and the award.

Part 3. Stage by stage

Stage 1. Check you fit

Back to the short stages

You want the grant. Before you spend anything, check that the scheme can take you.

Do.

1. Read "Check that you can start" (Part 1) against your own papers: your level, full time or part time, your university, your CGPA after 100 level, your citizenship, and any scholarship you already hold.
2. Find your 100-level result and read the CGPA on it. It must be 3.5 or above on a 5-point scale.
3. If you entered by direct entry into 200 level, follow Part 1's line for you before anything else.

Where. The scheme's page, its requirements tab and its "Scholarship FAQs" tab: https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/NNPCLTDSNEPCo26.

What you need. Your 100-level result, your admission letter.

Cost and time. Free. One evening.

You are done when you have checked each line of Part 1 and every one is true for you.

If it goes wrong. In 100 level now: this call is not yours; go to Part 8 and get ready for the call that comes in your 200 level. In 300 level or above, part time, at a private university, a polytechnic or a college of education: the scheme does not take you. A CGPA below 3.5: the scheme does not take you this year, and it takes 200-level students only, so no later call will.

Next. Stage 2, the same week.

Stage 2. Get your papers ready

Back to the short stages

You fit. Now get each paper into your hands and onto your phone or computer as a clear scan under 200 kilobytes. Start with the one you must collect from somebody else: the letter of identification from your state.

Step 1. Start your letter of identification from your state of origin

Why. The scheme asks a "Letter of Identification from the State of Origin, indicating the applicant's local government of origin". Each state issues it in its own manner, and some need a letter from your village head first, so it is the paper most likely to keep you waiting.

Do. If you already have one, from before, check that it names your local government of origin; if it does, scan it and go to step 2.

1. Find how your own state issues it. Many states call it a certificate of origin or a certificate of state of origin, and issue it through your local government. Look on your state government's website first. Three states' own pages, as examples:

   • Akwa Ibom issues it online on its MyOrigin site (https://myorigin.akwaibomstate.gov.ng/): "Apply on your phone. No trip to the Secretariat". Have ready "A signed letter from your Village Head", your NIN, "A clear photograph of your face" and a phone number or email. "The fee is set by each Local Government Council, so it is not the same everywhere." You pay "Through AkwaRemit only. No officer will ever ask you for cash." The electronic copy comes when it is signed; you collect the printed copy at your local government secretariat. With no phone or data, "Walk into your Local Government Secretariat. An officer fills the form in with you, at the desk."
   • Osun issues it online (https://stateoforigin.osunstate.gov.ng/), and you apply on its portal: "Application can be made on the portal via https://apply.stateoforigin.osunstate.gov.ng/". You make an account, fill your details, attach "your passport and Your NIN", and "Once your application is verified and approved, you can expect to receive it via email within 24 to 48 hours."
   • Ebonyi lists it as a service of its Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters (https://ebonyistate.gov.ng/services/certificate-of-origin): "Indigenes applying through their local government."
2. If your state has no online service, go to your local government secretariat in your state of origin, or send a relative who lives there, and ask for the certificate or letter of identification.
3. When you have it, check that it names your local government of origin. The scheme asks for that.

What it costs. Your state's or your local government's own fee. Akwa Ibom's page says each council sets its own; the other two pages print none.

How long. Osun: within 24 to 48 hours once approved. The other pages print no time. Start this week.

You are done when the letter or certificate, naming your local government of origin, is in your hands and scanned.

If it goes wrong. Emailed papers do not count: "Can I fax or email the application or supporting documents to SNEPCo? No." A paper goes in only by upload on the site, so get the letter before 29 November. If your local government cannot issue it in time, apply with every other paper in place, and upload the letter the moment you have it if the site still lets you. The page prints no rule for a late paper.

Step 2. Your admission letter and your UTME result

Do.

1. Find your university admission letter, or your JAMB admission letter. Either one: "University or JAMB Admission Letter".
2. Find your UTME result.
3. If you have lost them, reprint them on JAMB's e-Facility (https://efacility.jamb.gov.ng/), signed in with the email and password you used for JAMB.

What it costs. JAMB's rate table ("Revised Rates of the Board", 2022): "Printing of Admission letter 1, 000 200 (coloured)" and "Printing of Result Slip 1, 500 200 (coloured)", that is ₦1,000 for the admission letter and ₦1,500 for the result slip, plus a service charge of ₦200 each where it is printed in colour. The scheme asks for your "UTME Result" and does not name which JAMB print; if you have your result slip, scan it.

How long. Minutes, if you remember your JAMB sign-in.

You are done when both are scanned.

Step 3. Your O level, and your A level, OND or NCE if you have one

Do. Scan your O level result or results, and your A level, OND or NCE result where you have one ("as applicable").

You are done when they are scanned.

Step 4. Your result after 100 level

Do. Get the result that shows your CGPA after 100 level, from your department, your faculty or your university's student portal, and scan it. "Academic results (CGPA) after completing100 level".

If it goes wrong. If your university has not released your 100-level result, ask your department for a signed statement of your result. No page of the scheme says what else it takes.

Step 5. Your passport photograph

Do. Take a passport photograph on a white background. Save it as a JPEG, square, 450 by 450 pixels, and under 200 kilobytes.

Why both. The scheme asks "not more than 200 kilobytes" and "a white background"; the application site asks "450px by 450px".

Step 6. The Government Official Declaration Form

Why. SNEPCo asks every applicant whether anybody in the family works for a government, to manage any conflict of interest. The form's own words: "This information is to help us manage scenarios where a conflict of interest may arise considering that we partner with government officials in our operations." The form does not say what a yes changes. Answer it truly: you sign that your answers are "true, correct, and complete", and its compliance team reviews them.

Do.

1. Download the form from the link on the scheme's "How To Apply" tab (https://dragnetnigeria.com/nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship-government-official-information-form-1/). It opens a two-page PDF. This link is on the scheme's own How To Apply tab; the PDF sits on the site of Dragnet Solutions, the company that runs the application site.
2. Print it. On page 1, put your passport photograph in the box marked "PASSPORT". Read the definition of a government official: an official or employee of any government or government agency, ministry or department at any level; anybody acting for a government; an official or employee of a company a government controls, "for example, a state-owned oil company such as Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation"; a political party or its officials; a candidate for political office; an officer of an international organisation "such as the United Nations or the World Bank"; and the immediate family of any of these ("a spouse, dependent child, parent, or household member").
3. Circle Yes or No to the two questions: whether you have read and understood the definition, and whether any member of your family works as a government official. If yes, write the name and how the person is related to you.
4. On page 2, write your name (surname first), sex, state of origin, local government, date of birth and age; your father's name, occupation, role and place of work with its address; the same for your mother; and, where your parents cannot support your education, the family member who is a government official, with that person's occupation, role and place of work.
5. Sign and date it. The form ends: "I declare that, to the best of my knowledge, any information that I have provided in this form is true, correct, and complete. The information captured in this form will be reviewed by our compliance team."
6. Scan both pages, each file under 200 kilobytes; if the upload box takes one file, put both pages in it, scanned in black and white so it stays small.

One thing to know. The form linked for the 2026 call still prints "Award Year: 2025" at the foot of page 2. It is the form the 2026 page links; fill it as it is.

You are done when both pages are filled, signed, with your photograph, and scanned.

Step 7. Your NIN

Do.

1. If you have enrolled before but forgot the number, dial \*346# on the phone number you enrolled with and choose "NIN Retrieval". It costs ₦20, taken from your airtime.
2. If you have never enrolled, enrol at a NIMC enrolment centre near you (NIMC lists them by state at https://nimc.gov.ng/enrolment-centres), with a supporting document. "Enrolment of individuals remains free." You fill a form, your ten fingerprints and your face are captured, and you get a transaction slip; NIMC: "The applicant will be requested to come back for the NIN within 1-5 working days". Go this week. NIMC's free line is 08000616462.

What it costs. Enrolment free; \*346# ₦20.

You are done when you have your NIN written down.

Step 8. Your name, the same on every paper

Do. Read your name on every paper: your admission letter, UTME result, O level, letter of identification, 100-level result and NIN. "Ensure the name used in applications matches the names on all documentation in the same order. Upload an affidavit or certificate if otherwise." If any one differs (a missing middle name, a different spelling, the names in another order), swear an affidavit (a sworn statement) that the names are yours, or use a certificate that shows it (a marriage certificate, for a changed surname), and scan it.

What it costs. The fee where you swear it.

Scanning every paper under 200 kilobytes

The application site's help page says documents must not be "above 200Kb". Scan each paper with a scanner at a business centre, or a scanning app on your phone, in the format the upload box asks for (the photograph must be a JPEG). Check the size before you upload: on your phone, press and hold the file in your Files or Gallery app and open its details. If it is above 200 kilobytes, scan it again in black and white or at a lower quality, or ask the business centre to save it under 200 kilobytes. A page that is clear at 200 kilobytes is enough.

What runs at the same time. Stage 6: find your computer with a webcam now.

Next. Stage 3, the day your scans are ready.

Stage 3. Make your account and fill the application

Back to the short stages

Do. Follow steps 1 to 6 of "The steps to apply" above. In short: "Apply Now", "Register Now", your email, password, first name, last name and mobile number; activate from your email; come back to the scheme's page through your bookmark or by pressing "Apply Now", never by step 4's link on the page (it opens last year's closed page); then your details, your NIN, your school details and your uploads, each opened again after it goes in.

Where. https://candidate.scholastica.ng/schemes/NNPCLTDSNEPCo26.

What you need. Your own email and phone number; every scan from Stage 2.

On a phone or a computer. The site's help page, for trouble uploading: "ensure you are not using a mobile device that is not enabled for such activity, try to use a different browser software, log out of your account and log back in." If your phone will not upload, use a computer. On a business centre's computer, log out and remove your details when you finish: the scheme asks applicants to "ensure they log out from their account before shutting down the computer system, and delete their personal details from public computers."

What not to add. References: "References will not be considered or reviewed as part of your application." Extra information on your education, activities or work may be added only where the form asks: "as long as it includes and is restricted to the requested information."

Cost and time. Free. One sitting.

You are done when every field is filled and every scan opens as the right paper.

Stage 4. Submit, and confirm it went in

Back to the short stages

Do.

1. Read everything once more: "Recheck application information to avoid errors".
2. Go to "Active Scholarships", choose the NNPC/SNEPCo scheme, and press "Apply Now".
3. Look for the message on screen and the email. Then open "My account" and check "My application".

Cost and time. Free. Minutes. By the end of 29 November 2026.

You are done when you have the email that you applied and the scheme shows under "My application".

If you made a mistake after submitting. Your details can be changed only by email: "To edit your profile details after applying for a scholarship, send an email to scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com from the email account you used to create your Scholastica profile stating your case." Title it plainly, for example "Correction of details on Scholastica profile".

Who to call. The scheme's line, 0700 123 7880, from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday; the site's lines, 07088609791 and 07011962033, from 8 am to 5 pm, Monday to Friday; and scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com.

Next. Stage 5, the same day.

Stage 5. Get your profile signed by your Head of Department, and upload it

Back to the short stages

Why. The scheme checks you with it: "Upload a scanned copy of the signed profile, this would be used for verification."

Do.

1. Sign in again and download your profile. The site's help page: "After application for a scholarship scheme, return to the overview page of your profile to download your profile form."
2. Print it and take it to your Head of Department to sign. The site's help page also names an "academic referee" as a signer, but the scheme's own steps say your Head of Department: take it to your Head of Department.
3. Scan the signed page under 200 kilobytes, sign in, and upload it.

What you need. A printer, your Head of Department's signature, a scanner or scanning app.

Cost and time. Free, apart from printing. As long as your HOD takes: find out this week which days your HOD is in the office, and go early.

You are done when the signed scan is uploaded and shows in your account.

If it goes wrong. If your Head of Department is away, ask the departmental office when the Head of Department returns, and go that day. Whether the signed profile may come after 30 November: we cannot tell yet; get it in before the close.

What the signed profile looks like: we cannot tell yet. It shows only after you have applied, behind your sign-in.

Stage 6. Get a computer with a webcam ready

Back to the short stages

Why. If you are shortlisted, the test runs only on a computer with a webcam, and no page says how much notice the invitation gives.

Do.

1. Find a laptop or desktop with a webcam that you can use for a whole sitting: your own, a relative's, a friend's or a lecturer's.
2. Open Talview's page (https://pages.talview.com/securebrowser/) and check the computer against it: Windows 11 or 10 (Talview's page also says PowerShell "must be installed and accessible"), or macOS Tahoe 26, Sequoia 15 or Sonoma 14; 2 GB of free disk space; 2 GB of free memory (on Windows, press Ctrl, Shift and Esc together, open Performance, then Memory: Available must show 2 GB or more); an Intel i3, an M1 or better.
3. Plan the room: good light on your face, quiet, and a steady connection.

Cost. Free if you borrow one.

You are done when you know which computer you will use and it meets Talview's list.

Stage 7. Wait for the shortlist

Back to the short stages

What happens. After the close, the scheme reads the applications. "Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for the proctored computer-based test." "Examination details will be communicated to shortlisted candidates only." No page gives a date.

What you do. Check your email every day, the spam folder too, and keep your phone on. Keep studying: your next CGPA counts if you are picked (Stage 10).

How long. No page gives a time.

When the test is held and how much notice comes: we cannot tell yet.

If no invitation comes. Only shortlisted applicants hear. The scheme takes 200-level students only and does not take a second application ("I have applied before; can I apply again this year? No."), so apply to other schemes for the years ahead too.

Stage 8. Sit the test

Back to the short stages

Do.

1. When the invitation comes, read it whole: the date, your scheduled time, your username and password.
2. Before the day, install Talview's secure browser from Talview's page (https://pages.talview.com/securebrowser/), open it once, and allow it your camera, microphone and screen. Turn off spelling correction and typing assistance. Close every other application, including chat and screen-recording tools, VPNs and "AI Tools".
3. When the setup is done, close the secure browser and open your test link again to start the test: "Close Talview Secure Browser, then click your test link again to start the test."
4. On the day: a room with good light, your face square to the webcam, your ID card scanned to upload before you start. Sign in with exactly what was sent to you, inside your scheduled time.
5. After the pretest checks, read the instructions and press "Next" at the bottom right to start the questions.
6. Before you close anything, wait until every upload reaches 100% and "Test Completed Successfully" shows.

If it goes wrong. The scheme's questions and answers on the test:

• The page keeps loading: "All settings take a couple of minutes to load. Slow loading is as a result of internet connection."
• The webcam cannot capture your ID or face: better light, sit properly in front of it.
• The audio check hangs: check the computer for a hardware fault.
• Logged out before you could submit: check your connection; wait for 100% and "Test Completed Successfully".
• "Not currently scheduled": you are outside your scheduled time, or you have already completed the test.

What is in the test: we cannot tell yet. No page of the scheme prints past questions; the "past questions" sold online are not from the scheme.

Cost. Free; your data.

Stage 9. The check of your records

Back to the short stages

What happens. "Only the top 10 candidates will be shortlisted from each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory for academic verification prior to scholarship offer. Candidates with falsified results will be disqualified." The page does not say what the top ten are ranked by.

What you do. Answer every email from the scheme on the day it comes, and send exactly what it asks. If the scheme asks for your bank details, send them before the date it gives and check every digit: the site's help page says payments have been missed where bank details came late or were wrong.

If it goes wrong. A false or altered paper ends the application "at any level of the scholarship process".

Stage 10. The award and your first payment

Back to the short stages

What happens. "Only candidates that have successfully satisfied the above criteria will be contacted to receive the scholarship award." "We process these applications, and the outcome is communicated directly to the successful candidates." Your award letter sets your conditions: "Recipients are expected to maintain high academic/ethical standards and other conditions outlined in the scholarship award letter."

Your first payment. The site's help page: "After the scholarship board has made their selection of Awardees, you will be contacted by the bank or the consultant of the Scholarship board once your payment is ready". If others are paid and you are not, the usual cause is that your current academic status could not be confirmed; call the site's lines, and, if your status is valid, write to the scheme at scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com stating your case.

When the first payment comes: we cannot tell yet.

How much it is. No page of the scheme prints the amount.

You have arrived when the first payment of the grant is in your account.

After your first payment: keep it every session

The rules. To keep it, "you must: be a full-time student making satisfactory progress in your degree program; maintain an average minimum of 3.5 CGPA; and meet the campus's student conduct standards." "All scholars must maintain a minimum of 3.5 CGPA per session". The grant is paid for every year of your programme "as long as you do not repeat any year".

What ends it. A CGPA below 3.5 in a session. Changing course ("the award cannot be transferred to another course of study") or university. Leaving your course or being dismissed for academic reasons. It cannot be deferred, and once lost it is not given back: "Can I be re-awarded my scholarship if I lose it for any reason? No."

If you must interrupt or repeat a year. "Each student's case will however be considered carefully, looking at each individual's circumstance." Write to the scheme at scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com as soon as you know, and say what has happened.

A year away from your university (an industrial training year, for one) is paid "once this is confirmed, and it does not extend outside the normal duration of the programme".

When it ends. "The scholarship award expires upon completion of the course for which the award was made."

Part 4. What can stop you

• Paying anybody to apply. The scheme charges no fee at any stage and has no agents. A website or person that asks for money for the application is not the scheme.
• A private university, a polytechnic or a college of education. Public universities only, federal or state.
• Not 200 level, or part time. Second year, full time only.
• A CGPA under 3.5 after 100 level.
• Another oil and gas scholarship.
• Applying twice, or a second account. The scheme does not take a second application from anyone who has applied before, and a second account on the site stops you receiving any award.
• A name that differs across your papers, with no affidavit or certificate uploaded.
• Files over 200 kilobytes, or a phone that will not upload.
• Step 4's link on the page, which opens last year's closed page. Use your bookmark or "Apply Now".
• The letter of identification and the signed profile left to the last week.
• No computer with a webcam when the test invitation comes.
• An altered result. Disqualified at any stage.
• Wrong bank details after the test.

Part 5. If you already did some of this

• You have your papers but no account. Go to Stage 3.
• You made an account last year, or for another scheme on Scholastica. Use that account; do not make a second one ("with one account you can apply for all scholarships"). If you applied to this scheme before, you cannot apply again.
• You have submitted but not uploaded your signed profile. Go to Stage 5 today.
• You submitted without your NIN. Get it (Stage 2, step 7) and add it to your application before the close.
• You submitted with a mistake. Email scholastica@dragnet-solutions.com from your account's email (Stage 4).
• You have been invited to the test. Go to Stage 8.

Part 6. The time, stage by stage

• Stage 1, the fit check: one evening.
• Stage 2, the papers: the letter of identification within 24 to 48 hours of approval in Osun, no time printed elsewhere; JAMB reprints in minutes; NIN enrolment at a NIMC centre, then 1 to 5 working days for the number; the rest one or two evenings.
• Stage 3, the account and the form: one sitting.
• Stage 4, submitting: minutes, by the end of 29 November 2026.
• Stage 5, the signed profile: as long as your Head of Department takes; plan it this week.
• Stage 6, the computer: at the same time as Stages 2 to 5.
• Stage 7, the shortlist: no page gives a time.
• Stage 8, the test: inside your scheduled time.
• Stage 9, the check: no page gives a time.
• Stage 10, the award and first payment: no page gives a time.

From tonight to a complete application is about three weeks if you start this week. What follows the close is not dated by any page.

Part 7. The money, all of it

Before the result, for you alone: if you hold every paper already, nothing but printing, scanning and data. If you must reprint both JAMB papers: ₦2,500, or ₦2,900 in colour, plus your state's fee for the letter of identification.

What the grant pays. A yearly grant from 200 level to the end of your degree, while you keep its conditions. No page of the scheme prints the amount.

Part 8. If the call has closed: the closed plan

After 30 November 2026 the 2026 call is closed, and nothing can be added to it. When the next call opens, how long it stays open and when it closes: no page says yet.

The scheme takes students "Currently in their second year", once. So the closed plan depends on where you stand.

In 100 level now. The next call may come in your 200 level. Get ready now, so that whenever it opens you apply in the first week.

In 200 level now, and you missed this call. The scheme takes second-year students only. If the next call opens while you are still in 200 level, apply; if it opens after you have moved to 300 level, this scheme is closed to you, and your work goes to other schemes.

In the app: the button reads Tell me when it opens. Tap it, and Rekoja tells you when the scheme's page posts the next call.

Do these stages now, in this order.

Stage C1. Check your fit for the next call

Back to the short stages

Do. Read Part 1, "Check that you can start". Write down the session you will be in 200 level. Aim your CGPA at 3.5 or above from your first semester: the result after 100 level is the one the scheme reads.

You are done when you know the session you will be in 200 level and what your CGPA after 100 level is or will be.

Stage C2. Get the papers that wait on other people

Back to the short stages

Do. Get your letter of identification from your state of origin (Stage 2, step 1) and your NIN (Stage 2, step 7) now. Reprint any lost JAMB paper (Stage 2, step 2). Check the names on every paper match, and swear an affidavit if they do not (Stage 2, step 8).

You are done when every paper is in your hands and scanned under 200 kilobytes.

Stage C3. Find your computer with a webcam

Back to the short stages

Do. Stage 6, now.

Stage C4. Watch for the call

Back to the short stages

Do. Check the application site, https://candidate.scholastica.ng/, where the 2025 and 2026 calls were posted, and Shell Nigeria's page on its scholarships (https://www.shell.com.ng/sustainability/communities/education-programmes.html). When a new call opens, read its dates and come back to "From today". Ignore any post that asks for money or prints an amount the page does not.

You are done when the call opens and you go back to Stage 3 with every paper in your hands.

"Application for NNPC / SNEPCo scholarship is free." (the scheme's own page)