{"id":199906,"date":"2025-06-10T19:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-russia-to-offer-500000-scholarships-to-international-students-including-nigerians\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T19:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T17:44:54","slug":"nigeria-russia-to-offer-500000-scholarships-to-international-students-including-nigerians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-russia-to-offer-500000-scholarships-to-international-students-including-nigerians\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Russia to Offer 500,000 Scholarships to International Students, Including Nigerians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">&#8220;The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will increase the number of international students in Russia to 500,000&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The government of Russia has promised to offer not less than 500,000 scholarships to international students, including Nigerians to study in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Andrey Podelyshev, disclosed this while briefing journalists on Monday night in Abuja, on the sidelines of the embassy&#8217;s preparation to commemorate Russia Day on 12 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The ambassador outlined&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506100437.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, will increase the number of international students in Russia to 500,000&#8230;&#8221; The government of Russia has promised to offer not less than 500,000 scholarships to international students, including Nigerians to study in the country. The Russian Ambassador to Nigeria, Andrey Podelyshev, disclosed this while briefing journalists on Monday night in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199907,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10381,4337,257,4687,393,6665,10280,1048,13604,254,6695],"class_list":["post-199906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-including","tag-international","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerians","tag-offer","tag-russia","tag-scholarships","tag-south-africa-today","tag-students"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}