An announcement issued on Monday in Abuja by Ms Salamatu Baba, Public Relations authority of JICA Nigeria, said the recipients would likewise experience temporary job toward the finish of their project.
"This Initiative offers open doors for youthful and qualified African young people to learn at Master's courses in Japanese colleges as universal understudies furthermore encounter entry level positions at Japanese endeavors.
"This is keeping in mind the end goal to create powerful abilities and learning in different fields, with the point of adding to the advancement of ventures in Africa.
"This is in satisfaction of a guarantee made by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe amid the Fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development.
"Abe guaranteed a key five-year plan to give 1,000 African adolescents such expert's grant open doors," it said.
Baba said JICA got 1,946 applications from 50 African nations for the grant for the Japanese financial year affirmation 2016.
"In Nigeria, JICA got 196 applications that experienced the four-level thorough screening exercise out of which 29 candidates were effective.
"The members are relied upon to add to the advancement of Nigeria in a joint effort with the Japanese private segment on their arrival," the announcement said.
EmoticonEmoticon