A total of 2,948 applications were received from intending scholars across the region out of which 244 that graduated with a First Class degree or its equivalent made it to the next round..
Search for West Africa’s 2018 Rhodes scholars produced 24-year-old Nigeria’s medical doctor, Toluwalase Awoyemi and 20-year-old Ghanaian Statistician, Emmanuelle Dankwa, as winners, at the weekend and both join 93 other scholars from around the world to commence studies at the University of Oxfo
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