Milton Babajide Macaulay, PhD Approximately Wins Two Decades Of Scholarship

Milton Babajide Macaulay, PhD approximately wins two decades of scholarship and proudly shares experience.

Following his previous post regarding the London Metropolitan University (LMU) postgraduate scholarship which was his first international scholarship, a number of people have come to ask him how many scholarships he had actually won altogether.

In the last 19 years (since 2004),He had won a total of 13 scholarships/fellowships which have collectively helped progress his life to this point. 

They include: 

1. Iju Scholarship Initiative, Lagos, Nigeria  worth N20,000 (2004). 

2. Total/EPNL Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Nigeria worth N150,000 annually for 4 years; N600,000 (2006-2010).

3. Christ The Redeemer's Undergraduate Bursary from the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Nigeria worth N20,000 for 2 years; N40,000 (2007 and 2009).

4. Federal Government of Nigeria Undergraduate Scholarship worth N150,000 (2009/2010).

5. London Metropolitan University (LMU) Postgraduate Scholarship, UK, worth £15,000 (i.e., N9,000,000) (2012).

6. Commonwealth Shared Scholarship for a Master's degree at the University of Greenwich, UK, worth £30,000 (i.e., N18,000,0000); Accepted this over LMU (2012). 

7. Commonwealth PhD Scholarship for a PhD degree at the University of Manchester, UK, worth £100,000 (i.e., N60,000,000) (2015).

8. Nigerian University of Technology and Management (NUTM) Scholarship Program (NSP) worth $35,000 (i.e., N21,000,000) (2021).

9. Orange Knowledge Programme (OKP) Scholarship for a 2-week short course at the IHE Water Institute, Delft, The Netherlands, worth €3,000 (i.e. N1,500,000) (2021).

10. Carrington Youth Fellowship Initiative (CYFI), Lagos, Nigeria, for a social impact project under the Civil Liberties team, worth up to $5,000 (i.e., N3,000,000) (2021).

11. Selected among 16 participants globally for a 4-month Biogas Solutions training delivered by the Biogas Research Centre (BRC), Linkoping University, Sweden; worth not established, but could be estimated at $5,000 (i.e., N3,000,000) (2021).

12. Open Africa Power (OAP) Fellowship, a 7-month training focused on Sustainable Power in Africa; financial worth not revealed, but could be estimated at $8,000 (i.e., N4,800,000) (2022). 

13. Hyperion Scholarship for a virtual Executive MBA program at the Quantic School of Business and Technology, Washington, USA; worth $9,600 (i.e., N5,760,000) (2022). 

Total worth: N126,870,000 (approximately N127 Million).

Unlike some new scholars who create a YouTube channel two months after traveling abroad to guide people on scholarships, Milton Babajide Macaulay spent 6 years replicating and testing the efficiency of  methods before finally creating Illumania  (www.illumania.org).

Milton Babajide Macaulay found the niche, patiently built a personal brand around it and today, he is one of the most trusted scholarship plugs across Africa.

Build competence and credibility first, before trying to be a coach or trainer, Milton Babajide Macaulay remarks.

MySchoolNews reporting.