About 107 Ph.D holders and 200 MSc degree holders who were sponsored by the Bayelsa state government across various disciplines and universities globally have been absorbed into the state civil.
Seriake Dickson gave the approval to boost the state civil workforce those of medical doctors, pharmacists and public health specialists and other beneficiaries of the State Scholarship Scheme who studied professional courses considered critical to the ongoing efforts to develop the state.
A statement by the Special Adviser, Media Relations, Mr Fidelis Soriwei, on Sunday, quoted the Governor as having made declared automatic employment for 107 PhD holders and 200 MSC degree holders during a meeting with beneficiaries of the scheme in Yenagoa at the weekend.
The Governor told the ecstatic audience that the 107 Ph.D. holders would be deployed to the three state-owned universities - the Niger Delta University, University òf Africa and the Bayelsa Medical University - as lecturers.
He stated also that other products of the scheme who studied medicine and other professional courses at Master Degree level would be engaged by the state Government in the various medical facilities and the civil service respectively.
The beneficiaries of the scheme returned with PhDs and MSC in disciplines such as Electrical/Electronics Engineering, Agricultural Economics, Agric engineering, International relations, Pharmacy Practice, Public Health, Computing and Electronics System, Gas turbine engineering, Natural Resources Management, Environmental Law and Management, Statistics and others.
However, the Governor noted that the State Scholarship Scheme which was designed to send an army òf Bayelsa scholars to universities across the globe came with heavy sacrifice and cost to the government.