{"id":794,"date":"2026-06-30T07:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schoolnews.com.ng\/scholarship\/nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T07:39:10","slug":"nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schoolnews.com.ng\/scholarship\/nnpc-snepco-national-university-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC\/SNEPCo National University Scholarship: How to Apply"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nigeria"],"acf":{"host_country":"Nigeria (undergraduate) \/ United Kingdom (postgraduate)","host_school":"NNPC &amp; Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Co. 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