Oil
giant, Exxon Mobil has donated equipment worth 50
million naira to six tertiary institutions in the country through
its Universities
Partnership Programme (UPP).
The donated items includes: analytical equipment,
digital cameras, mosquitoes nets for field trips and the sum of 5.777 million
naira to each of the universities.
The beneficiaries
include: University of Akwa Ibom, University of Anambra State, University
of Jos and Federal University of Technology, Akure. Others are University
of Ilorin and Federal University of Petroleum Resources,
Effurun, Delta.
According to the
General Manager, Operations (Technical) of Exxon, Mr Michael Udoh, the
company has since the inception of the program in 2007, provided support worth
over one billion naira.
”Since we started
the University Partnering Programme in 2007, we have donated vehicles,
Geo-sciences equipment to 14 universities, to facilitate Geological fieldwork
training and analysis for students.
He said the program
is aimed at ensuring that Nigeria stands on equal competitive footing with the
best universities in the world in the study of Geo-sciences.
”We commenced this
partnership Eight years ago in the area of Geo-sciences education in our
collective and determined quest to help advance the quality of education in
Nigeria to internationally competitive levels.
“To date, we have
committed over N900m to the UPP and our long term goal is to ensure that every
public university in Nigeria offering Geo-sciences benefits from the programme.
Commending the
company, the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC),
Julius Okojie, asked other companies to emulate the good examples of the
company, as the government cannot adequately fund education on its own.
The beneficiaries also promised to ensure that the equipment
are properly used and maintained.
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