The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
yesterday, promised to partner, with Bayero University Kano, BUK, in the
ongoing exploratory activities in the frontier basins across the country.
Group
Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr Maikanti Baru According to statement in
Abuja, Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mr. Maikanti Baru, stated this when
the Vice Chancellor of BUK, Prof. Muhammad Yahuza Bello, paid him a visit at
the Corporation’s headquarters. Baru said the Corporation would always identify
with the Ivory Towers because its work force was drawn from the universities.
“Your visit would open up opportunities for collaboration between NNPC and your
university and we are looking forward to receiving your inputs”, Baru noted. He
said while the Corporation was not keen on setting up a university, it had
nonetheless established the NNPC Learning Academy which trains high level
manpower for the oil and gas industry, adding that it offered short term high
level technical courses capable of enhancing the oil industry operations. Baru
said NNPC already had an established relationship with Petronas on shipping,
saying further collaborations with the company are underway. Also speaking,
Vice Chancellor of BUK, Professor Bello, said the university was in
collaboration with Petronas, as he called on other industry stakeholders to
join NNPC by showing interest in education. Bello noted that Petronas had
awarded Ph.D scholarship to 13 staff members of BUK in different areas of Civil
Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Petroleum Engineering, among others in
recent times. “Bayero University Kano has being given permission by the
National University Commission (NUC) to commence degree programmes in Petroleum
Engineering and Chemical Engineering. The students are in their fourth year now
and we believe that it would be a good idea for us to establish a relationship
with NNPC in a number of areas, in particular, we want to appeal to NNPC to
support BUK in implementing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) we signed
with Petronas’ University of Technology,” he noted.
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