Developing Science and Technology: Town and Gown synergize
By Eunice
A team of four officials from Shell Petroleum Development Company Limited led by Professor Oluyinka Ogunsanya visited the University on Tuesday, October 12, 2010.
According to the team leader, the purpose of the visit, was to contribute the Company’s quota to the advancement of research and to create awareness of its graduate programme among the students.
On behalf of Shell Petroleum, Professor Ogunsanya presented 205 current books of different titles covering Electrical/Electronics and Chemical Engineering with the hope of adding to the resources of the library and thereby enriching research in the University.
Receiving the books on behalf of the University, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Aize Obayan, noted that the University has grown by leaps and bounds and would like to see the two organizations collaborate to raise a new generation of leaders.
The Shell team also met top final year Engineering students to brief them on the Company’s graduate awareness programme and on how they could be recruited into the Company. They were advised to keep up the moral values which had been inculcated in them by the University because Nigeria is in dire need of leaders with integrity.
