The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd and its partner, Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), donated a state-of-the-art Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Centre to the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State.
The 100-seater One-Storey building was built and equipped by the NNPC and SNEPCo Joint Venture to promote research, teaching and learning in the citadel.
Commissioning the project, the governor of Delta state, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa said the facility would go a long way in expanding the capacity of the students and staff of the university and enable them compete locally and globally.
The Governor, who was represented at the event by the state commissioner for science and technology, Jennifer Adesen-Efeviror applauded NNPC and SNEPCo for their intervention.
The governor the central idea is to create an ICT Centre that would contribute immensely to the economic significance and prudent application of facility to research, teaching and learning – a center that would catalyze innovations that would stand the university out among its peers.
The group general manager of NAPIMS, Mr. Bala Wunti described the project as a delight to NNPC. He noted that NNPC was committed to making significant impact in the lives of every Nigerian through the delivery of life enhancing projects as the ones being inaugurated.
“We are keen on touching lives in many positive ways and this intervention, like many others delivered through our partners, will go a long way in grooming Nigerian youths for the technological evolution in the world,” he said.
Wunti was represented by the deputy manager, external affairs, NAPIMS, Mrs. Edith Lawson. The NAPIMS boss said that the ICT Centre would help create a pool of IT savvy professionals whose skills would be of high necessity and demand globally.
The ICT centre is equipped with 100 computers with licensed software, a WIFI lounge, computer laboratories, conference rooms, a lecture hall, office spaces and equipment rooms. The facility also included smart interactive boards, and a 100KVA generator.
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