University Of Port Harcourt, Among 6 Nigerian Universities to Recieve N2 billion NLNG grant

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited on Yesterday Wednesday announced a donation of N2 billion ($12 million) to six federal universities from each of the six geo-political zones of Nigeria for further development of engineering education in the country.
The company also said that it has committed $1 million each to the training of Nigerians who are involved in the building of six of its new LNG ships in Korea.The financial grant was announced by the Managing Director of NLNG Limited, Babs Omotowa at a briefing in Abuja. The briefing had in attendance Vice-Chancellors of the recipient universities; University of Ibadan (UI), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), University of Maiduguri (Unimaid), University of Port Harcourt (Uniport), University of Ilorin (Unilorin) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria.Omotowa stated at the meeting that the NLNG will spend in each of the benefitting universities, N340 million ($2 million) for construction of modern engineering laboratories and installation of cutting-edge engineering laboratory equipment in line with the objectives of its newly approved Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for universities tagged, NLNG University Support Programme (USP).He explained that the six universities were selected based on their top positions within their geopolitical zones as well as by the rankings of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and other global bodies.