Platform Petroleum Limited, an
indigenous oil and gas exploration and production company today, Wednesday June
28, 2017 handed over an ultra-modern building to the Geology Department of the
University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The event had Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu as Special guest.
He was joined by other distinguished
guests like Chief (Barr.) Dumo Lulu-Briggs, Chairman of Platform Petroleum, Dr.
ABC Orjiako, Chairman of SEPLAT, Professor O. Sylvester Adegoke, Dr. Bolaji
Ogundare, Managing Director, Newcross and HRM King Dr. Edmund M. Daukoru amongst
others.
The edifice
named Austin Avuru Building was built and donated to the department in honour
of Mr. Austin Avuru, first Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Platform Petroleum
Limited and current CEO, SEPLAT Petroleum Development Company Plc who graduated
from the department in 1980.
A statement signed by Mr. Amaechi
Moshe C. I., Ag. GMD Platform Petroleum Holdings Limited, said that the
facility “which is the first CSRinitiative by Platform Petroleum Limited
outside of its Umutu, Delta State, operation site came out of the desire of the
company to support Mr. Avuru’s desire to reduce the huge infrastructural
deficit at his alma mater.”
He noted that things had gotten so
bad at the Department of Geology to the extent that it was about to lose its
academic accreditation.
The new building, according to the
statement, is larger and more conducive than the old departmental building and
will provide office space for lecturers as well as laboratories and lecture
halls for students.
The gesture by the company is a
reiteration of Platform Petroleum Limited’s commitment to creating value for
the larger good of the society and the company is excited that the provision of
this building will enhance quality of education for the staff and students of
the Department of Geology.
Vice Chancellor of the University,
Prof. Benjamin Chukwuma Ozumba thanked the company for the supportand
congratulated Austin Avuru for being a worthy ambassador of the institution. He
assured his guests that the university will justify the resources invested in
the new building. He also enjoined other alumni to emulate Avuru and Platform
Petroleum in helping to enhance the learning environment.
Also speaking, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu an
UNN alumnus, commended Platform Petroleum Limited for investing in the future
of the Country. The Honourable minister congratulated the UNN community and the
Geology Department, in particular, and advised that the facility should be put
to judicious use.
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