First Deepwater Bags Entrepreneurship, Leadership Excellence Awards

Oil and gas company, First Deep water Discovery Group, has been honoured with Entrepreneurship and Leadership Excellence Award by the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA.

The recognition came at FUTA’s annual alumni luncheon and awards ceremony held in Lagos.

Receiving the award, Chairman of Deepwater Group, Mr. Babalola Babatunde, happy about the award said it would motivate and energise him to do better.

“I think I cannot quantify my passage in what FUTA has done in my life. So, it is expedient I replicate in good measure what the school has been able to do in my life,” he said.

Babatunde, a philanthropist and an alumnus of FUTA yearned for solid educational system through adequate investment.

He was unhappy about the level of decadence in the education sector, hence, urged alumni of various citadels of learning to support government investment in their respective alma mater to boost the sector for efficiency.

He commended the Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Adebiyi Daramola, for raising standards and quality but said that more could be achieved through collaboration by stakeholders.

He added that government was doing its best to reposition the institution but its effort could only be perfected through private support and commitment.

Other awardees at the included the Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Daramola, former Registrar of the University, Mrs. Eunice Oyebade, National President, FUTA Alumni Association, Mr. Akin Aina among others.