NLNG Completes UNIMAID Lab

Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has completed one of its flagship Corporate Social Responsibility programmes, the University Support Programme (USP), with the commissioning of the sixth $2 million engineering laboratory at the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID). The company has spent $12 million since 2014 on constructing, renovating and equipping six world class engineering laboratories in six universities in each geo-political zone of the country. Engineering laboratories already commissioned under the programme include the Ahmadu Bello University Multi-user Engineering Laboratory, University of Ibadan Engineering Complex, NLNG Centre for Gas, Refining and Petrochemical Engineering at University of Port Harcourt, the NLNG Engineering Research Centre at the University of Ilorin, and the NLNG/University of Nigeria Engineering Laboratories. Present among dignitaries at the well-attended ceremony werethe Executive Governor of Borno State, KashimShettima, represented by the Deputy Governor Alhaji Usman MammanDurkwa; Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Mustapha Baba Shehuri; representatives of the Minister of Education, Minister of Science and Technology, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), and the Shehu of Borno Kingdom; and members of the UNIMAID University Governing Council.