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Monday, July 24, 2017
Nigerian indigenous firm Platform Petroleum has donated an ‘ultra modern’ building to the Geology Department at the University of Nigeria. The building was recently inaugurated and handed over to the university by Platform.
The building was named the Austin Avuru Building and was built and donated to the department in honor of Austin Avuru, Platform’s first CEO who is now the current CEO of Seplat Petroleum Development Co. Plc. Avuru graduated from the department in 1980.
A statement by Amaechi Moshe C. I., Acting GMD, Platform Petroleum Holdings Ltd, said:“The facility which is the first CSR initiative by Platform Petroleum Limited outside of its Umutu, Delta State operation site came out of the desire of the company to support Avuru’s desire to reduce the huge infrastructural deficit at his alma mater.”
He went on to say, “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 is larger and more conducive to learning than the old departmental building and will provide office space for lecturers as well as laboratories and lecture halls for students.
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