The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board and Nigeria LNG Limited have launched a $9m professorial chair endowment programme for six Nigerian universities to develop commercially viable solutions to industry challenges, strengthen local research capacity and promote technological innovation.
Under the Nigerian Content Research and Development Professorial Chair Endowment Programme, each university will receive $1.5m to establish a specialised professorial chair focused on agreed industry research priorities.
The initiative is being implemented in partnership with the NCDMB under the supervision of its Planning, Research and Statistics Directorate.
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NLNG, Adeleye Falade, who disclosed this at the kick-off ceremony in Port Harcourt on Tuesday, described the programme as an investment in Nigeria’s capacity to translate academic knowledge into practical solutions.
Falade said the beneficiary institutions were the University of Ibadan, Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, Modibbo Adama University, Yola, Aliko Dangote University of Science and
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