Total Exploration and Production Nigeria says it has concluded plans to train nine Nigerian lecturers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, as part of its efforts to build local capacity in the country’s oil and gas industry. He added that the MIT-ETT project was part of Total’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme done in conjunction with its partners. Azuike said the best nine lecturers would be selected from 250 shortlisted candidates from about 500 applications from various universities in the country. “For this specific season, we had almost 500 lecturers that applied globally and 250 were actually qualified and shortlisted to be at this last level. According to him, each of the shortlisted candidates will make two presentations of research work and teaching skills.

Source: Nigerian Tribune January 29, 2020 10:30 UTC