Australian envoy seeks educational partnership with PTDF

Oritsegbubemi Omatseyin

Lagos — The Australian New Commissioner Designate and Head of Nigerian Mission, Ms. Leilani Bin-Juda recently paid a courtesy visit to the Executive Secretary, of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Mr. Ahmed Galadima Aminu to seek educational partnership between the Fund and the Australian High Commission.

The Envoy informed the Executive Secretary that her country had the requisite technology and knowledge of the different specializations in oil and gas and other disciplines that can support PTDF’s mandate of human capital development.

The Executive Secretary commended the envoy’s initiative to seek collaboration with PTDF and assured them of the Fund’s readiness to partners with any institution that is poised to collaborate with the Fund in the delivery of its mandate.

He said PTDF is the lead agency of government statutorily empowered to build capacity in various science and technology-related disciplines that are relevant to the Nigerian oil and gas industry adding that the fund has effectively discharged its responsibility for the past 23years.

He noted various strides recorded by PTDF in areas of Education, Research, and Development of oil and gas-related institutions and promised to fast-track further engagement with Australia through its High Commission in Nigeria to find means of expanding the frontiers of research and development as well as human capital development for the Nigerian oil and gas industry in line with the mandate of the Fund.