According to
the oil exploration and production firm, the move was a boost to the local
content initiative of the Nigerian government through the initiative, which would
also provide the requisite training to both the students and lecturers of the
Geophysics, Applied Physics and Petroleum Engineering departments of the
school.
In a
statement, the firm stated: “This is done in an attempt
to make Nigerian university graduates industry-ready and reduce the cost of
training and retraining after graduation particularly in the face of dwindling
oil price. In the private university category, Covenant University will be the
second beneficiary of this type of support / strategic collaboration with the
oil and gas industry after Wesley University of Science and Technology, Ondo
State.”
Tectono Business Review gathered
that more than 20 federal and state universities across the six geopolitical
zones of the country had benefited from similar donation.
This is a fat lie. Why do nigerians like to take glory for what they have not done. Opendtect software License is free for all higher institutions. The dutch companies that owns it gives it to schools free of charge all over the world.You just need to go to their website and fill the form. My school uses the software and we got it straight from company. We have been renewing our licenses ever since. My friend schooling abroad told me to inform my HOD to download the form from the website and that how we got the licenses without any nigerian company. The owner of the company is paul de groot, is my friend on linkedin you can mail him to confirm.This company is just lying that they are donating what they don't have. I hope they have not been collecting money from innocent school lecturers. Please, don't fall victim. I have a friend in Wesley and they said, they don't have a workstation talk more of having the said Seismic Software this danvic company said they donated. He said they just came to there school one time like that and collected money from the student to teach them how to use the software. If they have 1 million dollars to buy software, why will they be collecting money from student to teach them? If the company wants to sponsor any university, they should donate physical cash, buy workstations for them or sponsor their field trip like Shell, Mobil,Chevron etc.Everything about the software is free on the owners' website. Infact there is free video for you to watch and train yourself. If i have the no of the MD of this company, i will like to tell him repent from his lies. Any school that want the free license should visit this Link as proof for free Academic Licenses. (you will even see free training video for the software there). http://www.opendtect.org/index.php/products/free-products/universities
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