PTDF to domesticate its training and capacity building programmes

   Executive Secretary of Petroleum Technology Development Fund, PTDF, Dr Bello Gusau, says plans are underway to domesticate its training and capacity building programmes.

   According to him, the current scholarship arrangement which is focused on Overseas Scholarship Scheme, was no longer sustainable and therefore, needed to be reversed.
Gusau, who disclosed this in Abuja during an interactive session with Vice Chancellors of Federal Universities in Nigeria, discussed the new strategic agenda that will govern the training and capacity building programmes of the Fund.
  He explained that the bulk of the scholarship to be offered, going forward, would be for training in Nigerian universities.
   In his reaction, Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, Professor Abubakar  Rasheed welcomed the initiative by PTDF, which he said tallies with the vision to collectively reform post graduate training in Nigeria.