CMU Signs MOUs With Nigerian Universities
By: , November 24, 2018
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Vice President of Nigeria Mr. Yemi Osinbajo (seated – centre) joins the celebration of the signing of Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) between the Caribbean Maritime University and three Nigerian Universities on Wednesday November 21 at the Nigeria Maritime University. President of the Caribbean Maritime University Professor Fritz Pinnock (seated – left) and Vice Chancellor of the Nigeria Maritime University (NMU) Mrs. O.M. Etebu (seated – right) display their copies of the MOU following the signing of the agreement. The occasion was also used to sign agreements between CMU and University of Lagos (UNILAG) and also Ondo State University of Science and Technology. Also participating in the signing ceremony were (standing from left to right) Vice Chancellor of UNILAG, Professor Ogundipe, Deputy President of CMU Professor Ibrahim Ajagunna, Acting High Commissioner of Jamaica, Ambassador John Clarke Doctoral Student of CMU, Mr. Balfour Peart and Pro Chancellor and Chairman of Council at NMU Chief Timipre Sylva.The Full Story
The Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) has signed Memoranda of Understanding with three Nigerian universities that will enhance cooperation between the local institution and Nigeria’s educational sector. The institutions are Nigeria Maritime University (NMU), University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Ondo State University of Science and Technology.
The agreements were signed in Nigeria on Wednesday (November 21) by CMU President, Professor Fritz Pinnock, and Deputy President, Professor Ibrahim Ajagunna and witnessed by Vice President of Nigeria Mr. Yemi Osinbajo, following talks with faculty members.
Under the arrangements, CMU will assist the institutions in the development and expansion of maritime, engineering and logistics programmes and facilitate faculty and student exchanges and joint research and publications.
Speaking in an interview with JIS News, Professor Pinnock said that the MoUs will help to strengthen the relationship between the countries.
“CMU has developed the capacity to provide cutting-edge tuition and consultancy services over its nearly 40 years of existence and is now determined to share its expertise with the African community by initiating new programmes of South-South cooperation,” he explained.
Professor Pinnock said the initiative will also help to overcome the deficiencies of the past in which African and Caribbean communities were perceived as consumers rather than producers of technological innovation.
“CMU is an international university and Africa, South America and China are at the top of our radar. We are in the education export business and the future is about global linkages. We are innovators and the world is our oyster,” he said.
The three-man delegation from CMU to Nigeria also included doctoral candidate, Balfour Peart.