Total boss to tip MUK students on career pursuits

Nov 11, 2013

Hundreds of Makerere University students are set to achieve from a professional career guidance talk courtesy of the visiting senior vice-president of Total Africa and the Middle East, Momar Ngeur.

By Vision Reporter

Hundreds of Makerere University students are set to achieve from a professional career guidance talk courtesy of the visiting senior vice-president of Total Africa and the Middle East, Momar Ngeur.

Career guidance is a critical addition to the conventional knowledge acquired by college students; it takes a multiplicity of steps in preparing and equipping themselves to face the employment world out there, centering on meeting their dreams on what and how they seek to be in their professional lives.

Against that background, Ngeur will on Wednesday address students and staff on the general matters relating to career development and inspire them to continue believing in working in Africa to boost the continent’s development agenda. The address will be under the theme; ‘Why I believe in Africa’.

“Ngeur’s talk to students is in tandem with Total’s career management programme dealing with human capital development. Under the program, Total also identifies some graduates, trains and employs them across the globe where the firm has operations,” according to a press statement from Total Uganda.

Ngeur is a native West African and has spent most of his career at Total in both France and Africa. He has many years of experience in the energy business with vast knowledge about Africa, and he understands what the continent needs to develop. The Vice President will also attend the region’s transport convention taking place at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala.

One of the main areas to be tackled will be about transport accident mitigation measures.

Road transportation accidents still claim too many victims, especially young people, in Africa and the Middle East. Road safety is a core focus for Total, with 15 million tons of petroleum products transported each year by more than 6,400 trucks driving nearly 240 million kilometers.

As part of its comprehensive road transportation strategy and different stakeholder-centric programs to reduce accidents, Total is once again driving improvement efforts. The 4 day convention will host transporters from 15 countries in East and Southern Africa.

 

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