A Chevron company, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited and four other co-venturers in the Agbami field have donated a hybrid library to the Central Epie Secondary School, Opolo in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital.
The four co-venturers are National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), Famfa Oil Limited, Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited and Statoil Nigeria Limited.
Performing the commissioning of the project in Yenagoa, the Permanent Secretary of the Bayelsa State Ministry of Education, Alice Atuwo lamented that the absence of libraries is affecting teaching and learning in schools across the state.
Atuwo who’s represented the state Commissioner for Education, Markson Fefegha stated noted that the state government is aware of the sad development hence the resort to building libraries and ICT centres in boarding schools that are about to be opened.
She urged Chevron not to limit its assistance to just the beneficiary school but extend such helping hand to other schools and also intervene in other areas of education for the benefit of the state and students.
In an address by the director of Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, Jeffrey Ewing who was represented by Michael Kabi, described the provision of hybrid libraries as “one of the programmes in our social investment plan aimed at improving the reading, research and information technology culture among students.”
Mena Ogor, who spoke on behalf of NAPIMS, stated that the project was due to the deliberate effort of the NNPC and its co-venturers to intervene in human capacity development, which she said was a critical sector of the economy.
The chairman of Famfa Oil Limited, Modupe Alakija, who was represented by Obinna Iheonu, said the company was working with other co-venturers in the Agbami Field in ensuring qualitative education as key to development in the country and precursor to improved standard of living.
Representatives of Statoil and Petrobas, Nkechi Ezenwa, and Meg Irozunu also agreed that the provision of the hybrid library would boost the standard of education in the school, particularly e-learning, which was technologically driven.
Earlier, the principal of Central Epie Secondary School, Matthias Banigo, expressed appreciation to the oil servicing firms for the provision of the library and also appealed to Bayelsa State government to provide security and desks, renovate dilapidated classroom blocks and sand fill parts of the school compound.
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