Seplat
Petroleum Development Company Limited, one of the foremost independent
oil and gas companies in Nigeria, operator of the NPDC/SEPLAT JV assets,
OML 4, 38 &41 has announced the commencement of another landmark
social programme, SEPLAT PEARLs Quiz, aimed at promoting academic
excellence in secondary schools in Edo and Delta States.
The
education initiative comes barely five months after the implementation
of the JV highly successful, sight restoration project, “Eye Can See”
programme. It is targeted at students in public and private secondary
schools in the company’s states of operation. .
This
worthy programme provided by Seplat and her joint venture partner, the
Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) is tagged Seplat PEARLs
Quiz competition and it is expected to stimulate healthy competition
among schools in the designated area, encourage learning and reward
outstanding academic performance.
The
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Seplat Petroleum
Development Company, Mr. Austin Avuru, said as a socially conscious
corporate citizen, NPDC/SEPLAT JV has continually demonstrated firm
commitment to a long term infrastructural development of her host
communities, as well as, to growing the human capital and intellectual
aptitude of the people in these areas.
He
explained that SEPLAT PEARLs QUIZ, stands for Promoting Exceptional and
Respectable Leaders, and that the company has committed significant
resources to meticulously craft this programme to rekindle the spirit of
academic excellence and healthy competition in private and public
schools in these states.
According
to Mr. Avuru “We have taken a very deliberate decision to target the
youth with this programme because young people represent the future of
any community, and indeed the nation; youth are very active and need to
be assisted to channel their energies on the right course. They also
need to be encouraged to embrace the spirit of scholarship and supported
to understand and appreciate the fact that there is good reward for
scholastic excellence.”
“We
are therefore, explicitly committed to facilitating the students and,
by extension their teachers, to realize their full potentials, making
them more competitive in an increasingly sophisticated global job
marketplace while also inspiring them to develop into well informed
future leaders.
The PEARLs Quiz programme will be implemented in collaboration with the Ministry of Education in the respective states.
Participation
for the programme has been made accessible to all secondary schools in
Edo and Delta states and the competition holds at the school level
along the line of the senatorial zones and ends at the states level to
determine the winners. The quiz contest comprises selected questions in
various subjects following approved school curricula. At the end of
the final stage, the first three top performing schools and the winning
students will be rewarded with various prizes.
The
first prize for the quiz programme is a brand new Toyota bus for the
school; various categories of scholarship and school accessories for
winning students. Other prizes include school accessories, computer
systems and cash reward for schools that make the final round and
capacity building workshop for the teachers.
The PEARLS Quiz programme kicks off with qualifying tests in October, 2012 and the competition runs for next two months.
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