Chevron Spends N5.6bn On Scholarship

As a major aspect of its corporate social obligation, neighborhood unit of American oil monster, Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) spent a regal aggregate of N5.6 billion on scholarship somewhere around 2009 and 2015, for 15,356 youthful Nigerians, its General Manager, Policy Government and Public Affairs, Mr Deji Haastrup, has revealed. 

For 2015 alone, a sum of N186 million was spent on different scholarship conspires on

2, 406 undergraduate recipients, while over N250 million was given to Regional Development Committees (RDCs) – a bunch of groups near its operations.

Haastrup, who talked in Asaba, Delta State capital amid CNL's eleventh Edition of the National Art Exhibition Competition Prize/Award giving function additionally said more than 14, 000 undergraduates have profited from the Agbami Medical and Engineering plan supported by its backup, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited. 

Haastrup said Chevron's social speculation cut crosswise over training, wellbeing and financial strengthening, including that instruction is the way to disentangling the capability of young people and building up their ability for societal pertinence. 

He included that interest in training covers group and national grants honors to Nigerian Undergraduates in Secondary and tertiary institutions, infrastructural bolster including classroom, libraries research centers and sponsorship of rivalries and projects to inspire undergraduates and support their certainty. 

Delta State Deputy Governor, Kingsley Otuaro, recognized the NNPC/Chevron joint wander in starting up the innovative capability of the undergraduates/young people, taking note of that this will make them reason pushed and keep them far from getting to be oil office vandals and taking part in different indecencies. 

Otuaro clarified that organization has indicated responsibility to improvement of its host groups through Regional Development Council (RDC) course of action where assets reliably conveyed by the organization have empowered groups to set up arrangements for their own particular advancement.