The Agbami parties, comprising Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited (a Chevron Company), NNPC Upstream Investment Management Services Limited (NUIMS), Famfa Oil Limited; Equinor Nigeria Energy Limited and Prime 127 Nigeria Limited, have donated a model classroom block to Special Education Centre, Agbor, Delta State.
Director, Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, Michelle Pflueger, in her address at the inauguration of the facility thanked the state government and the people for their support and partnership, underscoring the social investment initiatives of the partners across Nigeria.
“Beyond our core business, the improvement of the quality of life of the people is an important value to the Agbami parties.
“From Lagos to Ondo, Delta, Bayelsa, and Kaduna, Maiduguri to Port Harcourt, the Agbami parties have continued to add value through our social investment initiatives.
“Several other projects in the areas of education, health and economic development are either ongoing or completed across the country. These include science laboratories, model classroom blocks and chest clinics, among others.
“Today, the parties are adding even more with this model Cblock of cassroom that we are donating to the Special Needs School. Please join me in applauding the Agbami parties.
“We have, in addition, instituted specialised educational scholarship programmes in support of manpower development in Nigeria through targeted support for medical, nursing, laboratory sciences and engineering students. And we are happy that many of our students in Delta State have benefited from this scholarship scheme.
Speaking to the students, Pflueger encouraged them to make the best of the opportunity available to acquire sound education to emerge as upright and highly competent professionals who will make Nigeria proud at all times.
Responding to the donation, principal of the school, Francisca Ezehi, who appreciated the donors, disclosed that the facility has six well-furnished classrooms, science laboratory, library, sickbay, toilets and well-spaced walkway, as well as a big, sound-proof generating set, a borehole, a water system and ceiling fans, among others.
She called on the state government and other well-meaning Nigerians to assist the school in some of the challenges confronting the school, which include porous security as a result of low perimetre fence and absence of security personnel, inadequate funding and teaching staff, lack of vehicles for mobility, among others.
Chief Upstream Investment Officer, NUIMS, Bala Wunti and the representative of the state government, Augustine Oghoro, who is the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, urged the school management to make judicious use of the facility, just as he urged other stakeholders in the private sectors to support development of their host communities.
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