…Factors to training help, scholarship awards, and Guide Studying with Open Day to groom younger students
TotalEnergies has revealed how they’re grooming the subsequent technology of the Niger Delta elites. The corporate stated they don’t seem to be solely constructing vitality way forward for the world however unlocking the reservoir of the Niger Delta subsequent leaders.
They stated final week in Port Harcourt that the corporate is doing that by means of sustainable and strategic funding in training, colleges infrastructure, scholarship awards, extra-curicula actions corresponding to Guide Studying contests and Open Occasion days.
The corporate significantly stated: “We’re investing in training and youth growth to unlock the subsequent chapter of greatness”.
Olivier Casesolles, deputy managing director (DMD) Complete Energies Joint Enterprise Asset, stated the initiative of encouraging younger ones to learn, shouldn’t be merely about rising literary powerhouse and research of Literature however about nurturing minds able to empathy, creativity, and demanding pondering. Most observers stated the oil area was filled with concord, communalis, peace, assist for each other, and bonding. Now, they stated, most of these virtues have vanished and eplaced with violent tendencies and egocentric acquisition. Now, working to revive these virtues appears to be the target of most company social accountability initiatives of some oil companies within the area.
One in all such programmes is the Guide Studying and Open Occasion scheme by TotalEnergies which holds years on the headquarters in Trans-Amadi, Port Harcourt.
Casesolles selected the chance of the occasion to disclose the internal plans and targets of the occasion. It was the the 2025 Guide Studying and Open Day Occasion for Senior Secondary Faculties College students.
The DMD said that for over 60 years, TotalEnergies has been obsessed with lighting up minds and empowering future generations by means of training.
The corporate stated the scholarships offered by TotalEnergies has assisted hundreds of scholars to entry high quality training. And greater than 700 petroleum engineers have graduated from the Institute of Petroleum Research (IPS) within the College of Port Harcourt.
The DMD additionally said that lives of most executives right this moment and sooner or later depend upon the books they learn and the data they possess. He traced his personal life and success tales to an early publicity to studying.
The DMD additionally recognized different training help initiatives of TotalEnergies in Nigeria to incorporate the availability of photo voltaic lamps to college students to help their research, provision of classroom blocks, State-of-the-art laboratories and tools in colleges, and coaching of some college lecturers on the Massachusette Institute of Know-how in USA, a transfer to strengthen instructing methodology in Nigeria.
By supporting training, TotalEnergies says that they’ve nurtured and are nonetheless nurturing future leaders, innovators, and alter makers.
TotalEnergies emphasised that the ‘Guide Studying and Open Day Occasion’ has enhanced character, self-discipline, and private progress because it’s inception.
The TotalEnergies boss used the event to admonish all in attendance to pay shut consideration to the content material of the ‘Guide of the Yr’, the ‘Potter’s Wheel’ by Chukwuemeka Ike, to determine who’s the Potter, the Wheel, and the Clay, in order to learn from the connection piece of literature and man in his society.
He urged younger ones to interact with the books they learn as it’s a gateway to infinite potentialities, the passport to success and private {and professional} growth on this period of infinite distraction.
The DMD urged college students to be impressed by ‘The Potter’s Wheel.’
He additional assured that TotalEnergies is delighted to put money into training by supporting college students and youths to unlock the subsequent chapter of greatness.
Adesua Adebola, Normal Supervisor Nation Providers of TotalEnergies, stated the aim of the e-book studying contest was to empower college students. She charged them to take studying critically as she stated it’s the key that unlocks a profitable and brighter future.
She charged the scholars to learn day and night time to grow to be higher ready for what lies forward and stand an opportunity to rank among the many finest in any area of human endeavor on the worldwide stage.
Additionally, Azibaolalare Uzoma Wogu, Everlasting Secretary, Rivers State Ministry of Schooling, represented by Charles Gbaranwi, a deputy director within the Ministry, recommended TotalEnergies for his or her contributions to the expansion, growth, and success of training in Rivers State, expressing the Ministry’s steady readiness of the accomplice (TotalEnergies) of their efforts to help instructional growth within the State.
Woga assured TotalEnergies that college students and colleges in Rivers State weren’t threatened because the state present produced probably the most good faculty within the nation based on the rankings of the Nationwide Institute of Legislative Research (NILS) having emerged nationwide champion of it’s quiz for secondary colleges within the nation.
She described the ‘Guide Studying and Open Day Occasion’ as a testomony to the facility of books which serves to encourage, educate, and rework; and likewise reminded the scholars that their journey in life begins with studying of books.
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The Everlasting Secretary urged the scholars to marry their books, saying studying enriches lives, improves the mindset, and broadens horizons.
She suggested college students to learn good books, preserve healthful associates, and search the steering of their lecturers whereas at school as their lecturers function dad or mum throughout faculty hours.
She emphasised that stakeholders in training are essential, and referred to as on different corporations and multinationals within the State to comply with the footsteps of TotalEnergies.
Wogu emphasised the necessity for all these aspiring for a instructing place within the State to accumulate the requisite coaching and guarantee to register with the Academics Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) to make sure competence and rid the system of quackery.
Talking on the emergence of a public faculty because the winner of the occasion, the Everlasting Secretary said that it was a sign that public colleges within the state have come to remain and nonetheless possess a few of the finest attributes by way of manpower.
Talking on the necessity for steering within the alternative of a profession path, Adolphus Akwumakwuhie, a authorized practitioner and ‘Function Mannequin of the Day’, urged college students to reap the benefits of the morning interval which is the preparatory stage in life. He warned in opposition to dangerous affiliation, drug abuse, and different social vices incidental to youths, saying they result in a harmful future.
He admonished college students to take their selections concerning profession selections critically as a result of they now stand at threshold of the long run.
The Function Mannequin charged the scholars on the even handed use of time, stressing that their is time for every part. He famous that the time the scholars are in now could be an important of their lives.
Akwumakwuhie referred to as on mother and father and guardians to withstand the temptation of imposing a profession on their kids, saying it could result in an sad future.
The ‘Guide Studying’ train introduced collectively over 10 senior secondary colleges in Port Harcourt, together with Enitona Excessive Faculty, Immaculate Excessive Faculty, Mannequin Secondary Faculty GRA Port Harcourt, Redeemers School, and GCSS Borikiri, noticed Neighborhood Secondary Faculty (CSS) Okuru-Ama emerge as winner.
Talking on behalf of the scholars of CSS Okuru-Ama, Hellen Amakiri expressed gratitude to the organizers (TotalEnergies) for the initiative which she stated has outfitted her and different college students in attendance with very important data wanted to make the correct selections for a profitable future.
She additionally recommended TotalEnergies for a outstanding function within the oil, gasoline, and renewable vitality business and their dedication to sustainable vitality in Nigeria and the world.
Amakiri additional expressed gratitude to TotalEnergies for the chance given to her and her colleagues to take part within the ‘Guide Studying and Open Day Occasion’, saying it paved the best way for the emergence of her faculty because the winner of the 2025 version.
