NNPC/MPN Invests N160m On Graduate Training Programme

The NNPC and Mobil Producing Nigeria Joint Venture (NNPC/MPN) has committed N160 million to implementing a Graduate Assistance Programme (GAP), according to an official.

Mrs Gloria Essien- Danner, the Executive Director / General Manager Public and Government Affairs, made the information known during the graduation/closing and presentation of awards ceremony in Uyo on Monday.

Essien-Danner said that for the past three years, the NNPC/MPN joint venture also trained 200 graduates from the state to make them employable in organisations.

“The GAP was designed to improve employability and entrepreneurial capacity of unemployed graduates in Akwa Ibom by providing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) skills and enterprise development know-how as tools for achieving the objectives.

“Having met and indeed surpassed its objectives, this graduation ceremony draws the curtain on this laudable programme which has benefited 450 trainees,’’ Essien-Danner said.

She charged the trainees to make the best use of the opportunities in life and congratulated them for their success.

In his remark, Gov. Godswill Akpabio, thanked NNPC/MPN for the investment in the programme and urged the beneficiaries not to disappoint the organisation and the nation.

The governor, who was represented by the Chief of Staff, Government House, Mr Godwin Afanghide, charged other multinational organisations to emulate the group.

The highpoint of the ceremony was the award of certificates to the trainees and gift of a laptop and N100,000 each to the first five trainees in the four batches by NNPC/MPN with Akwa Ibom government.

The company also gave N160,000 to nurses in the state school of nursing and N270,000 to cadets from Maritime Academy, Oron.