Mobil To Execute More Projects In Bonny, Next Year

The management of Mobil
Producing Nigeria Unlimited has disclosed its readiness to maintain collaboration with the Bonny Kingdom Development Committee with the  view to funding specific projects in the kingdom next year.
The Manager, Field public and Government Affairs, Mr Adeyemo Fukuyejo said thus at the grand final of the 2015 NNPC/MPN sponsored quiz competition for secondary schools on the island.
Mr Fakuyejo  said that the joint venture has also awarded over 500 undergraduate scholarships to Nigerian students studying in various tertiary instructions within the country.
He expressed the hope that, the competition will go a long way in enhancing the standard of education on the island.
“The quiz competition as conceived is aimed at enhancing the students’ reading culture as well as widening their horizons in general knowledge.
“The programme will continue to provide a platform for interaction and promotion of healthy competition amongst the students and help address a critical education gap that was exposed during the recently held Pan Bonny Conference”, he said.
Also speaking, the Permanent Secretary, Rivers State Scholar Board, Senibo Dagogo Hart urged Mobil to include scholarship in its programme for Bonny indigenes, especially those that excel in the competition.
Hart said that the Rivers State Scholarship Board is willing to partner with the company in this regard and advised the students to see the annual quiz competition as an opportunity to excel in their studies.
Earlier, the Executive Director of Recreasport Consult Nigeria Dr Jude J. Benstowe  said that the competition solely sponsored by NNPC/MPN was to encourage reading from the students, thereby bringing out the best potentials in them, which in turn will contribute positively to the development of education in Bonny.
Benstowe who said that the company is achieving its aim in the island also urged other multinationals on the island to complement mobils’ effort to move the kingdom forward.
He said that eight secondary schools in the island participated in the competition this year, adding that the preliminaries were in group rounds where all participating schools contested against one another.
In the end of the competition; Lucile Education Centre, Bonny emerged first with 22 points, Kings/Queens School came second with 12 points, while Ibitamuno Secondary School came third.