NEPL/ND Western OML 34JV conducts scholarship test for indigent students
No fewer than 280 Indigent students took part in a scholarship aptitude test organised by the Operators of Oil Mining Licence (OML 34), Nigeria Exploration Production Limited/NDWestern Asset Management Team (AMT) Joint Venture, on Saturday, in Warri Delta state.
The aptitude test which took place at the College of Education, Warri, and supervised by the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), is part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) aimed at promoting education and learning among It’s host communities.
Addressing newsmen on the exercise, NEPL/NDWestern Asset Management Team (AMT) JV’s Chief Operating Officer (COO), Mr. Karo Ovraity, said that WAEC was engaged to conduct the scholarship examination to ensure transparency and credibility of the exercise and to assure the communities of fairness.
Ovrity, who was represented by the Company’s Community Liaison Officer (CLO), Mr. James Ekeanyanwu, disclosed that the students who sat for the examination were selected from their host communities based on oil production quota and pipeline bearing.
According to him “We sent messages to our host communities and based on facilities in your area, we select the students say three, four students in some communities. We gave the communities chairmen the free hand to select the students so ours is to conduct the examination.
“WAEC is doing the conduct of the examination, our is just the administrative work. It is WAEC that will release the results so there will be no issues of manipulation. We think WAEC is more established to conduct the examination”
He said that the exercise was a backlog of 2020/2021 and 2021/2022, editions that were postponed due to global coronavirus pandemic.
Ekeanyanwu said that the scholarship examination results would be out within one month of the examination, expressing optimism that WAEC would be diligent and transparent in coming out with the overall beneficiaries of the scholarship.
He said that the scholarship examination had been an annual event of NEPL/NDWestern Asset Management Team (AMT) JV but was disrupted by COVID-19 which led to the postponement.
Ekeanyanwu, however enjoined the students to be hardworking and take their academic pursuits seriously saying that the scholarship was designed to help students and their parents overcome economic challenges by helping them pay their children school fees.
NEPL/NDWestern OML34 JV, have been involved in communities development projects across its 35 host communities in Delta state that has made the it enjoy a peaceful operations in the area.
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