Oil and Gas
Chevron spends $1bn annually on Nigerian content dev.
Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL, on Monday said it spends an average of over $1billion to support the Nigerian content development through employment and contract opportunities to Nigerians.
The General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs, Mr. Esimaje Brikinn, who disclosed this at a one-day capacity building programme organised in conjunction with the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Federal Capital Territory, FCT Council, in Abuja, said CNL gives priority to human investments that deliver long-term transformative.
The training covered like topics like the “Benefits of Social Media and Internet Influence on Media Development”, “Understanding Cyber Laws and Safety of Journalists in Nigeria”, and “Media in Developing Countries: Nigeria as Case Study.”
Brikinn, who was represented by the General Manager, Corporate Communications in the company, Mr. Victor Anyaegbudike, added that CNL “contribute to the sustainable development of communities where we operate.”
He explained that this is being done through the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, a community-led participatory partnership model for community engagement and sustainable development pioneered by CNL in 2005.
“Since inception of the GMoU, CNL has contributed billions of naira to the Regional Development Committees, RDCs that represent the communities in its area of operations to execute hundreds of projects in the communities through a governance model that ensures transparency and accountability.
“Currently, we are working with the relevant government and community stakeholders to transit to the Host Community Development Trusts under the Petroleum Industry Act.
“Also, through Chevron’s Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, PIND, we are impacting hundreds of lives in the Niger Delta and supporting economic empowerment in the region,” he stressed.
Besides oil exploration and production, he added that CNL “is the highest contributor of high-quality domestic gas in Nigeria since 2015.”
He promised that the CNL would continue to partner with the media for the development of the society, stressing the need for capacity building of the media practitioners to enhance their capacity to perform their duties.
Earlier while welcoming participants to the training, the chairman of the NUJ FCT Council, Comrade Osaretin Osadebamwen, explained that the one-day capacity training programme intended to boost our capacities on the use of the media to spur national growth and development.
“This training has been long in coming. It is in continued fulfilment of our desire to explore all opportunities for capacity training programmes to our members. We may be a large pool of journalists, training, such as this, reduces the large number by our figure here in this hall.
“It underscores our desire to continue to improve and sharpen our skills under the fresh start mandate designed to equip us further in our daily tasks – understanding the influence of the new media in our duty to society,” he stressed.
Osadebamwen pointed out that journalists’ role as agenda setting agents for national development is and would never be lost to the media.
Resource persons at the capacity training are Prof. Abiodun Adeniyi of Baze University, Abuja, who covered “Media in Developing Countries: Nigeria as Case Study”; Mr. Judd Okafor (“Benefits of Social Media and Internet Influence on Media Development”) and Mr. Adeyemi Adesomoju (“Understanding Cyber Laws and Safety of Journalists in Nigeria”).
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