Seplat Energy, a local oil company, has reaffirmed its dedication to its Joint Venture (JV) Entrepreneurship Fellowship Programme, which aims to enhance participants’ business management, social entrepreneurship, and leadership skills through specialized and focused capacity-building workshops.
At a celebration for the programme’s former recipients (Fellows), which started in 2019, the company pledged an additional N16.5 million in seed cash to the partners in the program, Conversation for Change. (C4C).
The business has trained and supported three batches of Fellows, totaling 55 young people, under the Seplat JV/C4C cooperation, according to Dr. Chioma Nwachuku, director of external affairs and sustainability at Seplat Energy.
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“Each beneficiary has shown resilience, creativity, and innovation throughout the yearly programme and has become our proof that we could truly make Nigeria better by investing in the youth population,” she said.
Delivering a lecture, themed: ‘Unleashing Nigeria’s Untapped Potential through Entrepreneurship and Sustainability’, a former Independent Non-Executive Director of Seplat Energy Plc and Scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford, Ms. Arunma Oteh, said the scheme was to build more capacity and further equip the entrepreneurs.
Story adapted from The Nation
