Tag: Igo Weli

NCDMB, Shell JV Partners Deepen CSR, Donate Engineering Studio, ICT Hub to FUTO

Precious Ibekwe

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), with its joint venture (JV) partners, on Thursday unveiled world-class engineering design studios and an information and communication technology (ICT) hub at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO). Platforms Africa reports that the facilities were conceived and donated in furtherance of the Nigerian Content Human Capacity Development (HCD) programme which had focused lately on institutional strengthening, equipping universities and revamping select technical and vocational schools across the country, in a bid to develop competent technical…

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184 NNPC, Shell Cradle-To-Career Beneficiaries Move To Varsity

Abibat Babalola

How scores of secondary school student-beneficiaries moved to SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years   About 184 beneficiaries of NNPC/Shell Cradle-to-Career scholarship for secondary school students have been migrated to the SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years. Platforms Africa reports that Shell’s Head of Corporate Relations for Nigeria, Igo Weli, said that the beneficiaries are all from the company’s areas of operations in the Niger Delta. “These beneficiaries are among the 708 youths from the Niger Delta who have benefited from the…

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SPDC JV Opens Animation Academy for Niger Delta Youths

Efe Wellington

ENERGY company, The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC), operator of the SPDC joint venture, has opened an animation academy in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, for practical training of youths in 3D animation, look development and visual effects. “The academy is primed to support in closing identified gaps in knowledge and skills that will enable Niger Delta youths to participate fully in the new opportunities that are now available in digital technology,” SPDC’s Director and Country Head, Corporate Relations, Igo Weli, said at the inauguration of the academy…

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Nigeria’s Oil Royalty, Taxes From Shell Crumble by $3.7bn in One Year

ADEOLA YUSUF

Shell: No plan to exit Nigeria, and real reason we paid $4.6bn royalty in 2019 but $900m in 2020 Nigeria, Africa’s biggest crude oil exporter, has suffered a crash of $3.7 billion on taxes and royalties it received from Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN) in just one year. Platforms Africa reports that the figures of transactions and operations expressly published by the oil major in its Briefing notes, also showed a bearish business between 2019 and 2020. In 2019, a whooping $4.6 billion was, according to the Briefing Notes, paid…

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