Shell Nigeria Gas (SNG) the downstream subsidiary of Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, as part of its community social responsibilities has commissioned new school facilities for the residents of Ewupe, Isorosi and Ijaliye communities in Ota, Ogun state.
The projects which includes new and upgraded blocks of classrooms, football field, toilets and water facilities were executed in Ebenezer African Church Primary School and African Church Community Secondary School in Ewupe within SNG’s operational area.
“We recognise education as the topmost need of the people of our neighbouring communities and what we have done is a progression of our longstanding support to these schools and to the communities,” the Managing Director of SNG, Mr. Toyin Adenuga, said during the commissioning.
He noted that the company is committed to bridging the gap between students in the rural public school, and those in private school.
According to Mr Adenuga, the investment in the two public schools as part of the broad social investment programme of the company.
The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Modupe Mujota, in remarks said: “This administration has never pretended to be benevolently buoyant enough to single-handedly underwrite the cost.
“This is why we have always beckoned on corporate concerns, public spirited individuals, and non-governmental organisations to team up with us in lifting the education sector to greater heights.”
Mrs Mujota who was represented by the Director of Secondary Education Ogun State, Mrs. Abosede Ogunleye added that “The cost of education is capital-intensive and that public-private partnership in education is a viable option to overcome the funding challenge.”
She charged the students to take full advantage of the ultramodern school infrastructure to “upscale their academic performance and competitive exploits”
