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  • Six arrested Britons to be deported – Immigration boss

    Six arrested Britons to be deported – Immigration boss

    The six Britons arrested last Saturday for violating Nigerian Immigration Laws are to be deported the Comptroller- General of Immigrations, Martins Kure Abeshi  has said.

    Abeshi, who made the revelation Tuesday before the House of Representatives Committee on Interior headed by Hon. Jagaba Adams Jagaba said the expatriates have breached Nigeria’s immigration laws and would therefore be deported.

    Part VIII, Sections 56 (1-7); 58; 59; and 60 (1–5) of the Immigration Act, 2015 which provides for the immigration offences and penalties, stipulates a term of imprisonment of 10 years or fine of N2 million.

    While reacting to questions in the Britons from Hon. Sunday Katung, representing Zango Kataf Federal Constituency in Kaduna State, the NIS boss said;

    “I just arrived from abroad Monday and met this case. As I’m talking, yesterday in the evening, the company that employed those expatriates, after my discussion with them they are to be responsible for their air ticket. As I’m talking now I’m sure they have been flown out.”

    While putting the case in perspective, Immigration boss said:

    “One company employed them. They were in the services of that company, but they travelled out, when they were coming back, another employer gave them visa to come, which is against immigration law, it is against the law of the land. So their first employer complained about these expatiates, so it is an offence they have committed and we have ordered their deportation.

    “When we conduct our operation and discover that someone who is not a Nigerian is living in this country illegally, he will be repatriated. That is on our own part, they have to go.

    “There is another angle to it. If he is a worker, working in a company and we discover that he does not have papers to stay in this country, he has committed an offense against the state, the company that the expatriate is working will give us money; buy ticket or whatever is their responsibility.

    “Before anybody takes an appointment here as an expatriate, the Organization will write to immigration that they are taking immigration responsibility for that expatriate.

    “If that expatriate commits any offence against the company and they want to remove him, that company must provide ticket so that the person is removed from this country.”

    Recall that the Nigeria Immigration Service, (NIS), had arrested six Britons following on alleged breach of Nigeria laws especially sections of the Immigration Act, 2015 regulating expatriate quota.

    The expatriates were working for GMT Energy Resources, contractors to EXXONMOBIL, a US International Oil Company (IOC) in Nigeria with headquarters in Houston, Texas. At the time of the arrest of the six expatriates they were engaged by GMT in a project for the IOC.

  • ExxonMobil gives N100m projects to Erha communities

    ExxonMobil gives N100m projects to Erha communities

    ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration & Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL), in production sharing partnership with Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its co-venturers on the Erha North Phase II Development (EPC2), Shell Nigeria Exploration & Production Company (SNEPCo), has built and donated community assistance projects worth over N100 million in six communities in Lagos, Ondo and Rivers states.

    The projects include a community town hall and water purification plant in Onne, Rivers State; Water purification plants for Igbologun 1 & 2, Igboeseyore and Igbosu communities in Lagos State and the reconstruction of a community market and water purification plant for Igbo-Egunrin community in Ondo State.

    Speaking at the hand-over of the projects to the community in Ondo State, the Project Executive, EEPNL, Mr. John Unietis, who was represented on the occasion by the Technical Manager, EPC2, EEPNL, Dr. Tunji Obawole, said the projects signified “yet another important step we have taken as an organisation to improve living conditions in communities across Nigeria through investment in such infrastructure as clean and safe drinking water, as well as the promotion of economic well-being of these communities through various support schemes and initiatives.”

    He said the water purification plant “is meant to improve the overall well-being of the community through the provision of clean, potable water thereby reducing the incidence of water-borne diseases in the community, along with their negative consequences.” He added that the project was based on the Meckow Aquapur technology, which meant the plants could be powered by solar energy; could purify over 24,000 litres of water daily and is also durable.

    Obawole further said EEPNL undertook the reconstruction of the Igbo-Egunrin community market to improve economic activity in the community, adding that as “the major market in the Ilumeje axis of Ilaje local government area, we believe the reconstructed market will help improve the economic well-being of the communities it serves through the provision of this enhanced operating environment.”

    Ondo State Governor, Dr Segun Mimiko, who was represented at the event by the Chairperson of Ondo State Micro-Credit Agency, Princess Banke Sutton, expressed appreciation to ExxonMobil for taking the lead to come to the community’s assistance. He also commended the company for supporting the  governor’s vision of building conducive market spaces for traders.

    She said her agency would  offer loans to traders to improve their businesses.

    The traditional ruler of Igbo-Egunrin, Oba Philip Kalejaiye, thanked ExxonMobil for the projects, noting that they would uplift the conditions of the community as well as improve economic activity through the reconstructed market.

    Erha North Phase 2 Development is an extension of the Erha sub-sea system and infrastructure. It is part of the Erha floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

  • NGO, ExxonMobil calls for legislation to curb VVF

    The Executive Director of an Uyo-based non-governmental organisation (NGO),  Community Partners for Development (CPD), Dr Nsekpong Udoh, working with the support of ExxonMobil,  has called for legislation to forestall incidence of Visco-Vaginal Fistula (VVF) disease.

    Udoh made the call in Uyo while speaking at the awareness seminar for representatives of women groups in Akwa Ibom recently.

    Dr. Nsekpong said that apart from creating awareness on the disease, government should ensure that child marriages were discouraged through enactment of law to punish offenders.

    She lamented that a lot of people living with VVF have been stigmatized and some divorced due to their health condition.

    “For long term solution, sensitization and legislation is needed because if there is a correct legislation about early marriages, teenage pregnancy would stop.

    “When a child is pregnant, they make sure such child goes through proper care and legislation in place,” she said.

    She decried that much had not been done by government in creating awareness on the disease as it was being done in HIV and other illnesses.

    She tasked the women groups to take the sensitization campaign to the rural areas, market places and even the church to check the control of the disease.

    Udoh noted that a lot of women in the rural areas were still suffering from VVF ignorantly without going to the hospital for treatment.

    The director said that her NGO had taken the sensitisation to all the three senatorial districts in Akwa Ibom to create awareness and prevent incidence of VVF in the state.

    She appealed to the state government to expand the VVF centre in Mbribit Itam near Uyo, adding that the centre had been overstretched being the only centre in the state.

    The State Director of Reproductive Health, Mrs Comfort Akpan, said that the public health directorate was committed to reducing the number of girls and women suffering from this VVF.

    Akpan, who was represented by Mrs Grace Okon, Family Planning Officer, State Ministry of Health, said that sensitization and awareness creation was the key to reducing the disease.

    She lamented statistics had shown that Nigeria had a higher burden of VVF than other countries of the world.

    She advised Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) to refer first pregnancy to the hospital for proper ante natal care to prevent the occurrence of the VVF.

    The representative of the Public and Government Affairs Department, ExxonMobil, Mr Eyo Bassey, commended the initiative of the NGO for organising the awareness seminar.

    Bassey said that as a good corporate citizen, ExxonMobil, would always support initiatives that would bring succour to the masses especially children and women on our society.

     

  • ExxonMobil advises youths

    ExxonMobil advises youths

    ExxonMobil Producing Company Limited has warned youths of Onne in Eleme Local Government Area of Rivers State against smearing the name of the NNPC/MPC Joint Venture by using the bus donated to them for political campaigns.

    The Manager, Field, Public and Government Affairs, Adeyemi Fakayejo, spoke yesterday after delivering a 16-seater bus to youths at Mobil operation base in Oil and Gas Free Zone Onne, Eleme.

    He said:  “This vehicle is meant to assist in community mobilisation, to ensure that whatever they do in the community is given visibility. This vehicle is not for political campaign, it shall never be used to campaign for any party.

    “This bus is not also meant for the exclusive use of the youth chairman, it should not be converted into his personal vehicle, but should be judiciously used for the purpose for which it was given and be handed over to his successor at the end of his tenure in office.

    “The bus is the property of the youth and should be seen and used for official duties, hence the inscription: ‘For Official Use’ only, on the bus.”

  • Oil will remain in demand for next 100 years, says ExxonMobil

    Oil will remain in demand for next 100 years, says ExxonMobil

    Tips Nigeria, China, India, others to lead global energy demand

    Statistics presented by oil giant, ExxonMobil, yesterday indicated that oil will still sustain the global energy need for 100 years.

    Its General Manager, Deep Water Operations, Oladotun Isiaka, broke the news in his presentation on ‘2015 Energy Outlook series’ in Abuja.

    He said: “The franking technology now avails us the opportunity to know it is there. Based on this and the amount of energy we use as at today and what we are projecting, what we use over 25 to 40 years, this tells us that we have 100 years of oil to support energy needs.”

    According to him, countries outside the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), including China, India, and Nigeria, would lead global demand for energy in the next 25 years.

    ExxonMobil said supply glut in the oil sector would continue into the foreseeable future as supply outstrips demand in many countries.

    Despite data showing that global reserves have risen to six trillion barrels, ExxonMobil said this would last for only a hundred years based on today’s energy consumption and projected future demands.

    He noted that population increase, improved standard of living and growth in the middle class, especially in India, China and other key growth areas of the world, will continue to drive energy demands.

    Isiaka noted that “energy demand trends from 2010 to 2040 are expected to vary significantly around the world, as countries move along very different trajectories in terms of key demand drivers including population, demographics, economic growth and income levels.”

    He pointed out however that most of the growth in energy demand would come from countries outside the OECD.

    On the world’s oil reserve, he said: “In 1981, it was estimated to be below 2 trillion barrels, then slightly above 2 trillion barrels by 1990, and as of 2013, it was estimated to be six trillion barrels.

    “It is not that the oil just got deposited there. It has been there for millions of years, but it is the advancement in technology that has now availed us the opportunity to know it is there and to be able to bring it to the tank.

    “Ultimately, what you want is for the oil to go to the tank. And if you do not have the capacity to bring to the tank, then it is going to stay there forever.

    “So, based on this, if you convert this into the amount of energy that we use as of today and what we are projecting to be used in the next 25 years, this tells us that we have a hundred years of oil to support energy use in the future.”

  • Erha North boosts ExxonMobil’s oil output by 65,000bpd

    Erha North boosts ExxonMobil’s oil output by 65,000bpd

    Exxon Mobil Corporation’s subsidiary, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited, the operator of Erha deepwater development including the Erha field and Erha North satellite field, said it has started oil production Erha North Phase 2 project offshore Nigeria ahead of schedule and below budget.

    The Erha North Phase 2 project, according to the company, is estimated to develop an additional 165 million barrels from the currently producing Erha North field and peak production from the expansion is currently estimated at 65,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd), which will increase total Erha North field production to approximately 90,000 barrels per day.

    The Erha fields (Erha field and Erha North satellite field) are located in oil mining lease (OML) 133, formerly oil prospecting lease (OPL) 209. Before the coming on stream of the Erha North Phase 2, total production from the fields was 140,000 barrels a day. With the estimated 65,000 barrels of oil per day (bpd) from Erha North Phase 2, the total production from Erha development will be about 205,000bpd.

  • ExxonMobil women woo female students

    ExxonMobil women woo female students

    Women professionals in ExxonMobil Nigeria are looking to swell their ranks in the company.

    They have taken their campaign to universities to encourage female students in the geosciences and engineering departments to pursue careers in oil and gas.

    The programme called, WIN University Outreach, will focus on wooing female undergraduates to pursue careers in ExxonMobil and achieving success while at it.

    The initiative, which kicked off at the University of Ibadan last week, is a follow up to another programme, “Introduce a girl to science and engineering”, targeted at secondary school female pupils.

    Mrs Toyin Sarumi, President of the ExxonMobil Women Interest Network (WIN), which is pushing the campaign, said in an interview that the women have started their crusade with the 17 universities where ExxonMobil has its intervention programme, the University Assistance Programme (UAP).

    Mrs Sarumi, a reservoir engineer, said members of the group would share their success stories with the girls so they can aspire to work in the energy sector.

    “We will present ExxonMobil as a company; who we are, what we do; and encourage them to take up careers in oil and gas.  When girls take these courses they do not pursue a career because they don’t think it is possible to be successful and have a balanced life.  I have had a career of two decades and I have been able to joggle my career with motherhood and being a wife,” she said.

    Vice President of the group, Mrs Jumoke Akinpelu, added that beyond the career counseling event, members would be available to mentor the students as they advance in their studies and careers.

    “Our strategy here is to sell success to them.  Our goal is to mentor them to let them know what they need to succeed in Mobil.  WE will tell them they can get into ExxonMobil with 2.1.

    “A small percentage goes out to practice; it is because they do not have role models.  We will be following up; we will take their emails so we can ask them how they are doing,” she said.

    The universities to be visited in the first phase of the campaign include: Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt; Osun State University, Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun; University of Lagos, Akoka; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; University of Port Harcourt; University of Calabar; and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

    Others are: “University of Benin; Delta State University, Abraka; Akwa Ibom State University; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Enugu State University of Science and Technology; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Anambra State University, Uli; and the American University, Yola.

     

  • ExxonMobil, NB, others for SERAs awards

    TruContact CSR Nigeria, organisers of the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) awards, known as The SERAs, has got 47 entries.

    They were from ExxonMobil, Nigerian Breweries, Lafarge, Total, Cornerstone Insurance, Etisalat, BATN, Airtel, DHL, Nigerian Stock Exchange, FCMB, Promasidor, First Bank, among others.

    The awards described as Nigeria’s top CSR and sustainability honour entries is in its ninth year. The awards process is designed to integrate principles and framework of the Global compact, global reporting Initiative and ISO 26000.

    The SERAs is reputed to be the major promoter and force behind galvanising businesses across various sectors and industries in Nigeria to imbibe the ethos of CSR and sustainability in Nigeria.

    The theme of the 2015 awards is: Building partnerships for a sustainable future; business leadership as a catalyst for development. This seeks to highlight the lessons learned from Nigeria’s inability to completely attain the millennium development goals targets and building on the lessons of the MDG’s to begin a move towards attaining the sustainability development goals (SDG’s), and also promoting the vital roles that cooperation and partnerships will play in efforts to achieve the SDG’s.

    All is set for the commencement of verification and facility visit to projects and locations entered by the organisations. The SERA involves the production of a yearly Nigeria Social Enterprise Report that documents the CSR and sustainability interventions of corporate organisations.

    Meanwhile, the organisers have released a call for entry for the Tunmise Adekunle Awards for CSR reporting, a category introduced in 2009, to promote media excellence in reporting CSR and sustainability in Nigeria.

    Entries for this category close on September 21.

    The awards is billed to hold on November 14 at 6p.m. at Shell Hall, MUSON Centre.

  • ExxonMobil experts ‘lecture’ in 17 varsities

    ExxonMobil experts ‘lecture’ in 17 varsities

    The launch of ExxonMobil Lecture Series was greeted with enthusiasm by lecturers and students at the University of Ibadan last Friday.

    The series, being implemented under the University Assistance Programme (UAP), an initiative of ExxonMobil affiliate, Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL), would hold in 17 schools that have benefited from the programme.

    Since 2008, the UAP has been intervening in the Geosciences department of the 17 universities – providing them with workstations and other equipment for laboratories and ICT units, organising training for lecturers, and funding field trips.

    General Manger, Exploration, EEPNL, Mr Andrew Ejayeriese, said at the launch held in the conference room of the Faculty of Science, UI, that the Lecture Series is expected to further bridge the gap between university training and industry practices.

    “Under the Lecture Series, senior geosciences professionals from ExxonMobil Upstream companies will be presenting lectures at selected Nigerian universities on a pro bono basis, sharing their wealth of experience and depth of technical knowledge with both students and academic staff of these universities,” he said.

    Ejayeriese, who was represented by Mr Gilbert Odior, the Geosciences Coordinator, said that 24 lectures would be delivered at each university during a three-day workshop.

    Some of the 24 sub-topics under the theme, “Understanding the Upstream Oil and Gas Business”, included: “ExxonMobil Company Overview”; “Understanding the Oil and Gas Business”; “Sedimentation Concepts and Structural Styles;” and “Petroleum Economics and Economic Evaluations.”

    He said the University of Ibadan was chosen to flag-off the series because of its age and achievements in producing professionals who have made their marks in the labour market.

    Responding to the initiative, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof Isaac Adewole, represented by the Dean, Faculty of Science, Prof Abiodun Onilude, said the lecture series would build the capacity of both academics and students and urged them to imbibe whatever they were taught.

    He also praised ExxonMobil for its investment in the UAP, valued at about N2 billion across all the universities and thanked the company for investing 60 per cent of the intervention in UI.

    He noted that the university has reciprocated the gesture by rising in the ranking of the best universities in Africa.

    Adewole however appealed to the company to invest in other departments in the faculty like Chemistry and Microbiology, which both have areas that deal with geosciences.

    “Through your STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) programme, you have improved science and technology.  But there are other departments in the faculty that need help for instance, Chemistry and Microbiology,” he said.

    On his part, the President, Nigerian Mining and Geosciences Society, Prof Gbenga Okunlola, praised ExxonMobil for its intervention in Geosciences education, which has led to the production of 12 geographical maps across the country by the various universities.

    Of the lot, Okunlola said UI produced three – with the fourth at 75 per cent completion.

    He urged the company not to relent on the funding but continue so that the geosciences training would continue to improve.

    “We want to appeal to you; you still need to do more in the Nigerian education system.  N2 billion is chicken feed compared to what you make.  Improve the chicken to cow meat.  I want to appreciate and tell you that NMGS is always proud of you,” he said.

    A student participant, Chinelo Oduche, who is studying for an MSc in Petroleum Geology and Sedimentology, said the series has helped to make classroom learning clearer.

    “It is a wonderful opportunity.  It will help us to understand the upstream/downstream  sectors well.  It will help us to sediment the knowledge.  Having professionals from the field coming to talk to us is making clearer what we learnt in the classroom,” she said.

    Other universities to benefit from the lecture series include: Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Port Harcourt; Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun; University of Lagos, Akoka; Federal University of Technology, Owerri; University of Port Harcourt; University of Calabar; and Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

    Others are: “University of Benin; Delta State University, Abraka; Akwa Ibom State University; University of Nigeria, Nsukka; Enugu State University of Science and Technology; Federal University of Technology, Akure; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; and the Anambra State University, Uli.

     

  • ExxonMobil, NB, others beat The SERAs’entry deadline

    TruContact CSR Nigeria, organisers of the yearly Nigeria CSR awards otherwise known as The SERAs have announced receiving   47 entries from participating organisations for the 2015 Awards.

    Entries were received from ExxonMobil, Nigerian Breweries, Lafarge, Total, Cornerstone Insurance, Etisalat, BATN, Airtel, DHL, Nigerian Stock Exchange, FCMB, Promasidor, First Bank amongst others

    The award that is Nigeria’s top CSR and sustainability honour enters in ninth year. The awards process is designed to integrate principles and framework of the Global compact, global reporting Initiative and ISO 26000.

    The SERAs is reputed to be the major promoter and force behind galvanising businesses across various sectors and industries in Nigeria to imbibe the ethos of CSR and sustainability in Nigeria.

    The theme of the 2015 awards is – Building partnerships for a sustainable future; business leadership as a catalyst for development. This seeks to highlight the lessons learned from Nigeria’s inability to completely attain the millennium development goals targets and building on the lessons of the MDG’s to begin a move towards attaining the sustainability development goals (SDG’s), and also promoting the vital roles that cooperation and partnerships will play in efforts to achieve the SDG’s.

    All is set for the commencement of verification and facility visit to projects and locations entered by the organisations. The SERA involves the production of an annual Nigeria Social Enterprise Report that documents the CSR and sustainability interventions of corporate organisations countrywide.

    Meanwhile, the organisers have released a call for entry for the Tunmise Adekunle Awards for CSR reporting, a category introduced in 2009 to promote media excellence in reporting CSR and sustainability in Nigeria. Entries for this category close on September 21.

    The awards ceremony is billed to hold on November 14 at 6p.m. at Shell Hall, MUSON Centre.