By Ozolua Uhakheme
Intercultural dialogue is key to the implementation of the 2030 agenda for sustainable development, the Managing Director, Total E and P Nigeria Limited, Mr. Mike Sangster, has said.
He stated that Total’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) means not just partnership, but also commitment, sustainability and an enduring culture of responsiveness to the needs of its stakeholders.
Sangster, who was represented by Total’s CSR Adviser Dr. Charles Ngeribara, spoke at the maiden edition of a two-day art painting competition titled: Palettes and Strokes 2019 at the National Museum, Onikan Lagos last week.
He said: “We partner government and other special agencies in the realisation of our CSR objectives. In this instance, we collaborated with the National Museum to implement an art competition for secondary schools in Lagos with the theme Social Media: My perspective.
“Today, we are really proud to see 40 talented secondary school pupils participate in this competition. The programme was divided into two stages. In the first stage, the students were tasked to express their understanding of the competition’s theme in their paintings. The second stage was the selection of the best paintings after an exhibition of all participants.”
Curator National Museum, Onikan, Lagos, Mrs.Omotayo Adeboye said the competition, which would be a yearly event, was organised to see how young people with their creative minds could put on canvass or cardboards through their brushes and paints the positive values that should be projected through social media. She noted that the choice of the competition exemplifies the power of artist to correct or influence his environment and the world through the art of painting.
No fewer than 40 pupils from 20 secondary schools in Lagos State freely expressed their minds on Social Media; My Perspective at the two-day painting competition titled Palettes and Strokes 2019 held at the National Museum, Onikan, Lagos.
The maiden contest organised by National Museum, in collaboration with Total E and P Nigeria Limited, saw Miss Olatokunbo Eniola of Queens College Lagos, emerged winner of first position in the senior category.
Emerald High School came second while Igbobi College, Fadeyi, Lagos came third. Chrisland College, Ejigbo, Idimu, Lagos and Honeyland School, Baruwa, Ipaja, Lagos emerged fourth and fifth position winners.
For the junior category, first position went to Igbogbi College, Morocco Road, Fadeyi, Yaba, Lagos, while Methodist Boys’ High School, Victoria Island, Lagos came second.
St. Joseph Secondary School, Agege, Lagos emerged third followed by Phiidel College, Isheri, Lagos and Queens College, Sabo, Yaba, Lagos as fourth and fifth position winners.
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