Oil Companies: Imo Govt fetes infrastructural support for secondary schools
The Imo State Government has urged oil companies operating in the state to increase the implementation of their corporate social responsibilities(CSR) by initiating and building infrastructures and other developmental facilities in secondary schools of their host communities.
Governor Hope Uzodinma spoke through one of his aides, Johncliff Nwadike, the commissioner for secondary education, at the NNPC/SEPLAT Pearls Quiz Finals competition among secondary schools which NNPC/SEPLAT Energy organised for secondary schools in the state held in Owerri, Friday.
Uzodinma said that education has not only become the engine of growth for nations but also a veritable mechanism to develop and harness the intellectual capabilities of children at very tender ages for human development.
He stated that the state government believed that the quiz competition would assist in sharpening the intellect of the And that the competition would also encourage healthy academic competition as well as promotion of academic excellence in schools.
He implored Seplat Energy and NNPC to go beyond organising quiz competitions to donate books, provide infrastructures and other incentives to schools in the state
