ExxonMobil, Kaduna Partner to Improve Secondary Education

Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria (Offshore East) Limited (EEPNL), an ExxonMobil affiliate company in Nigeria recently donated 5,000 personal tablet computers to public secondary school students in Kaduna State, under the state’s Smart Education Initiative, as part of efforts to improve students’ access to education.

The tablets are equipped with school curriculum, e-textbooks, as well as past questions and solutions for national examinations, which will assist students by providing them with instant access to multiple sources of knowledge.

According to the General Manager, Public and Government Affairs for ExxonMobil affiliates in Nigeria, Paul Arinze, “this initiative fits into our social investment strategy, which supports improvement and capacity enhancement of institutions at all levels in Nigeria’s education sector. It also mirrors similar educational programmes supported by ExxonMobil affiliates across Nigeria.

“In the past two decades, ExxonMobil affiliates in Nigeria have invested over N8 billion in Nigeria’s education system. We hope this investment in smart education systems for high school students will have a carry-over effect, leading to improved performance of the students at further levels of education, and an improved quality of working class Nigerians in Kaduna State,” Arinze said.

In his remarks, the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS), represented by the Manager Public Affairs, Ahmed Aminu, described the project as a worthy initiative and urged the students to make the most of the opportunity to embrace digital education.

The state Governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai commended NAPIMS, Esso and other co-venturers on USAN Deep Water Field for their contribution to the state’s smart education initiative, emphasising the value of the project in overcoming some of the current challenges to education in the state.