Shell Trains 60 Young Artists

Fri, May 8, 2015 | By publisher


Energy Briefs

Osagie Okunbor, MD, SPDC
Osagie Okunbor, MD, SPDC

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THE Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, has enrolled more than 60 young artists from the Niger Delta in the Prof. Bruce Onobrakpeya Training Centre, Agbarha-Otor, Delta State, for training in arts and crafts. The two-weeks training is a partnership between the SPDC Joint Venture and the Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation.

The programme will focus on metal construction, ceramics (pottery) and leather crafts after which the participants will be provided entrepreneurial opportunities and mentoring under Onobrakpeya, a renowned Nigerian printmaker, painter and sculptor. In his message to the participants, Igo Weli, SPDC, sustainable development and community relations manager, said, “Through the training tagged: ‘Arts of the Delta,’ our commitment to achieving sustainable development through youth empowerment in the Niger Delta is being realised.”

Weli enjoined the participants to give their full attention to the programme, describing it as an opportunity to acquire success nuggets from the iconic Onobrakpeya Foundation. The participants, made up of academically-trained and non-academically-trained artists, were drawn from Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Delta, Imo, and Rivers states.

— May 18, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT

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