Seplat boosts quality education in Edo, Delta

Seplat Petroleum Development Company has trained a total of 143 teachers, comprising of 100 secondary school teachers and 43 Chief Inspectors of Education (CIE) from Edo and Delta states under Seplat Teachers Empowerment Programme (STEP) Certificates.
The teachers in question have concluded their three-month training on the programme.


The STEP initiative is an educational programme created by the leading indigenous energy company, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc and its partners, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), to improve the country’s standard of education, particularly for host States.
Over the years, SEPLAT made significant impacts with critical initiatives focused on providing quality education for states of our operations and the country. To consolidate its achievements on Sustainability Development Goal 4 for inclusive and equitable quality education, the Company introduced STEP (Seplat Teachers Empowerment Programme), a customized training programme for secondary school teachers. STEP is a three-month intensive training programme that equips teachers with tools to teach STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Mathematics).


To commemorate the certificate presentation ceremony Seplat hosted an Education Round Table further to explore the right policy formulation for quality education. The theme for the round table was Provision of Quality Education: A National Priority.
The Seplat Certificate Awards Ceremony which took place in Benin City, Edo State, alongside the Seplat Education Roundtable, which had educational experts and professionals in a highly engaging panel session moderated by Professor Pat Utomi.
The keynote speaker for the day was the former Edo State Commissioner of Education, Prof. Ngozi Osarenren.

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