The Shell Petroleum
Development Company’s
(SPDC) General Manager,
Nigerian Content
Development, Mr. Igo Weli, has
disclosed that empowering
Niger Delta contractors
through entrepreneurial skills,
will make them to also
operate at the global scene as
better managers.
The Chief Executive Officer
(CEO) of Heirs Holdings, Mr.
Tony Elumelu, also urged the
Anglo/Dutch oil giant (SPDC) to
continue to be patronising
contractors from its host
communities in the Niger
Delta, to ensure peace and
transformation of the region
and its people.
They stated these yesterday at
the Hotel Presidential, Port
Harcourt, Rivers State, at the
SPDC’s Community Content
Business Clinic, with one
hundred contractors from
across the nine states of the
Niger Delta in attendance.
The maiden edition of the
clinic for the indigenous
contractors was held in
November last year, with
Shell’s general manager,
Nigerian content development
assuring that it would
continue as an annual event.
Weli said: “The aim of the
community content business
clinic is to interact with our
local contractors. The key
focus is building their
entrepreneurial skills, to help
them improve as managers.
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