About Vision 2020

The “Vision 2020: Youth Empowerment and Restoration Initiative” is a youth and national development initiative of Lonadek Oil & Gas Consultants. The initiative is supported by Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited (APDNL), the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and various other industry stakeholders. The initiative involves collaboration with stakeholders in the Oil and Gas sector and other educational human resource focussed initiative to ensure the empowerment of Nigerian Youths.

Vision 2020 currently organises essay competitions, career retreats, facility visits with mentoring and scholarship programmes.

The objective of this initiative is to enable youths appreciate the career opportunities available to them in the Oil and Gas industry. Youths in SSS1 to SSS3 in Secondary Schools and Year 1 to 2 in Universities or polytechnics are hosted at a one day career workshop, where they watch films on oil and gas activities and various key job positions; listen to presentations by industry professionals on the history of the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry, and the realities of working in the industry. Students learn about the variety of career paths available in the industry and the pre-requisite qualifications for these jobs. Guidance counsellors learn about how best to support their students as they prepare for Oil and Gas careers while science teachers learn about the academic and practical requirements for these jobs, and are better able to tune their teaching to meet these needs.

The Lagos project, sponsored by Addax Petroleum, served as a pilot programme for future iterations planned for Port Harcourt, Abuja, Yenagoa, Warri, Kaduna, Owerri, Eket and Jos.

The primary objectives of this programme are:

• Exposing and preparing more youths to career options within the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry
• Increase capacity, capability and competence of the Nigerian youth and better prepare them for a rewarding experience as professionals in the Oil and Gas industry
• Increase Nigerian Content in the Oil and Gas industry, by training more Nigerian professionals between now and 2020 

Programme benefits

• Students learn about the variety of career paths available to them in the Nigerian Oil and Gas industry and start to prepare early.
• Follow-up with the participating schools allows students, teachers and guidance counsellors to remain tapped into a vibrant information-sharing network long after the career day has come and gone.

Partnership and Sponsorship:

• Addax has taken the lead as the Platinum Sponsor of this project as a sign of Addax’s commitment to developing Nigerians as skilled resource providers to the world Oil and Gas economy
• Chevron has made significant in-kind contributions to this project, also generously giving their time, advice and support.
• Other companies – PTDF, NNPC, OilStates, Shell, ExxonMobil-Bronze, Statoil, Total, Systran and AGIP – have also provided resources for the programme such as films, presentations and educational posters.
• For sponsorship, participation and exhibition at the event, please send enquiries to info@vision2020-ng.org.

With Nigeria strategically located to become the hub of Oil and Gas activities in the Gulf of Guinea and the on-going and planned Oil and Gas projects available, the development of capacity, capability and competence of Nigerian is essential youth, Nigeria to evolve into the primary supplier of skilled human resource capital to the world Oil and Gas economy.