WIEN’s diversity advocacy gains traction

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Tetracore Group Limited Team

The diversity advocacy of the Women In Energy Network (WIEN),an organisation of professional women who play in the energy sector , is beginning to yield positive result as companies ,now, include diversity in their recruitment  policies.

Concerns for gender diversity in the governance of business organisations, an idea which only crept into the whole corporate governance debate in recent years, have intensified and managed to remain in the front burner of the unending corporate governance debate.

As a result, there has been a sustained heated global debate challenging the traditional boardroom homogeneity in corporate governance and leadership.

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WIEN Women: Engr. Patricia Opene-Odili, Yetunde Odejobi, WIEN’s Media & Publicity Director, Onyema Obi and Blessing Edet from WIEN Secretariat at the commissioning of Tetracore’s Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Facility

WIEN ,which came on board some four years ago ,has  engaged in sustained campaign for parity in the corporate  boardrooms in the country.  

A well-placed source at the Tetracore Group  Limited ,who does not want his name in the print because is not allowed to speak for the company  told Oracle News Today, that the Group has diversity as one of the issues in its corporate policy.

 The source  spoke at the commissioning of Tetracore CNG Facility and Ground-Breaking of LNG Facility on Friday, 7th June 2024 in Ogun State

Confirming this, Head, Corporate Services at Tetracore Group,  Ijeoma  Nkiruka Onwordi, who is a member of WIEN, said it is not an exaggeration, adding that diversity policy is fully implemented in the group.

According to her, it is 50-50 here; nobody discriminates  against any person on the basis of gender in this organisation.

Onwordi,who  was elated that WIEN was fully represented at the event thanked the leadership of the  professional female group for coming to be part of what company is doing .

WIEN was fully at the event. The President Mrs Eyono Fatai Williams was represented by Mrs Onyema Obi, Media and Publicity Director of the Group

Tetracore Group  Limited, one of the corporate members of WIEN, is an integrated energy solutions provider with a robust and increasing energy portfolio (natural gas and power delivery) across the energy landscape in Nigeria and a growing footprint within the African continent.

 The group is  driven with a singular goal to deliver clean, cost effective and sustainable energy solutions for power, commercial and industrial sectors within the Nigerian Clime and the African Continent.

In his address at the ceremony , the Managing Director and CEO of the Group Olalekan Olakunle Williams, said  the Group  thas made significant strides in Nigeria over the past three years, particularly in the downstream and midstream sectors.

He said  the  focus has been developing distribution infrastructure within the natural gas sector and supplying natural gas to various industries, including power generation companies.

“Fully funded and developed, our energy portfolio enables us to deliver up to 70 million standard cubic feet of gas per day to multiple customers, supporting the national grid through the supply of natural gas to NDPHC, which accounts for about 5% of energy generation in Nigeria,” he said.

WIEN Members in a group photograph.

According to Williams, this “is in alignment with our mission of delivering sustainable energy solutions in Africa through talent, strategic partnerships, and innovative technology, Tetracore conceived the idea of setting up a state-of-the-art Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) facility.

“This facility addresses critical challenges in Nigeria’s current energy infrastructure. With Nigeria needing approximately $10 billion (about $47 per person in Nigeria) to provide sustainable and accessible energy for its 200 million + population, we recognized the need to take proactive steps.

“Tetracore has built a reputation and experience in the delivery of piped natural gas. However, we realized the need to address the needs of customers in stranded locations without access to existing piped natural gas delivery infrastructure.