Elohor Aiboni, the first female Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo), and Elozino Olaniyan, the General Manager of Shell’s Safety and Environment in Nigeria, were recently recognized for their professional achievements.
The Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE) conferred the fellowship of the society on both Aiboni and Olaniyan at an investiture ceremony in Abuja.
Aiboni has been with Shell for 24 years and has held various leadership positions within the company. Upon being appointed as the Managing Director of SNEPCo last year, she became the first woman to hold the position in the company’s history.
Aiboni described her investiture as an honour and recognition of her industry-wide achievements. She said, “This will spur me on to continue supporting the advancement of the engineering profession, most especially by mentoring young engineers and enabling them to become even greater enablers of a sustainable future for generations to come.”
Olaniyan is an engineer with over three decades of experience and is a subject matter expert on safety and environment for Shell companies in Nigeria. He described the NSE fellowship as “a call to higher service to the profession.” Olaniyan said, “The NSE fellowship award is deeply meaningful to me, not just because it recognizes my contributions to the industry, but because it also motivates me to continue my advocacy for the advancement of STEM in Nigeria and to be an ambassador for ethical engineering practice.”
Managing Director of the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria and Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Osagie Okunbor, described Aiboni and Olaniyan as “passionate and experienced professionals” whose recognition by the NSE was not a surprise. Okunbor said the fellowship awards underscored Shell’s commitment to the continued training and capacity development of Nigerian professionals.
He added, “Shell is pleased to see the NSE and other reputable organizations acknowledge the contributions of Shell-trained engineers to the profession and to Nigeria at large.”
