OPM G.O Secures International Jobs for 104 Nigerians in Oil Servicing Companies in Saudi Arabia (Video)

The General Overseer of Omega Power Ministry (OPM), Port Harcourt, HRM King Apostle Dr Chibuzor Chinyere, has secured international employment for 104 Nigerian youths, who will now travel to Saudi Arabia to work with an oil servicing company, following a rigorous recruitment and training process facilitated by the ministry.

According to Apostle Chinyere, the placement is the latest fruit of OPM’s welfare mandate, which includes a free school and free oil and gas training programme for underprivileged Nigerians. The ministry runs a multi-skill education centre offering free training in pipeline laying, rigging, electrical and electronics work, mechanical trades, and scaffolding.

However, he noted that certification alone was not enough, trainees needed jobs after graduation, prompting him to travel and network in search of employers willing to hire them.

That search led to a partnership with a Saudi Arabia-based oil company, which sent a team to Nigeria to conduct its own independent screening of candidates.

Apostle Chinyere was emphatic that the company covered its own flights and accommodation and declined all offers of hospitality, including paying for their own hotel stay and turning down a dinner invitation, to ensure the recruitment process remained untainted by outside influence. Of those who sat for the assessment, 104 candidates were successful.

The successful candidates will receive visas, flight tickets, free accommodation, and feeding from the employer at no cost to themselves. Apostle Chinyere said he is personally funding the processing of their international passports and medical examinations, with the group expected to visit the immigration office to begin the passport process.

Asked about his motivation, Apostle Chinyere attributed the initiative to his Christian faith and a personal history of hardship, recalling a period when he slept under a bridge.

He said this experience shapes his continued outreach to the less privileged, including a home-building initiative for the poor. He stressed that beneficiaries of the programme cut across religious and ethnic lines, citing two candidates from Muslim backgrounds in Gombe State among the 104, as well as a group of children of policemen who died in active service, whom he had earlier placed on international scholarships at the recommendation of a former Inspector General of Police’s wife.

Apostle Chinyere said he charges beneficiaries nothing for the opportunity, asking only that they pay the support forward by helping others once they are established abroad, noting that previous batches of beneficiaries have gone on to support their families and build homes for relatives back home.

The Saudi Arabia placement is only the latest in a string of welfare interventions by the ministry. The ministry has recently also stepped in to empower Nigerian men and women who returned home from South Africa following xenophobic attacks on Nigerians there, helping them rebuild their livelihoods.

Apostle Chinyere through tithes and offerings from OPM purchased a mini estate to provide free housing for them, procured a brand-new bus to ease their movement, and awarded scholarships to their children.

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