Firm Deepens Community Investment With Empowerment, Scholarship Programmes

Segilola Resources Operating Limited (SROL), a subsidiary of Thor Explorations Ltd and relation of Nigeria’s archetypal commercialized golden project, the Segilola Gold Mine successful Osun State, has reaffirmed its committedness to sustainable assemblage improvement done the palmy implementation of its 2025 Segilola Women Initiative Programme (SWIP) and Scholarship Scheme.

The grant ceremonies, held connected October 17, 2025, astatine the Iperindo Community New Town Hall successful Osun State, drew implicit 645 attendees and celebrated 90 beneficiaries, including 60 assistance recipients and 30 women entrepreneurs. The lawsuit underscored SROL’s ongoing concern successful education, enterprise, and inclusive maturation crossed its big communities.

Speaking astatine the event, SROL’s Community Development and Stakeholder Manager, Madhurii Sarkar-Amoda, said the company’s assemblage initiatives bespeak its content successful quality superior improvement arsenic the instauration for lasting progress.

“At Segilola Resources, we judge that genuine and lasting interaction begins with people—empowering them done education, enterprise, and opportunity,” she said. “Our programmes are designed not lone to supply contiguous enactment but besides to physique the instauration for semipermanent maturation and self-reliance wrong our big communities.”

She added that SROL remains committed to ensuring its operations lend positively to the societal and economical advancement of its big communities, fostering inclusion, dignity, and shared prosperity.

According to the firm, done the SWIP, Scholarship Scheme, and Youth Empowerment Programme, Segilola Resources proceed to fortify its estimation arsenic a liable mining institution that prioritises people, education, and empowerment astatine the bosom of its operations, portion promoting sustainable and liable mining practices crossed Nigeria.

Dignitaries contiguous astatine the lawsuit included representatives from big communities, authorities agencies, and spouse institutions. Among them were Town Planner Omoniyi Temitope, representing HRM Oba Isaiah Adedeji, the Tirimi of Iperindo; Chief Gbenga Oladunjoye, the Loyin of Iperindo; Chief Abiodun Abe, the Riisa of Iperindo; Comrade Paul Obasanya, Chairman of Imogbara Community; Chief Ademola Osobu, the Ejemu of Imogbara; and representatives from Odo-Ijesha.

Government officials successful attendance included Engr. Wasiu Adeboye, Osun State Federal Mines officer, and Anita Kpade, MEC Officer. SROL was represented by its Finance and Administrative manager, James Olubanwo, and Deputy Human Resources Manager, Mr Femi Ajayi Peter, on with a delegation from the Federal Road Safety Corps.

Since its motorboat successful 2021, the Segilola Women Initiative Programme has empowered implicit 100 women to execute fiscal independency and fortify their information successful section economies. This year, different 30 women from big communities received concern equipment, including freezers, sewing and stoning machines, digesters, multipurpose grinders, and state burners with cooler sets, to enactment their tiny enterprises.