NCDMB trains 500 Niger Delta students on oil, gas

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has trained 500 students selected from secondary schools in states across the Niger Delta region.

A statement from the board’s Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Idowu Adejumo, said the approach was a new initiative to fill the skill technical gap in the nation’s oil and gas sector.

He said the 500 students were selected from 200 secondary schools to participated in the maiden edition of the scheme titled, “Bridging the local content gap in Nigeria’s Industrial Sector: Science, technology and engineering to the rescue”.

Adejumo said the facilitator of the career talks, Osk Leverages and Vie Logistique, worked with respective state ministry of education in Ondo, Edo, Delta, Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Imo, Rivers and Bayelsa, to ensure the success of the programme.

He said: “The talks anchored by an experienced facilitator, a senior safety engineer with over 15 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector, Victor Ekasa, has been held in six states of Ondo, Edo, Delta, Cross River, Abia and Imo.

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“The students are encouraged to consider careers in sciences, engineering, and technology towards building local capacity and reduce the number of expatriates in the country”.

He noted that the current management of the NCDMB under the Executive Secretary, Mr.Simbi Wabote, was supporting the move to catch the ‘engineers’ young.

He said: “Two best participating students in each of the state are to go home with a branded mini laptop as a way to encourage them.

“The industrial growth of any nation is anchored on science, engineering and technology and all efforts must be put in place to encourage the new generation to take up the challenge for national growth.

“We need more Nigerian engineers to man the very technical aspects of oil and gas operations. Nigerians have the capacity to compete favourably and this programme will help us build new set of engineers, scientists and technologists”.

 

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