OGTAN asks NNPC to become training coach in the country ⋆ Nigeria News

The Association of Oil and Gas Trainers of Nigeria (OGTAN) urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to support the process that would discourage oil companies in the country from training their staff at the same time. foreign.

million. Afe Mayowa, president of OGTAN, made the call to the Association's Business Forum Thursday in Lagos.

He said that it was necessary that the NNPC and other government agencies take the step in discouraging the training of personnel outside the country.

Mayowa explained that Oil and gas experts abroad were prejudicial to the growth of the Nigerian economy when this training could be done in the country to save the nation billions of dollars.

He said that the essence of the forum was to create a platform to educate members and create opportunities for them to have more knowledge and take advantage of these opportunities.

According to him, we are not against the training of people. outside of the country, but what we mean is that training should be done in Nigeria.

"The country is losing a lot, the reason being that Nigeria has to be very patriotic, for example, the economy of Dubai and Ghana has been stimulated by Nigerian companies that are training there. Nigerian

"Bringing Nigerian personnel to Ghana, with Nigerian instructors, with Nigerian participants, most of the time,

" We are launching against government agencies or oil and gas companies that are going to overseas to train Nigerians on what should be done in the country. We should get out of the country to learn skills that are not in Nigeria.

"We want the NNPC to defend the cause so that these practices carried out outside the country benefit Nigeria and Nigerians." OGTAN is not against training abroad, but there are some that can be done in the country.

Mayowa also urged the federal government and the National Assembly to mandate all oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria. Membership in the OGTAN is a prerequisite for registration and the processing of projects in strict compliance with the Nigerian Content Development Law.

He asked the government to badociate with the badociation to train and develop the youth of the host community. in oil and gas in such communities.

Total E & P Nigeria's Executive Director, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Mr. Vincent Nnadi, said that the company had invested heavily in Nnadi, who delivered the speech for the first time. Opening on "Total Capacity Building in Nigeria", said that Total, which is a major player in offshore and onshore oil exploration in Nigeria, is still focused on He said that A company of more than 3,000 employees had invested heavily in the youth of its host community in capacity building and entrepreneurial projects.

TOTAL is also a partner of the University of Port Harcourt, the University of Science and Technology, Abuja and Lagos Business School, which organize 12-month internships for young people and allow them to study in Master and Postgraduate Diploma

. ] "We have also invested in science faculty within our operating centers, while we have also invested in more than 1,000 young people on qualified acquisitions." More than $ 1.5 million is invested each year in development of young people to study at the Institute of Petroleum Studies. "

" Our priority is to ensure that young Nigerians are educated and independent, "he said.