NCDMB delivers 10.2 m hours of training
*8836 youths acquire various industry skills
Sopuruchi Onwuka
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has declared completion of training programs for 8, 836 Nigerian youths in various skills currently demanded in the petroleum industry.
The various programs which form the key focus of the agency’s capacity building mandate in the industry engaged both trainers and trainees for 10,228,624 productive hours.
Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr Simbi Wabote, has declared at various forums that capacity building realized through deliberately created training programs is critical to meeting the set industry aspiration to grow local content to over 70 percent by 2035.
In information posters displayed at the ongoing Practical Nigerian Content (PNC), NCDMB declared that 1,634 of the beneficiaries were captured in the Nigerian Content Non-compliance Remediation Training program.
NCDMB stated that significant 2,718,240 man hours was deployed in the Nigerian Content Non-compliance Remediation Training program.
The agency also stated that another 3,069 youths were absorbed into Project Based Training Programs.
To build skills into the trainees, the publication stated, trainers engaged them for 5,892,480 man hours.
And under the Direct Intervention Training Programs coordinated by the NCDMB, another 4,133 youths were trained in various petroleum industry relevant skills.
The Direct Intervention Training Programs consumed 1,617,904 man hours.
The Oracle Today reports that the annual PNC hosted at NCDMB Towers, Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, form the platform for industry stock taking on the local content mandate.
Since he came on board in 2017, Engr Wabote has significantly grown Nigerian Content of the industry from less than 10 percent to over 55 percent and towards the 70 percent target by 2035.
Industry players at the conference are full of commendation for Engr Wabote on his momentous verve in delivery of key components of government’s economic aspirations for the petroleum sector.
