The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), in collaboration with Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical Company Limited, have begun a 12-month Nigerian Content NC-Remedial Training Programme for young university graduates.
The programmed kicked off on Friday in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with 29 trainees expected to focus on general skill sets and specialised skill sets that would fit them for oil and gas industry operations.
The participants will be introduced to Entrepreneurship, Health Safety at Work, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), and Engineering Materials, under the general skill sets, which are also compulsory for all the trainees.
There are also specialised skills set, where participants are required to concentrate on one or the other of the many competencies available, include Project Management, Scrum Master, Quality Management System ISO 9001:2015, Welding and Fabrication, Mobile Crane Operation, Plumbing and Pipe-fitting, and Mechanical Engineering Designs.
At the Kick-off Ceremony at Dexterous Applied Training Institute, Port Harcourt, the Director, Monitoring and Evaluation of NCDMB, Mr. Akintunde Adelana, said the programme is for human capital development.
This is the beginning of a new phase in your lives. The industry is in need of manpower, but manpower that is skilled.
He added that human capital development is central to the mandate of the Board and is also for the good of the trainees who need such vital skills to secure employment in the oil and gas industry and to become employers themselves.
He said: “This is the beginning of a new phase in your lives. The industry is in need of manpower, but manpower that is skilled.”
He urged them to make the best of the opportunity provided, while emphasising that the Board is “going to be tracking [their] progress” and also monitoring the quality of training imparted. He assured them that they would receive “globally-recognised certification” at the end of the programme.
Adelana, represented by Mr. Jeff Tuatuagha, General Manager, Upstream and Monitoring of the NCDMB, commended Waltersmith Refinery for keying meaningfully into the capacity building programme of the NCDMB and for the sound organisation in putting together the current training programme.
He commended Dexterous Applied Training Institute for successfully conducting the selection process based on personal data extracted from NCDMB’s Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Joint Qualification System (NOGIC JQS).
