This is the third installment on the topic of how the (hopefully) soon-to-be-passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) will, or should, impact on Nigeria's national oil company the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), as regards human capacity building and job creation.
In the first discourse, I presented how history has burdened the NNPC, right from its creation, with the task of playing a critical role in building a technical and administrative manpower base for the country's oil and gas industry. In the second discourse, I wrote about the challenges the corporation itself is facing in defining and following a workable recruitment and human capacity building agenda that is in tune with both the aspirations of its core investors, which include all Nigerians, its expected position to be a trend setter and standard bearer to all companies and institutions involved in the energy industry in Nigeria and, finally, its ambition to be a global player in the oil and gas realm.
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