{"id":12770,"date":"2023-11-22T18:40:45","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/?p=12770"},"modified":"2023-11-22T18:40:49","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T18:40:49","slug":"sen-teslim-folarin-lauds-ncdmb-as-500-youths-graduate-from-solar-power-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/?p=12770","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Teslim Folarin lauds NCDMB\u00a0as\u00a0500\u00a0Youths Graduate from\u00a0Solar Power\u00a0Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Sen. Teslim Kolawole Folarin,\u00a0the former Chairman of the Local Content Committee\u00a0in the 9th<\/sup>\u00a0Senate\u00a0has\u00a0commended\u00a0the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)\u00a0for training\u00a0500 youths in\u00a0Oyo\u00a0State on solar power installation and maintenance.\u00a0
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The training programme was organized as part of the\u00a0Board\u2019s youth empowerment\u00a0and\u00a0human\u00a0capacity-building\u00a0initiatives. The training was\u00a0conducted\u00a0at Ibadan, the Oyo\u00a0state\u00a0capital,\u00a0and it lasted for six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Folarin, who represented Oyo Central Senatorial District gavethe commendation on Tuesday when he participated in the close-out ceremony of the training held at Ibadan. He lauded the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabotefor his dedication to growing Local Content and building capacity for youths of the country, noting that \u201cIf we have about 10 Simbi\u2019s in Nigeria, our country will be a better place\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He requested the Board to continually engage the youths with more training and contract opportunities in the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delivering the keynote address at the event, the Director, Planning, Research and Statistics at the NCDMB, AlhaljiAbdulmalik Halilu hinted that the Board initiated the programme to create employment opportunities in the country, generate wealth and empower the youths to contributemeaningfully to the economy of the nation. He observed that technology, skill acquisition in trades and agriculture are some of the high-impact economic sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He harped that solar power installation and maintenance training provided an alternative source of power at homes and offices to support the national power grid in addition to providing job opportunities for the youths. He further disclosed that as part of the end-to-end planning for the programme, the Board has concluded arrangements to register cooperative societies for the group as well as provide shops where they would practice their trades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to him, \u201cthe trainees will commence business as registration of cooperatives and the provision of shops in groups for the graduates has been done. This empowerment programme was aimed at providing lifelong support to youths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He implored Nigerian youths to take advantage of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Joint Qualification System (NOGICJQS), adding that the platform is used to select participants for human capacity-building interventions and employment opportunities whenever they are available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her comments, the General Manager of the Corporate Communication and Zonal Coordination Division, Mrs. Angela Okoro gave an overview of the Board\u2019s objectives and mandates stating that the Board has trained over 16,000 semi-skilled and skilled youths across the country, in furtherance of its Human Capital Development initiatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Teslim Kolawole Folarin,\u00a0the former Chairman of the Local Content Committee\u00a0in the 9th\u00a0Senate\u00a0has\u00a0commended\u00a0the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)\u00a0for training\u00a0500 youths in\u00a0Oyo\u00a0State on solar power installation and maintenance.\u00a0 The training programme was organized as part of the\u00a0Board\u2019s youth empowerment\u00a0and\u00a0human\u00a0capacity-building\u00a0initiatives. The training was\u00a0conducted\u00a0at Ibadan, the Oyo\u00a0state\u00a0capital,\u00a0and it lasted for six months. Folarin, who represented Oyo Central Senatorial District gavethe commendation on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[4156,5334,4146,4163,4225,5396],"class_list":["post-12770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","tag-current-news-in-nigeria","tag-ncdmb","tag-news-analysis","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-newspapers","tag-sen-teslim-folarin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/modusoperandum.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/IMG_5921.png?fit=225%2C225&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12772,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12770\/revisions\/12772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modusoperandum.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}