By Eseoghene Emuke
As parts of efforts to promote peace and empower youths, 300 youths drawn from the Niger Delta region have been selected to undergo two-week training on petroleum engineering technologies.
The training is aimed to equip and engage youths of the region in latest oil and gas skills that would ensure that they become self-reliant and contribute to the peace process in the oil-rich region.
The training is being organized by Ufugold Projects Services Limited in conjunction with the Petroleum Institute, Effurun, Delta State, through the support of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.
Flagging off the two-week workshop on Monday at the PTI Effurun, the Principal of the Institute, Dr Henry Adimula, said the training would equip the beneficiaries with specialised skills in the petroleum industry.
Adimula, while enjoining the trainees to take workshop seriously, noted that with the recently signed Petroleum Industry Act, there will be job opportunities for youths of the region.
He explained that the scheme is being funded by the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government through Ministry of Petroleum Resources to positively engage youths of the Niger Delta region.
According to him, beneficiaries who take the training serious might become self-reliant, entrepreneurs and future employers of labour in the oil and gas industry.
He noted that the benefiting youths were carefully selected to expose them to modern-day petroleum engineering technology-related skills throughout the duration of the workshop.
Dr. Adimula said “The petroleum Training institute is very proud and very privileged to be partnering and delivering this training today, and our hope is that at the of this program, all of us in this hall will become entrepreneurs. Use the skills you will gain here to start up something useful in life.
“The people we are training is from the entire Niger Delta and we are training them because we realize the needs for our youth to gain the necessary skills to be able to stand on their own.
“And what we do is to have coordinators in all the states and we have selected representatives for each state in the region. It is not possible to train all the youths at the same time.
In his remark, Managing Director of Ufugold Project Services, Ufuoma Johngold, commended the Federal Government for approving the training, stressing that it will help curb unemployment in the region.
Johngold added that training will also send right signals to youths of the region that the Federal Government is interested in alleviating the suffering and poverty in the region.
He, however, enjoined youths shun crimes and work with relevant stakeholders to promote and development in their areas.
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