Content Board Trains N’ Delta Youth On Spill Control

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), is organising a special training for the  youth in the Niger Delta region on oil spill control and environment remediation.

One thousand youths from each oil producing state are to benefit from the training.

The General Manager, Planning, Research and Statistics of the board, Wole Akinyosoye said this during an interview with The Tide in Port Harcourt.

Akinyosoye explained that the training was another way of checking the menace of oil spill in Niger Delta states.

According to him, the training would create employment opportunities for the participants in the oil and gas sector of the Niger Delta.

In another development, the Executive Director of Human Rights Alliance, Ken Atsuete has criticised the latest threat by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) to embark on a nationwide strike from today.

NUPENG threatened to embark on strike following a bank loan disagreement between jetty and petroleum tank farms owners and commercial banks.

A statement issued in Port Harcourt by Atsuete described the threat as frivolous and selfish.

His words, “ it is one threat too many that is devoid of consideration and concern for the teeming population that has been subjected to unending spate of petroleum scarcity since the year began”.

He, therefore, called on NUPENG to redirect itself by rescinding its decision on the strike.

Shedie Okpara

Students of the Rivers State School of Nursing, Rumueme,Port Harcourt, protesting poor facilities and learning environment in the school, in Port Harcourt, yesterday