Geoscienctists Task Council On Professiolism

The Nigerian mining And Geosciences Society (NMGS) has tasked the Council of Mining Engineers and Geosciences (Comeg) to ensure professionalism in the sector.
National president of the society, Professor Akinade Olatunji said this  during the presentation of accreditation certificates by the Council of Nigerian Mining Engineers and Geoscientists (COMEG); and the updated Geological Maps of Nigeria by NGSA to Institutions offering programmes in the Nigerian Extractive Industry professions.
Olatunji said it is gratifying to see that the Comeg board has been active and focused on actualising its core mandate, adding that the board has provided the right atmosphere for the implementation of progressive ideas and initiatives which have made the council to actualise its vision unimpeded.
The president also commended the renewed effort by the council at regulating the entry of professionals in the extractive industry, stressing that it has halted the deteriorating quality of instructions and training received by students in the various accredited programms as well as afford the management of such institutions the opportunities to retool where necessary and to facilitate procurement of additional teaching aids and laboratory equipment where such are found insufficient.
A press release signed by the head,  Press and Public Relations Department Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel,  Funmi Imuetinyan   and made available to The Tide said the minister  of Mines and Steel, Olamikan Adegbite
applauded COMEG for achieving the milestone of resuscitating the accreditation process, and called on the 19 accredited institutions not to  rest on their oars but to continue to improve as the education process evolves.
He also stressed the need for regular monitoring and evaluation of the training process in the industry to check the influx of quacks into the industry.
The Minister called on the Institutions yet to be visited for accreditation to give the council their maximum cooperation for the good of the extractive industry and the country at large.
The Chairman of COMEG, Dr. Godspower Ebimotimi Okpoi, in his remarks stated that to improve on the training and education of the extractive industry’s professionals, the council is working on setting up a committee to review the Nigeria Universities Commission’s (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standard Document, so as to align it with that of COMEG requirements and standard.
He noted that it is clearly outlined in the COMEG Act, that training comes first before other responsibilities. In his words, “good professional practice can only come out of good education and training.”