Nigeria requires no less than 40,000 competent welders because of their strategic position in the oil and gas sector, President Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW), Dr. Solomon Edebiri, has revealed.
Dr. Edebiri made the revelation when he received the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Mr. Femi Ajayi, who was on a tour of training centres being utilised for the fund’s Welding Training and Certification Programme (WTCP).
Nigeria requires no less than 40,000 competent welders because of their strategic position in the oil and gas sector, President Nigerian Institute of Welding (NIW), Dr. Solomon Edebiri, has revealed.
Dr. Edebiri made the revelation when he received the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), Mr. Femi Ajayi, who was on a tour of training centres being utilised for the fund’s Welding Training and Certification Programme (WTCP).
He noted that though the figure is based on a gap analysis of the industry, the involvement of PTDF has scaled up the welding profession in the country through the upgrade of institutions and manpower development in the sector.
In his response, the PTDF boss, Mr. Femi Ajayi, justified the fund’s involvement in welding and fabrication describing it as a significant step towards addressing the dearth of competent and low level manpower globally recognised to practice and bridge the gap that have existed in the oil and gas industry. Mr. Femi Ajayi who inspected the welding training facilities in Port Harcourt, Lagos, Minna and Benin expressed satisfaction with the training facilities provided at the centres.
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