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The National Institute for Petroleum Policy and Strategy (NIPPS), Kaduna will soon be functional as work on the oil and gas training facility being developed by the Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has reached 80 per cent of completion.
The facility when in use will provide a training ground for PTDF scholars who studied abroad.
Ahmed Galadima Aminu, acting executive secretary, PTDF during a visit at the site of the on-going development of the NIPPS in Kaduna expressed satisfaction with the quality of work done so far by the contractors affirming that PTDF is building an oil and gas training facility that the industry will be proud of and celebrate, a statement from Kalu Otisi, head, press and external relations of PTDF.
“The mission of the Fund is to develop this place as a Centre of Excellence for the training of high level manpower for the oil and gas industry. I am happy to observe that the development of the facility has advanced almost 80% completed.
“With adequate funding in the next two to three months, we will have something happening here for the whole oil and gas industry to celebrate”, the PTDF boss stated.
He explained that although the ultimate objective of the facility is to provide a platform for the domestication of some of the training programmes being conducted abroad by PTDF, he added that the Fund intends to immediately commence short training programmes for oil and gas top managers as well as graduate training programmes.
“The Centre is supposed to serve as the platform for us to domesticate some of the trainings that we do, we will also do short training programmes and graduate training programmes. We hope to start one or two of such training programmes here before we now fully commence the domestication of the trainings that we do”, Aminu added.
Nestled in the 95 hectares of land is a panorama of well-developed structures incorporating academic buildings, ancillary support service buildings, hostels and staff buildings.
