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The Federal Government, Thursday, allayed fears over the sacking of workers of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, and the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory, PPPRA, stating that workers of both agencies would be assimilated into the new petroleum industry regulator to be set up by the Petroleum Industry Governance Bill, PIGB.

Speaking at a Round table on understanding the PIGB, organized by the Nigeria Natural Resource Charter, NNRC and the Media Initiative on Transparency in the Extractive Industry, MITEI, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, however, insisted that that DPR and the PPPRA would be scrapped and would be merged into the Petroleum Regulatory Commission, PRC, as stipulated by the Bill.

Kachikwu, who was represented by his Senior Technical Adviser on Policy and Regulation, Mr. Adegbite Adeniji, also stated that it would not be business as usual as key performance indicators, KPI, would be set for the Board, management and other employees, adding that any official found wanting in the discharge in his or duties would be sanctioned and shown the exit.

He maintained that the scrapping of the DPR and the PPPRA, apart from ensuring that no one is sacked, would provide an opportunity for new persons to be employed into the new entity to be set up, especially as new ideas are sought to fill in gaps that might exist in the company.

He said, “Where they are gaps in the manpower in there, it provides an opportunity for people to be appointed from outside, because again, you want to put in new ideas, fresh legs in the whole process. In that process, you preserve the jobs, and you also attract a pathway for the employment of other skills from outside to help energise the new system you are trying to build.”

Board, management get authority to hire, fire.

Kachikwu said the Board and management of the new regulatory entity would be given the power to hire and fire and also given the authority to set benchmarks with which staff would be measured.

He said, “At that time, it has not nothing to do with the minister, it is up to the management to retain their staff afterwards. You then have to make sure you actually meet up to task as far your job is concerned. That is how we dealt with the issue of labour.

“After that, with the mandate that each institution would have for efficiency, people there have to work and display their performance in their jobs. But at the inception, the existing jobs would be there, but then people would then have to rise up to the occasion, because those Boards that would be in those entities would be mandated statutorily to ensure efficiency in the public interest. Therefore, from that point on, you do not have a job for life. You now have to be worth that salary, that money you are paid.”

Kachikwu explained that powers would now be given to the management of the entity to ensure they operate efficiently and effectively, to enable them correctly make decisions as to who would meet up with the requirements for their position.

He said, “Once the ball gets rolling, the question would now be if I am the manager at the helm of the institution, I would want to see who is effective and who is not. That is now the Key Performance Indicators (KPI) for the Board and for the Chief Executive of the institution, to make sure he runs an effective institution.”

FG insists PPPRA, DPR to be scrapped.

Continuing, the Minister said, “What the PIGB has done is to establish a single regulatory authority. What PPPRA does today is to regulate petroleum products pricing, so it is almost like an economic regulator for the downstream. What the PIGB creates is the Petroleum Regulatory Commission, which now undertakes technical and economic regulation of the upstream, midstream and the downstream.

“It regulates oil, gas and products. It assimilates both DPR and PPPRA, such that those two institutions would no longer exist; a new entity is created from that merger. So there would be no more PPPRA, inasmuch as there would be no more DPR. We would have a new regulator that covers the whole fields.

“The idea is this, if you are a regulator and you do not have access to all information in the industry, you cannot be effective; which is part of the reasons why our current system is not effective, because they are split among two or three agencies. But when you merge them and you create one and all the different regulatory powers now rest on that entity, then you would now start to have a platform on which to further regulate.”

Incompetent people would destroy oil industry

Kachikwu further explained that the new law is trying to build a more muscular regulator, while he warned that it would be dangerous if competent people were not engaged to run the organization.

He said, “We cannot sacrifice the future of the country on the altar of incompetence. This is where we have to be watchful, so that the hiring process into that entity must be done in a manner that it gives clarity to all that things are been done in national interest.

“We are taking the entire petroleum industry into an entity that is statutorily independent, from political interference. The way the Minister can interfere is through policy directions. The policy directives must emanate from published policies. That is say this is the policy of the country and it must be a consistent policy.”

ufuosman:
Ameachi and wike, two good business partner

People just dey use una head. dem go dey one side dey laff una

benben1000:
What a country, no one is helping her. This country is useless!

Short man...see as him take sitdon with insecurity all over his body language. She must be talking to a tall guy as the girl tall too. I bet he must have invested so much on her, and she wa
nted to play him...lol. Fear short men oh!

Women, my advice to you....don't ever take a man's thing, time or money if you don't plan to be with him. Be honest with him, if you want money, tell him...I don't want anything serious but I will give cookie in return. Shikena, simple! I know a guy who trained this girl through university only to catch him with one Alhaji. He almost killed himself...the pain is not what she did but WHY WASTE MY TIME AND MONEY!

this can not be Nigeria. Our men aren't jealous like dat except if na money ritual

Chief James Ibori, former governor of Delta State, has said that Nigerians should be more concerned with whether the youths are ready to lead, rather than a mere generational shift at the nation’s helm of affairs.
James Ibori According to him, what the nation needs is courage and vision, as “age has nothing to do with good leadership.”
In an article he wrote, Politics is a game of ideas and numbers, Ibori said that Nigerian youths need to pay the required price.

He argued that the call for President Muhammadu Buhari not to seek re-election so as to pave way for a youth to lead the country is unjustified. “The choice we face is not that of ‘paedarchy’ or ‘paedocracy’ versus gerontocracy. “This age-related argument should not be aimed at Buhari.

The constitution gives him the right to seek the Presidency for two terms. The argument for and against him should be based on his record of achievement.

“The young ones need to make the necessary sacrifice, study the problems facing the society, master how to solve the problems of the various parts of the Nigerian federation. “Have the youths trumped the old in behaviour, morality, leadership, integrity and frugality? How have our youth fared in the professions, the military and the civil service? Do they even hold out any hope for the nation?” Ibori asked.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/02/not-buharis-age-nigeria-needs-courage-vision-ibori/

senatordave1:
Was maurice iwu not being remote controlled by pdp?

Talk about Jega first

Na wa

I'm still looking for reasons y the current president won't be voted for. Even through the worst economic period over the world. Venezuela, and others with fewer population went into recession b4 Nigeria. Majority of common Nigeria both from north and south would vote him in if allowed to vote freely. We all kW election doest hold in the south

6UEE:
Staged. Both the kidnap and rescue missions were staged operations strategically designed to bolster babas approval ratings ahead of the 2019 elections. Expect more of these shows in the future.

What about the bomb blast in same place that killed many same day, was it staged too?

Them no gree settle

Ameachi did so well on this using REWAMA and Wike is doing well too using same REWAMA

LagosismyHome:
The bigger question is how to stop the use of tramadol.... regardless of visa or whose watching

I don't do drugs. I had severe pains. Twas on doctors prescription. Paracetamol and panadol hardly work on me. I gave to take up to 4-5 tap of Paracetamol and panadol for the pain. It it works very slowly

Can one be denied of visa cos of illicit drug usage when no medical examination is carried out. 6 months study.

LaaJiblik:
You mean UK visa?

Yea

Even when no medical examination is carried out can one be disqualified because of illicit drug like tramadol usage?

Even when no medical examination is carried out can one be disqualified because of illicit drug like tramadol usage?

Can one be denied of visa cos of illicit drug usage when no medical examination is carried out. 6 months study visa

ezyk:
Can illicit drug intake be detected during visa interview? Could it be from the flash light?

Even when no medical examination is carried out can one be disqualified because of illicit drug like tramadol usage?

Can illicit drug intake be detected during visa interview? Could it be from the flash light?

The woman get bad mouth

guterMann:
Fulani Herdsmen are not Nigerians------says FG.

Fulani herdsmen are not responsible for the killings in Benue------says FG

Fulani herdsmen have agreed to cease fire-------says FG.

This government is being openly nepotistic and biased ,playing politics with human lives.

So,now that they have been begged to stop killing,there crime will be swept under the carpet?

No justice for those killed?

Trust the Buhari government to deny subsequent attacks by Fulani herdsmen ,they will say that they have laid down their arms.


Umahi needs to do DNA test asap,he is a pawn to the Fulani caliphate,he may not be Igbo.

WELCOME TO FULANI REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA.

THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN MUST SET FORTH AT DAWN

This IPOB terrorist seff. Am sure u can never be pleased. Except Buhari's DNA says he's an indigbo. Abeg make I see road jor

[s]Useless country...things are not going well, people are dying left and right yet Hausa-Fulani and Afonjas want it to continue. Other tribes hold them particularly Afonjas responsible because Igbos have sacrificed so much to separate this country for the good of all of us. [/s]
Ipob spotted we have a terrorist in the house

For that him song. Dino dino Melaye I say Dino Dino Melaye

I just come book space oh. Make u na no vex.

Ok

Ok

Duke may get support from Buhari seff.

Duke may get support from buhari seff