mayprince: Mandates foreign engineering firms to register with COREN
By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach.
The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in Nigeria by ensuring that trained engineers are well positioned to deploy the knowledge acquired in their various fields to the development of technology in the country.
Briefing journalists in the State House, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, said as against the tradition of posting a large number of engineering graduates to schools by NYSC, youth corps members who are graduates of engineering must henceforth be posted only to engineering firms and other institutions that are relevant to their professional fields.
Aside prohibiting such firms from rejecting engineering graduates posted to them, the Act mandates NYSC to immediately communicate the name of any institution where an engineering graduate is posted to, for his/her primary assignment, to the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
Enang cited Section 14 (i and ii) of the Act which provides that “The Directorate of the National Youth Service Corps shall ensure posting of graduate engineers and technologists to places of relevant professional engineering experience.
“Pursuant to the provision of subsection (i), the Directorate of National Youth Service Corps shall communicate the location of graduate engineers and engineering technologists to the Council.’’
Furthermore, the Act prohibits any foreign engineering firm from operating in Nigeria without being duly registered in the country by COREN.
It also mandates such a foreign firm to ensure the introduction of local content into the operations of the company by employing Nigerian engineers.
Enang added: “The Act broaden engineering ‘practitioners to include a registered engineer, engineering technologist, engineering technician and engineering craftsman.’ It emphasises more on engineering practitioners as against ‘engineer.’
“The Act has been remitted in accordance with standard legal procedures. The principal Act establishes the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria – COREN’ with power vested.
“The amendment now assented to by Mr. President broadens the powers of COREN with far-reaching powers of prosecution of infractions, regulating industrial training of engineers, capacity building of local content in Nigeria engineering industry.
“Specifically, the new law grants COREN powers of: ‘prosecuting any person or firm that contravenes the provisions of this Act in a court of competent jurisdiction; regulating industrial training schemes in engineering practitioners and students; ensuring capacity building and monitoring local content development in the Nigerian engineering industry through – mandatory attachment of Nigerians to expatriate engineers on major projects to understudy them from inception; ensuring that all foreign engineering firms establish their design offices in Nigeria.”
Enang also said the new Act grants “compulsory attestation to all expatriate quota for engineering practitioners, including turnkey project, that there are no qualified and competent Nigerians for the job in question at the time of application and that granting of the expatriate quota shall be contingent on training of such number of persons as may be required for the execution of the job, and; ensuring that, before being allowed to practice in Nigeria, such foreign engineering practitioners granted work permit, register with the council and obtain such licenses as may be required from time to time; investigating engineering failures.’’
He further disclosed that the Act further authorises the admission of some engineering associations into COREN as the umbrella body of all engineers in the country.
Such associations as listed by Enang are: Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering, Nigerian Society of Engineering Technicians, and Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen.
According to him, the Act further authorises one person to represent in COREN, the Association for Consulting Engineering in Nigeria, Federation of Construction Industry in Nigeria, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, and Armed Forces in rotation.
“The Council is now entitled to maintain a fund into which shall be paid money appropriated by the National Assembly, subventions, fees, charges for services rendered or publications made, donations, engineering development levy, among others,” Enang added.
If this is true, then NYSC has lost its soul; it's essence. Essentially, this will Transform NYSC from National Service to an unstructured glorified internship program. PMB should have known that national service and professional internship are poles apart.
mayprince: Mandates foreign engineering firms to register with COREN
By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja
President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach.
The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in Nigeria by ensuring that trained engineers are well positioned to deploy the knowledge acquired in their various fields to the development of technology in the country.
Briefing journalists in the State House, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, said as against the tradition of posting a large number of engineering graduates to schools by NYSC, youth corps members who are graduates of engineering must henceforth be posted only to engineering firms and other institutions that are relevant to their professional fields.
Aside prohibiting such firms from rejecting engineering graduates posted to them, the Act mandates NYSC to immediately communicate the name of any institution where an engineering graduate is posted to, for his/her primary assignment, to the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).
Enang cited Section 14 (i and ii) of the Act which provides that “The Directorate of the National Youth Service Corps shall ensure posting of graduate engineers and technologists to places of relevant professional engineering experience.
“Pursuant to the provision of subsection (i), the Directorate of National Youth Service Corps shall communicate the location of graduate engineers and engineering technologists to the Council.’’
Furthermore, the Act prohibits any foreign engineering firm from operating in Nigeria without being duly registered in the country by COREN.
It also mandates such a foreign firm to ensure the introduction of local content into the operations of the company by employing Nigerian engineers.
Enang added: “The Act broaden engineering ‘practitioners to include a registered engineer, engineering technologist, engineering technician and engineering craftsman.’ It emphasises more on engineering practitioners as against ‘engineer.’
“The Act has been remitted in accordance with standard legal procedures. The principal Act establishes the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria – COREN’ with power vested.
“The amendment now assented to by Mr. President broadens the powers of COREN with far-reaching powers of prosecution of infractions, regulating industrial training of engineers, capacity building of local content in Nigeria engineering industry.
“Specifically, the new law grants COREN powers of: ‘prosecuting any person or firm that contravenes the provisions of this Act in a court of competent jurisdiction; regulating industrial training schemes in engineering practitioners and students; ensuring capacity building and monitoring local content development in the Nigerian engineering industry through – mandatory attachment of Nigerians to expatriate engineers on major projects to understudy them from inception; ensuring that all foreign engineering firms establish their design offices in Nigeria.”
Enang also said the new Act grants “compulsory attestation to all expatriate quota for engineering practitioners, including turnkey project, that there are no qualified and competent Nigerians for the job in question at the time of application and that granting of the expatriate quota shall be contingent on training of such number of persons as may be required for the execution of the job, and; ensuring that, before being allowed to practice in Nigeria, such foreign engineering practitioners granted work permit, register with the council and obtain such licenses as may be required from time to time; investigating engineering failures.’’
He further disclosed that the Act further authorises the admission of some engineering associations into COREN as the umbrella body of all engineers in the country.
Such associations as listed by Enang are: Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering, Nigerian Society of Engineering Technicians, and Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen.
According to him, the Act further authorises one person to represent in COREN, the Association for Consulting Engineering in Nigeria, Federation of Construction Industry in Nigeria, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, and Armed Forces in rotation.
“The Council is now entitled to maintain a fund into which shall be paid money appropriated by the National Assembly, subventions, fees, charges for services rendered or publications made, donations, engineering development levy, among others,” Enang added.
sheddo619: Hmmm Translation.Translation.Translation Greetings to you all After greeting in Islam tradition Please brothers I need prayers from any one who hears or see's what just happened, because am not happy with what I did, I don't know the situation my parents would be if they heard this kind of news because they've adviced me enough, please don't be offended I didn't give u an insight of what transpired,I need your prayers and also God's forgiveness. THANK YOU GOD FORGIVE US ALL
Is it possible for a governor to sponsor attacks on the people he is leading and would definitely need their votes ?
Its unimaginable, but Sadly, true. As we speak, that is what Elrufai is doing in Kajuru; no doubt.
Anyone who cares, or feels otherwise should go to Kajuru in Kaduna State to see, feel, and touch the genocide sponsored and commissioned by elfufai using state resources and machinery. I will welcome the result of his/her independent investigations.
At the appropriate time Elrufai will be exposed and justice will take it's fullest course.
"No evil deed can go unpunished, any evil done by man to man will be redressed, if not by man then by God, if not now certainly later….for the victory of evil over good can only be emphemeral". Dele Giwa.
I don't understand again, how on earth then did Buhari gat all the votes in Kano and Kaduna.
You won't understand because you don't have capacity to understand.
Why mentioning Buhari in this election?
Is Buhari contesting gubernatorial election?
If you don't know politics, elections, and voting, learn from the North. They vote locally and nationally based on merit and circumstances. No two elections are the same.
creektownnews: Without rigging, El Rufail and Ganduje won't win.
Meanwhile, see untold story of Prophet Iginla and Pastor Chris divorce. All you need to know and detailed analysis of Pastor Chris Oyakilome and Prophet Iginla infidelity and adultery charges.
All you nairalanders, pdp e-warrior, relogious, tribal & regional bigots, children of hate & bile, unpatriotic & unconscionable rebels, be informed: the people of Kajuru, or other parts of the North, for this matter, do not ask for your sympathy in their trying times; It means nothing to them. They don't ask for your money, you can't give them. They don't court your favour you have none to give them. They don't need your empathy, you have no conscience to empathize. The only thing you have is hate and insults to give, give as much as you can, but that will not change the self-imposed unwarranted physical, emotional, and spirutual burden of pain you bear because of your poor upbringing and deliberate lack of knowledge, understanding and wisdom. You will continue in your self-imposed state of helplessness for the rest of your miserable lives until you repent from your willful ignorance of national ethos, enthusiasm and hate.
teemanbastos: I wonder if it isn't the same set of people that attend rallies of the two parties, and if not, then filling up a stadium actually is achieved by mobilizing people across the state which is easy to achieve with good logistics but then
Crowds never matters! What matters is voting on the D-day
But the crowd to fill a stadium is actually a small fraction of the number of voters in any state, except for few states like ekiti and bayelsa. Hypothetically, for instance, in a state with 1,000,000 voters, only about 80,000 are required to fill a stadium to the brim. 920,000 voters are still out there going about their duties and waiting for voting day. That's why stadium crowds do not determine voting patterns in reality.
Southeast always looking for relevance; always gate crashing to identify with someone else's success.
Of all the states and zones that voted what is Southeast trying to achieve by publicizing that most (not all) of their delegates voted for Atiku in a vote that is supposed to be secret?
Onogiede: 5% is far better & appreciate than 1million terrorists,.. 5% feed u & make naija still one entity if u don't know
This picture betrays a lot of ignorance and a mischievous attempt to the incite the gullible, lazy social media.
For those who may wish to know, for free,
First the rumored refinery in katsina state is not a government project; and PMB has no financial interest in it.
Secondly, the crude oil feedstock for the refinery is not expected from the Niger delta, or in any part of Nigeria. If such refinery is eventually established, constructed, and operated, it will obtain it's feedstock from the nearby Agadem basin, (about 45km) from Katsina, where there's abundant crude oil reserves that seems stranded due to challenge of evacuation. That oil is far cheaper than the Niger delta crude due to relative cheaper operational costs.
Like I said before, thisisxplaination is for those who may wish to know some facts on the rumored refinery.
rahazaqa: Saraki made a big mistake, mostly aligning with the SE, he forgot they have no electoral or political value in present Nigeria. Tambuwal is even ahead of him by far, this shows Saraki is just a local Kwara politician with no strategy but noise and show offs. Atiku, an intelligent man has been working underground, gathering support and connect, made Gbenga Daniel his campain DG, he knows the SW understands the game better, if you have the SW and the north, nothing can stop you, he learnt this from the GMB. Honestly, i had hoped Saraki would win so that he can be embarrassed in February(SE and little part of North cannot win you a presidential election) but now, this is a big fight for GMB, if Atiku can pick a running mate from the SS (SE will automatically support the person, some votes in SW too.).
Buhari all the way!
Honestly, I wished Saraki won so that it will be a work over for PMB.
Now it's going to be a contest; a fight.
But PMB will triumph.
** Note I've not mentioned PDP or APC!! Effectively, those entities are not issues in this contest. They may be vehicles, platforms, or called by whatever nomenclature.
From what premium time has posted, it is clear PDP has lost the election in Osun state. That is the only reason they did not post the results of Osogbo LGC. There is no reason they will obtain and publish all the other 29 LG results; even those remote from the state capital. It is curious. PDP have lost woefully in the state capital and it had erased the slim margin they enjoy from stronghold areas. That is why premium times cunningly and mischievously refused publish the final result of Osogbo, just to create a sort of apprehension and doubt in the hearts of unsuspecting online gullibles.
afangsoup: You're not an Urban and Regional planner, you are not a highway planner/designer/surveyor/engineer, you are not an authority in urban circulatory networks you haven't carried out proper research on what makes these roads experience delays, your write up is based on mere say and here-say which isn't objective, not factual and isn't scientifically proven, and don't bridge knowledge gap and can't proffer solutions to the challenges posed.
Consult a qualified town planner who's a highway specialist to explain better.
Cheers!
This is a good response to this post. we must be able to speak from a professional point of view, not from some intuitive or reactive reasoning; otherwise, our conclusions will be myopic, or at best, parochial.
I think the challenge is that of narrow roads, not the medians. The medians are not responsible for the narrow roads. That's how the roads were designed. If due to dynamics of development the need to tinker with the existing design arises, then we can call on the professionals for necessary advise.
Highbrow: Some weeks ago I had a hard time convincing a girl to date me. It was hard convincing her because I told her from the beginning I already had a girlfriend and that was because she asked. She eventually agreed to be my side chick after giving me a hard time. Using this thread, I want to discuss 5 reasons women become side chicks.
1 FINANCIAL SECURITY This is probably the number one reason women become side chicks. The lure of financial health is too tempting to reject. Isn't it better to be financially stable as a side chick than not to be as the main chick, for a certain period of time?
2 THE MAN'S ALLURING PERSONALITY Some men are blessed with an alluring personality that is an envy of women. Some women so feel a sense of achievement going out with a man with an alluring personality that they see it as a thing of pride. Among other women, they talk about it and express their pride.
3 THE THRILL Some women just feel the extra thrill that comes with dating another women's men. This extra thrill is their incentive.
4 FREEDOM Other women enjoy the freedom to go out with other guys whenever they want to. A woman is free to quit the relationship without much ado too.
5 LONELINESS When a woman is lonely as a result of a lack of a lover, she might want to be a side chick.
Agriculture / Re: Tigernuts In Large Quantity by jaybee(f): 1:59pm On Mar 26, 2019 