President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed the county’s second biggest achievement in energy sector.
Buhari hailed the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which was signed into law in August 2021 as the country’s second most successful achievement recorded in the energy sector.
He made this revelation at the presidential villa while unveiling the Nigeria International Energy Summit (NIES).
The secretary to the government of the federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha, who was representing the president commended the contributions of the administration to the energy sector.
The SGF said the achievements recorded so far have been properly documented for future purposes.
“Our perspectives have provided the incoming government the tools to guide Nigerians’ energy future. I enjoin industry stakeholders to give the incoming administration the support and cooperation I received from you,” he said.
“We ensured there’s an adaptive framework for the indigenous companies to take advantage of the investment by the international oil companies.
“This has ensured that the indigenous companies grew there capacity tremendously and they are now considered for about five per cent of national oil and gas production which has led to an increase from two per cent in 2010.”
The Nigerian President who doubles as the minister of petroleum declared energy as top concern of his government till he will hand over power to another government.
“The first task we combated is the issue of funding and sanitising the oil and gas sector; we then proceeded to exit the federal government from joint registrar cash go-funding,” Buhari said.
“This freed the federal government from the shoes of funding the oil sector.
“The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) remains our second biggest achievement in energy sector. For decades, we were told that because of various vested interest it would be nearly impossible to pass the bill but we made it happen.”
Federal Civil Service Commission disowns recruitment exercise, says it’s fake
The Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC) has dissociated itself from the ongoing recruitment exercise.
The commission informed members of the public to ignore a purported “recruitment 2023/2024” exercise which was making round on social media,
The commission said it is not originator of the recruitment exercise as it described it as entirely fake.
This was revealed in a signed press statement released by the permanent secretary, Dr. Mary Ogbe.
Ogbe said the embargo earlier placed on the recruitment into the federal civil service has not been lifted by the government.
“As a sequel to the advertised story on recruitment titled “FCSC Recruitment 2023/2024’’ currently trending on the social media, the Management of the Federal Civil Service Commission wishes to inform the general public that the purported recruitment 2023/2024 exercise is a typical example of falsehood in its entirety and did not emanate from the Commission.
“The writer of this fake story, using his www.recruitmentfile.net to peddle his antics of misinforming the general public, particularly desperate job seekers, listed several steps/requirements for recruitment into the civil service; which are to say the least, confusing, misleading and disjointed: amongst which are Bank Verification Number (BVN) and disqualifying those with Physical Disability.
“Premised on the foregoing, the Federal Civil Service Commission wishes to reaffirm its earlier Disclaimer statement that the suspension/embargo on recruitment into the Federal Civil Service is yet to be lifted by the Government. Secondly, the Commission has an established tradition of using the Television/Radio stations and Newspapers to announce such an instance of national exercise; not the social media.
“Furthermore, lastly, but not the least, Bank Verification Number (BVN) and discrimination against Nigerians with Physical Disability (PWDs) are never listed among formal requirements for recruitment into the Federal Civil Service.
”For clarification and emphasis, the general public is hereby informed that the advertised recruitment on social media is untrue and should therefore be ignored and disregarded, please,” it stated.