Closing Indigenous Manpower Gap in Oil and Gas Industry in Niger Delta for Sustainable Peace through Local Content Act

This paper examines how the indigenous manpower development objective in the Nigeria Local Content (LCA) Act can bring about sustainable industrial peace in the Nigerian petroleum sector and the Niger Delta. The paper discovered that NLCAct is driven by the vital role oil sector plays in the Nigerian economy; the huge amount in foreign currency spent in servicing the industry vis-a-vis the small revenue earned due to poor manpower and its induced conflict among others on the industry. Secondly, that indigenous manpower objective in NLC, Act if extended to the Niger Delta region will serve as a valid therapy to bring about peace both to the industry and Niger Delta region as the intent of the former is one of the cardinal issues in Niger delta crisis. Based on these, the work recommends that there should be a data base of available skills among other options by the state governments in the region. These governments will then liaise with companies in the industry and the communities for proper job placement and that the government should go unto aggressive skill acquisition programme for the youth. Dr. Dokubo, Isaac Nwojiewho | Dr. Maduawuchi Elem"Closing Indigenous Manpower Gap in Oil and Gas Industry in Niger Delta for Sustainable Peace through Local Content Act" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-1 | Issue-6 , October 2017, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd3558.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/other-scientific-research-area/enviormental-science/3558/closing-indigenous-manpower-gap-in-oil-and-gas-industry-in-niger-delta-for-sustainable--peace-through-local-content-act/dr-dokubo-isaac-nwojiewho