The Nation Newspaper

Tag: summit

  • NUPENG calls for summit on oil theft

    The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has called for a stakeholders summit comprising  ship owners, DAPPMAN, Police, Army, Navy, NNPC, DSS, DPR, Civil Defence Corps, NUPENG and PENGASSAN to fashion out a new strategy to end oil theft and pipelines vandalism.

    The President of NUPENG, Comrade Igwe Achese made this statement during a courtesy call on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen Tukur Buratai, in Abuja. Comrade Achese said NUPENG as a major stakeholder was worried about the incessant vandalisation and oil theft which has led to huge loses to the nation’s economy. He promised to collaborate with the army to end the scourge.

    Comrade Achese also drew the attention of the Chief of Army Staff to the attitude of some soldiers who harass and disturb tanker drivers performing their Lawful duties in the haulage of petroleum products to various parts of the country.

    Lt.-Gen Buratai said the army was on top of Boko Haram situation. He added that he ordered the commander of the Military Police to check the harassment of tanker drivers and he was also going to meet with NIMASA on ways to check oil theft.

    The Chief of Army Staff advised NUPENG to always explore the use of dialogue instead of shutting down the nation whenever they had any grievances.

  • COSON holds digital music summit

    COSON holds digital music summit

    THE Federal Government has been urged to implement the provisions of the Copyright Order, 2012 to compensate right owners for the private copying of their works. The call was made at the Nigerian Digital Music Summit held on Tuesday at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos.

    Convened by the Copyright Society of Nigeria with the theme; Establishing the Basic Rules of Engagement in the Digital Environment, the two-day event provided an opportunity for key players in the production and distribution of music to engage with copyright experts from around the world to deliberate on the rules of engagement in the digital environment so as to ensure that practitioners who are involved in the value chain in Nigeria get a fair deal and to guarantee the stability and sustainable growth of the Nigerian music industry.

    Papers were presented by experts on various topics, including: Understanding How the Digital Music Business Works in Nigeria by Mr. Audu Maikori; Aggregating Music for the Digital Market Place by Mr. Lawrence Wilbert; The Digital Music Market Place and Copyright by Mrs. Tarja Koskinen-Olsson; Digital Music Licensing: Current Issues by Mrs. Inger Elise Mey; Monetization of the Digital Exploitation of Musical Works and Sound Recordings as it Affects Creators and Publishers, Performers and Record Companies by Mr. Rob Hooijer; Employment Opportunities in a Structured Music Industry by Mr. Yunusa S. Labaran; and Monetising Music in the Internet Age: The CAPASSO South Africa Experience by Ms. Nothando Migogo.

    At the end of the summit, a fifteen point resolution was adopted by the participants. The resolutions which cover a wide range of issues that affect the music industry, among other things, urged the Nigerian Copyright Commission to take into cognizance the emerging platforms and the challenges of exploitation in the digital environment and provide a clear, simple and functional licensing regime on these platforms.

    Participants at the Summit included musicians, music producers, label owners, copyright administrators, rights managers, music aggregators, telecommunications companies, legal practitioners, advertising practitioners and government officials.

  • SNEPCo hosts summit

    Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company of Ni-geria Limited (SNEPCo) hosted a business summit in Aberdeen last week with over 270 personnel representing Nigerian companies within and outside the country in attendance.

    They explored opportunities to repatriate skills and experience to the oil and gas industry back home in Nigeria.

    The forum titled: ‘The global Nigerian’ is the third in Europe’s oil and gas hub, and had the theme Networking and Collaboration as a tool for national Development and Growth.

    SNEPCo Managing Director Tony Attah in his address, said: “When, in 2013, we set out with the initiative for local companies to collaborate with Nigerian experts in Aberdeen on opportunities and challenges in the Nigeria oil and gas industry, we knew this would be a game changer. Today, we can say that the game changer is beginning to take shape as Nigerians have started returning home to set up businesses.”

    A representative of the Nigerian High Commission, Mr. Hassan Hassan said: “This is the right time for our experts based abroad to return home to make contribution and be part of the success story.”  The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Denzil Kentebe commended Shell on both The Global Nigerian and Partnership Facilitation Programme and confirmed the board’s continuing support for both initiatives.

    In a presentation on procedures for potential contractors in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, the Deputy Manager, Reservoir Management and Evaluation, Joint Venture oil operations, at the Nigerian National Petroleum Investment and Management Services (NAPIMS), Mrs. Martina Atuchi, said: “We are inviting you to be part of the leading economy in Africa with a lot of untapped hydrocarbon resources.”

    The General Manager, Nigerian Content Development, Shell Nigeria, Chiedu Oba gave a progress report on the decisions of The Global Nigerian since the first business summit in Aberdeen in 2013. He said several Nigerians had returned home to establish businesses in the oil and gas sector, while networking had continued on a collaboration portal which recorded more than 12,000 visitors every month by the 60 registered companies and users.

    The participants agreed that the return of a significant number of Nigerian oil and gas professionals could make a ‘game changing’ impact on the efficient delivery of many opportunities that exist in the upstream, mid-stream and downstream sectors. They also suggested the need for low interest rates to boost the growth of the companies.

    The Global Nigerian 2015 was enthusiastically supported by government and industry leaders including representatives from Nigeria’s leading oil and gas trade organisation, PETAN and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).

  • 270 Nigerian experts seek opportunities at SNEPCo’s summit

    Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company of Nigeria Limited (SNEPCo) hosted a business summit in Aberdeen last week with over 270 personnel representing Nigerian companies within and outside the country in attendance. They explored opportunities to repatriate skills and experience to the oil and gas industry back home in Nigeria.

    The forum christened ‘The Global Nigerian’ is the third in Europe’s oil and gas hub, and had the theme Networking and Collaboration as a tool for national Development and Growth.

    SNEPCo Managing Director Tony Attah in his address, said: “When, in 2013, we set out with the initiative for local companies to collaborate with Nigerian experts in Aberdeen on opportunities and challenges in the Nigeria oil and gas industry, we knew this would be a game changer. Today, we can say that the game changer is beginning to take shape as Nigerians have started returning home to set up businesses.”

    A representative of the Nigerian High Commission, Mr. Hassan Hassan said: “This is the right time for our experts based abroad to return home to make contribution and be part of the success story.”  The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Denzil Kentebe commended Shell on both The Global Nigerian and Partnership Facilitation Programme and confirmed the board’s continuing support for both initiatives.

    In a presentation on procedures for potential contractors in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria, the Deputy Manager, Reservoir Management and Evaluation, Joint Venture oil operations, at the Nigerian National Petroleum Investment and Management Services (NAPIMS), Mrs. Martina Atuchi said: “We are inviting you to be part of the leading economy in Africa with a lot of untapped hydrocarbon resources.”

    The General Manager, Nigerian Content Development, Shell Nigeria, Chiedu Oba gave a progress report on the decisions of The Global Nigerian since the first business summit in Aberdeen in 2013. He said several Nigerians had returned home to establish businesses in the oil and gas sector, while networking had continued on a collaboration portal which recorded more than 12,000 visitors every month by the 60 registered companies and users.

    The participants agreed that the return of a significant number of Nigerian oil and gas professionals could make a ‘game changing’ impact on the efficient delivery of many opportunities that exist in the upstream, mid-stream and downstream sectors. They also suggested the need for low interest rates to boost the growth of the companies.

    The Global Nigerian 2015 was enthusiastically supported by government and industry leaders including representatives from Nigeria’s leading oil and gas trade organisation, PETAN and UK Trade and Investment (UKTI).

  • Ekiti plans education summit

    Ekiti plans education summit

    Ekiti State Governor Ayo Fayose has announced plans for an education summit to enable stakeholders join hands with his administration to restore the lost glory of education in the state.

    Fayose is optimistic the summit, to be chaired by a former Chief Judge and the Oluyin of Iyin Ekiti, Oba John Ademola Ajakaye, would reaffirm the state’s target as the “Fountain of Knowledge” and the ‘torchbearer of education’ in Nigeria.

    At a pre-summit parley with stakeholders at Olaoluwa Muslim Grammar School, Ado Ekiti, Fayose expressed shock at the colossal failure of pupils of public schools in major entrance examinations.

    Stakeholders, who attended the parley, included the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS), Conference of Primary School Heads of Nigeria (COPSHON), and National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS).

    Fayose explained that the summit would address basic education, which he described as the foundation, adding that there was the need to get it right from there.

    Fayose disclosed that he had invited prominent individuals from the academia who are indigenes of the state in addition to other experts to present papers and fashion out a blueprint.

    He promised to implement the recommendations of the summit to make his administration formulate policies that would turn around the sector.

    Fayose recalled that he held a similar summit in his first term as governor in 2003, noting that the decision resulted in Ekiti rising from 35th position in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to the sevent position before he left office in 2006.

    He said the education sector  has deteriorated to the extent that some undergraduates find it difficult to express themselves in simple  English.

    The governor also lamented a situation in which many parents had abdicated their children’s responsibilities to the government.

    He said there was a time he wanted to assist an applicant to secure a job in a bank but the candidate was rejected because the bank had just come up with a policy not to employ first degree holders which he described as a “common academic certificate.”

    Fayose pledged to give teachers a better welfare package, identifying them as moulders of the future generation and drivers of education policy given their closeness to pupils.

    He urged parents to stop spending money on frivolities and invest more in the education of their children.

     

  • NESG summit to focus on growth

    The Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), a private sector funded think-tank, in partnership with its public sector counterpart, the National Planning Commission (NPC) is set to host the 21st Nigerian Economic Summit.

    Secretary, National Planning Commission, Bassey Akpanyung, said the summit has become the largest and most prestigious annual economic forum for policy makers and captain s of industry from the public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy, as well as representatives of the academia, civil society organizations and development partners.

    It provides a unique opportunity for the participants to interact and share thoughts on the key issues and challenges facing the Nigerian economy, with a view to evolving a common strategy and policy frame work for addressing them.

    The programme is scheduled to take place from 13th – 15th October in, Abuja. The theme of the summit is: “Tough Choices: Achieving Competitiveness, inclusive Growth and Sustainability”.

    Akpanyung said the summit is coming at a unique time in the history of Nigeria when regardless of recent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rebasing exercise which placed the country as Africa’s foremost economic power.

    He explained that with the estimated GDP of $536 billion in 2014; the current macroeconomic space is characterized by a continuous decline in international oil prices, weakened public finances, foreign exchange crisis, weak institutions, insecurity weak infrastructure and high youth unemployment rates with attendant negative impacts on the nation’s competitiveness index.

    The summit will examine and facilitate stakeholders’ consensus on the tough choices that need to be made in order to achieve competitiveness and inclusive growth in a sustainable way, through measureable outcomes.

    It is therefore expected that the summit conclusions will be crucial in defining the agenda that will help in making Nigeria’s socio-economic environment globally competitive. The summit has been structured to include presidential policy dialogue where His Excellency, President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to lead a conversation which will focus on key strategic elements required to make Nigeria globally competitive.

  • Amosun, others call for summit

    Amosun, others call for summit

    Ogun state Governor Senator Ibikune Amosun and public relations practitioners have called for a national reputation summit.

    They spoke during a colloquium and awards by the Ogun State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) at the Olusegun Obasanjo Library, Abeokuta, the state capital.

    The keynote speaker, Mr. Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, who is also the chief executive, CMC Connect Group, noted the political history of Nigeria, analysing the primordial factors that have affected its image and goodwill since independence. He said the nation had suffered serious image problem as a result of the decay in the system, adding that it has denied the country of her pivotal place in the comity of progressive nations.

    Badejo-Okusanya, who is also the Secretary-General, African Public Relations Association (APPRA), identified impunity as the bane of Nigeria’s socio-political and economic development. Nigeria, he said, “has suffered moral bankruptcy as a result of corruption that permeates every facet of our lives.”

    He praised President Muham-madu Buhari for making genuine efforts at eradicating graft and corruption in government.

    He also supported the summit, saying it would create a forum for stakeholders and communications to find solutions to the already battered image of the country.

    The chairman of the colloquium, Prof Lai Osho of the Department of Mass Communications, Lagos State University (LASU), said: “The nation is going through a rebirth in the way we think, the way we do things, and in our attitude.’

    He added that Buhari has brought sanity back to governance.

    Amosun, represented by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Yetunde  Onanuga, praised the Chairman of the state chapter of NIPR, Mr. Tope Adaramola and his executives for creating a platform for cross fertilisation of ideas on how to make Nigeria better.

    He emphasised that the Change mantra of the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), has been the driver of the successes recorded in two months of the Buhari government.

    He called for attitudinal change among Nigerians to make the Nigerian project work.

  • Amosun, others call for national reputation summit

    Amosun, others call for national reputation summit

    Ogun state Governor Senator Ibikune Amosun and public relations practitioners have called for a national reputation summit.

    They spoke during a colloquium and awards by the Ogun State Chapter of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) at the Olusegun Obasanjo Library, Abeokuta, the state capital.

    The keynote speaker, Mr. Yomi Badejo-Okusanya, who is also the chief executive, CMC Connect Group, noted the political history of Nigeria, analysing the primordial factors that have affected its image and goodwill since independence. He said the nation had suffered serious image problem as a result of the decay in the system, adding that it has denied the country of her pivotal place in the comity of progressive nations.

    Badejo-Okusanya, who is also the Secretary-General, African Public Relations Association (APPRA), identified impunity as the bane of Nigeria’s socio-political and economic development. Nigeria, he said, “has suffered moral bankruptcy as a result of corruption that permeates every facet of our lives.”

    He praised President Muham-madu Buhari for making genuine efforts at eradicating graft and corruption in government.

    He also supported the summit, saying it would create a forum for stakeholders and communications to find solutions to the already battered image of the country.

    The chairman of the colloquium, Prof Lai Osho of the Department of Mass Communications, Lagos State University (LASU), said: “The nation is going through a rebirth in the way we think, the way we do things, and in our attitude.’

    He added that Buhari has brought sanity back to governance.

    Amosun, represented by the Deputy Governor, Mrs Yetunde  Onanuga, praised the Chairman of the state chapter of NIPR, Mr. Tope Adaramola and his executives for creating a platform for cross fertilisation of ideas on how to make Nigeria better.

    He emphasised that the Change mantra of the ruling political party, All Progressives Congress (APC), has been the driver of the successes recorded in two months of the Buhari government.

    He called for attitudinal change among Nigerians to make the Nigerian project work.

     

  • Nigerian, UK firms explore opportunities at Shell’s business summit

    A total of 100 delegates representing 56 companies from Nigeria and the United Kingdom explored opportunities for collaboration at the annual Nigeria-UK Supplier Engagement programme organised by Shell Nigeria Exploration Company Limited (SNEPCo) in conjunction with the United Kingdom Trade and Investment (UKTI).

    The event which held in Lagos weekend, according to Shell’s Corporate Media Relations Manager Precious Okolobo brought together companies engaged in a wide variety of activities in the oil and gas industry including engineering, maintenance, fabrication and subsea support services. The UK delegation, which included Nigerian experts in the diaspora who SNEPCo had reached in previous business summits in Aberdeen and London, first met with Shell Companies in Nigeria companies on areas of need and technical gaps.

  • ‘Summit organisers are PDP stooges’

    The Senator representing Osun East, Babajide Omoworare, has described the organisers of the proposed summit on education and the financial status of Osun State holding today as stooges of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

    In a statement by his media aide, Tunde Dairo, the senator said this was one of several moves by the PDP and its agents to destabilise the peace and political tranquility in the state.

    According to him, the PDP is hiding under “an emergency and politically conjured group, calling itself Osun Stakeholders”.

    He maintained that the group is a front organisation of the PDP, adding that the “conveners of the summit are the party’s agents being used to fight a dirty cause”.

    “Nothing necessitated the summit except being a forum to execute plans targeted at frustrating the Aregbesola administration.

    “The financial stress in Osun is not peculiar to the state. It is a direct result of the economic cluelessness of the PDP controlled Federal Government.

    “We recognise the right of groups and associations under whatever appellation, including the PDP, to assemble, but this latest move by the so-called stakeholders is capable of resulting in treason.”