Making impact, despite the lean times, By Dakuku Peterside
These leaders and their likes are the reasons why we still have hope in our country.
These Nigerians in the three MDAs under review are making giant strides and lasting impact. They are employing dynamism and innovation to achieve measurable results. In a nation where we celebrate ineptitude, mediocrity and crass opportunism, any genuine ray of light making an impactful difference deserves to be noted and encouraged.
Criticism makes leaders wake up, and it puts them on their toes. It is a natural component of leadership. We all acknowledge that it is always easier to criticise than to appreciate; hence Benjamin Franklin, one of America’s founding fathers and a political philosopher, had this to say, “any fool can criticise, condemn and complain and most fools do.” However, when we see flashes of creative, courageous,and competent leadership, let us celebrate and encourage them. Amid challenges of acute insecurit
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International Oil Companies operating in the country have been urged to embark on new projects despite the delay in the passage of the Petroleum Industry Bill.
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, an agency in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, said many local fabrication and manufacturing yards had been idle since the conclusion of the Total’s Egina deepwater project in 2018.
The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Mr Simbi Wabote, urged other IOCs to emulate Total Exploration and Production Company in sponsoring new projects and stop being deterred by the delayed passage of the PIB.