How will the PIB directly impact on the host communities of the oil and gas industries in Nigeria?
The Bill mandates oil and gas companies operating in Nigeria to be guided strictly by the PIB Local Infrastructural Development and Maintenance Guidelines. It also stipulates for a Mandatory Consultation with host communities in the development of infrastructure and all related development initiative under SCR to be undertaken by company operating in an area. The bill mandates that all Oil and Gas companies must ensure support for educational and skill acquisition training programmes for indigenes of the host communities. The sole aim is essential to create a highly skilled manpower as well as provide the unskilled persons with skills that would provide employment for them, especially, in the operational segments of the oil and gas industry.
