NUPRC faces backlash over ‘two-day training’ for oil block licence winners

Nigerians person criticised the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, implicit its program to organise 2 days of grooming for awardees of Petroleum Prospecting Licences, PPLs.

DAILY POST reports that NUPRC announced the planned grooming for PPL awardees successful a connection posted connected X.

According to the commission, the grooming was intended to trim the fig of idle lipid blocks resulting from awardees’ deficiency of commercialized oregon method capabilities.

Reacting to the announcement, immoderate Nigerians took to the commission’s remark conception connected X to explicit concerns astir the projected training.

An X idiosyncratic identified arsenic Tyro questioned the rationale down the training.

"It is from the mundane mean things that you get to decently recognize Nigeria. Drilling a heavy h2o good costs astatine slightest $100m but present is the regulator inviting licence winners to travel for a 2 time “training”. Who has $100m to walk (with nary warrant of success) and needs “training” connected what to bash next? From this we tin infer the benignant of radical who person been awarded the licences", helium wrote connected X.

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Another X user, identified arsenic Peter, wrote:

"The main occupation is that this ''training'' has...