Raheemzee:
what of environmental students?, are we also included?

hokafor:
Lol, how many companies owned by the government are ready to absorb that number of Corp members ,perhaps some can join you in daura to manage your livestocks

Bbbwings:
For once in his life, the dullard has increased his IQ by 1

beamtopola:
Rejecting and fustrations loomin...
They re no enough firm and companies to hire these corps member. Provide these companies mr dullard.

donstan18:
Very very commendable.

This will help develop and expose them.

mayprince:
Mandates foreign engineering firms to register with COREN

By Omololu Ogunmade in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to teach.


The bill which has now become the Act of the National Assembly seeks to promote technological development in Nigeria by ensuring that trained engineers are well positioned to deploy the knowledge acquired in their various fields to the development of technology in the country.

Briefing journalists in the State House, Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, said as against the tradition of posting a large number of engineering graduates to schools by NYSC, youth corps members who are graduates of engineering must henceforth be posted only to engineering firms and other institutions that are relevant to their professional fields.

Aside prohibiting such firms from rejecting engineering graduates posted to them, the Act mandates NYSC to immediately communicate the name of any institution where an engineering graduate is posted to, for his/her primary assignment, to the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN).

Enang cited Section 14 (i and ii) of the Act which provides that “The Directorate of the National Youth Service Corps shall ensure posting of graduate engineers and technologists to places of relevant professional engineering experience.

“Pursuant to the provision of subsection (i), the Directorate of National Youth Service Corps shall communicate the location of graduate engineers and engineering technologists to the Council.’’

Furthermore, the Act prohibits any foreign engineering firm from operating in Nigeria without being duly registered in the country by COREN.

It also mandates such a foreign firm to ensure the introduction of local content into the operations of the company by employing Nigerian engineers.


Enang added: “The Act broaden engineering ‘practitioners to include a registered engineer, engineering technologist, engineering technician and engineering craftsman.’ It emphasises more on engineering practitioners as against ‘engineer.’

“The Act has been remitted in accordance with standard legal procedures. The principal Act establishes the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria – COREN’ with power vested.

“The amendment now assented to by Mr. President broadens the powers of COREN with far-reaching powers of prosecution of infractions, regulating industrial training of engineers, capacity building of local content in Nigeria engineering industry.

“Specifically, the new law grants COREN powers of: ‘prosecuting any person or firm that contravenes the provisions of this Act in a court of competent jurisdiction; regulating industrial training schemes in engineering practitioners and students; ensuring capacity building and monitoring local content development in the Nigerian engineering industry through – mandatory attachment of Nigerians to expatriate engineers on major projects to understudy them from inception; ensuring that all foreign engineering firms establish their design offices in Nigeria.”

Enang also said the new Act grants “compulsory attestation to all expatriate quota for engineering practitioners, including turnkey project, that there are no qualified and competent Nigerians for the job in question at the time of application and that granting of the expatriate quota shall be contingent on training of such number of persons as may be required for the execution of the job, and; ensuring that, before being allowed to practice in Nigeria, such foreign engineering practitioners granted work permit, register with the council and obtain such licenses as may be required from time to time; investigating engineering failures.’’


He further disclosed that the Act further authorises the admission of some engineering associations into COREN as the umbrella body of all engineers in the country.

Such associations as listed by Enang are: Nigerian Association of Technologists in Engineering, Nigerian Society of Engineering Technicians, and Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen.

According to him, the Act further authorises one person to represent in COREN, the Association for Consulting Engineering in Nigeria, Federation of Construction Industry in Nigeria, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, and Armed Forces in rotation.

“The Council is now entitled to maintain a fund into which shall be paid money appropriated by the National Assembly, subventions, fees, charges for services rendered or publications made, donations, engineering development levy, among others,” Enang added.

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/03/22/buhari-signs-bill-stopping-nysc-from-posting-engineering-graduates-to-schools/?amp

Younghacka:
Good News For Me And Other Engineering Undergraduates And Aspirants. . .
At Least This 1 Year Service Should Add To Our Work Experience And Also Increase Our Understanding Of Our Various Fields. . .
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I Just Pray That Corruption Doesn't Enter The System Anytime Soon For Selective Deployment.
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Hoping To Be Posted To NNPC Like Zaria Indimi Buhari Or At Least NCDMB

rummmy:
What about northerners that studied Islamic religion, base on the fact that they will not serve on their northern region...will bring Islam down south with them

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Jaqenhghar:

Dont hold your brearh. You will never get there. If by there you mean progress, it wont happen

teniolav:
we are there already

Trolla:
This is commendable

The guy above me abeg nau, is it every thread? rest small abeg!!! even the images you put go just big anyhow, someone will have to start scrolling upandan to see the next comment, very annoying.

anyways, as i was saying this is very commendable, many engineering firms are fond of rejecting engineering graduates,, hence the reason for posting a large no of graduates to schools, (where else will they serve), with this, nysc can post you to NBC or Dangote, and dem no born dem to refuse you, besides it just one year, you aren't permanent staff and will prolly be paid stipends, they are more or less apprentices. So i wonder why they keep rejecting such graduates, who are just looking for an avenue to kick-off their careers in the right direction

beamtopola:
Rejecting and fustrations loomin...
They re no enough firm and companies to hire these corps member. Provide these companies mr dullard.

midnighter:
Lol! they will be so happy. I remember how they used to complain about it. I used to think -_- the rest of us nko?

I hope their heads wont begin to swell because of this

Let them sign bills for the rest of us na

Modified: But maybe i misunderstood. There are different types of engineering, right?

People are saying that there arent enough companies but must all engineers work in a company?

Chemical engineers can be posted to nnpc, biotechnologists can go to labs, cant they Those people that design wheelchairs for people with spinal cord injuries and incubators for premature babies, dont they work in hospitals?

I thought engineering was a difficult and sought after course that requires robust aptitude for science and mathematics. What kind of engineering are we talking about that apparently there are so many of them that they are pouring out of the cracks in the wall?

This is a genuine question and not an insult before engineers come for me

beamtopola:
Rejecting and fustrations loomin...
They re no enough firm and companies to hire these corps member. Provide these companies mr dullard.

Arelyn:
A good initiative but the main problem is indigenous Engineering is dead a long time in the country. Engineering produces one of the largest group of graduates in Nigeria each year but you ask the question, which company is going to absorb them.

I don't really blame NYSC for posting Engineering students to schools most times because there is only a handful of indigenous engineering firms in Nigeria that can take more than one graduate engineer.

FG needs to find a way to develop the capacity of indigenous companies across all the fields of Engineering, then more space will be created for graduates to fill and that way they will be engaged better.