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http://ift.tt/2q9RCmK PHOTO: BLOOMBERG The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has advised local engineers to take advantage of the Content Development Act by dominating the nation’s oil and gas industry before 2022. Mr Simbi Wabote, Executive Secretary of the board, gave the advice at a panel discussion organised by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Victoria Island Branch on Saturday in Lagos. The theme of the discussion was “National Content: Achievements, Challenges and Sustainability in the Context of Dwindling Oil Price’’. Wabote, who was represented by the board’s Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr Tunde Adelana, said local engineers could successfully drive the oil and gas sector. He identified skill gap as the reason expatriates dominated the oil and gas industry, stressing the need for skill transfer for local engineers to take over. He, therefore, emphasised the need for local engineers to acquire needed skills to reverse the ex...

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Italy will open new detention centres across the country in the next few months as part of its push to speed up deportations of illegal migrants, inspite of critics saying that the centers are not only inhumane but also do not produce the desired result. Violent protests and difficulty identifying migrants has led to the closure of similar centres over the past few years, but on Tuesday the Interior Ministry asked regional governments to provide a total of 1,600 beds in such centres. Interior Minister Marco Minniti says migrants must be detained to stop them from slipping away before they can be sent home. The plans include reopening one for men at Ponte Galeria on the outskirts of Rome where migrants had sewed their mouths shut in protest before it was destroyed by interned migrants in 2015. Over the weekend, Reuters journalists visited the still-open female section of the Ponte Galeria center, and spoke to three Nigerian women. All have applied for asylum f...