 The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is set to collaborate with the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) towards ensuring that Nigeria is well-placed on the path of economic growth and development.
GMD NNPC, Engr Austen Oniwon, who was represented by the GED R & P, Engr Phillip Chukwu revealed this while receiving a delegation of the Group which paid a courtesy call on the Corporation, today.
“We firmly believe in the collaborative platform presented us by the NESG which is basically towards strengthening Nigeria’s march to economic greatness. We assure you of our support all the time,” the GMD said.
According to him, the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) which is still awaiting passage at the National Assembly was to enable the NNPC become a commercially-viable entity as well as stand shoulder to shoulder with its global peers in the oil industry.
He said the NNPC is expected to play a critical role in the Federal Government’s gas-to-power policy by ensuring enough
gas supply. “More jobs will be created and Nigerians will be empowered,” he added.
Speaking earlier, the NESG Director General, Mr Frank Nweke Jnr, who was represented by the MD of ValuCard, Mr Kyari Bukar thanked the NNPC for its continuous support for the activities of the organisation over the years.
He described oil and gas as one of the key policy commissions of the group stressing that there was the need for the NNPC to take a leading role in that regard.
He told the NNPC Management that the Group’s 17th Summit is expected to hold from September 6th to 8th later this year at the Transcorp Hilton in Abuja with the theme“Putting Nigeria to work: Reinforcing partnerships for political and economic development.”
According to Bukar, the NESG is an independent, non-partisan, non-sectarian organization, commited to fostering open and continous dialogue on Nigeria’s economic development.
It seeks to define and facilitate the implementation of an economic agenda that will help create an environment conducive to good governance, responsible private sector investment and sustainable private sector-driven economic growth and development.
The NESG was incorporated in 1996 as a not-for-profit partisan private sector organization with a mandate to promote and champion the reform of the Nigerian economy into an open, private sector-led, globally competitive economy.
The incorporation followed three years of successive convening of the Nigerian Economic Summit (NES) by a group of concerned private sector leaders, who conceived the idea of a summit as a platform for bringing together private sector leaders and senior public sector officials to discuss and dialogue on the future of the Nigerian economy.
In pursuing its mandate, the NESG aims to help create an enabling environment conducive to good governance, responsible private sector investment and sustainable economic growth and development.
Tuesday, 22nd June, 2011.
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