CareerAlert: BW Offshore Company

BW Offshore is a world leading provider of Floating Production services. We design, build, install, Lease and operate Oil and Gas FPSOs (Floating, Production, Storage and Offloading). 
 BW Offshore operates 17 units worldwide (16 FPSOs and 1 FSO) and has been present in Nigeria since 1997.

BW Offshore is strengthening the team in Nigeria and we are seeking experienced technical professionals from the Offshore Production, Maritime, Chemical or Power sector to join our team.

If you have relevant experience and want to Leverage your knowledge and skills while operating offshore production assets in the role below, we welcome your application:

CBN restates stance on BVN for forex transactions

ABUJA — The CBN has said that the Bank Verification Number, BVN, requirement for foreign exchange transactions posed no security risks to the bank accounts of those purchasing forex.

Customers besiege banks as BVN registration deadlines expires

Spokesman of the bank, Alhaji Ibrahim Mu’azu, said in a statement in Abuja, yesterday, that the excuses by critics of the policy were unfounded and that the requirement would therefore stay.

Below is the full statement: “The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) recently mandated all banks and licensed Bureaux de Change (BDCs) operating in Nigeria to provide Bank Verification Numbers (BVN) as part of the requirement for the sale of foreign exchange to their customers.

“It has, however, come to our notice that some customers are reluctant in disclosing their BVN to authorised dealers and buyers because of claims that there are attendant risks to the disclosure.

“It is, therefore, imperative for the bank to make the following clarifications:

“The adoption of BVN as a condition for the purchase of FOREX is expected to reduce the incidence of multiple purchases, round tripping and illicit transfer of funds, facilitate enforcement of authorized limits of forex sales to end users, sanitize the retail segment of the market and engender policies that will facilitate better allocation of the forex, based on genuine demands.

“The BVN is neither a payment instrument nor an account number and, therefore, could not be used to access any account by unauthorized users. The banks, BDC operators and even regulators use the BVN to validate the identity of a customer using some biometric information such as fingerprints and photograph obtained at the point of enrolment.

“For the avoidance of doubt, the provision of BVN by customers at the point of forex purchase or for any legitimate banking transaction with any of the above named institutions does not attract any security risk. Rather it protects the customer against identify theft.”

By Emma Ujah, Abuja Bureau Chief

APC plans forceful take-over of Rivers, A-Ibom in re-run polls —Senator Okon

By Tom Moses & Chioma Onuegbu 

UYO—Elders and major stakeholders of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State have accused the All Progressives Congress, APC, of plans to forcefully take over the state and Rivers State in the re-run elections in the two PDP-controlled states. Speaking through Senator Anietie Okon, at a briefing in Uyo, in reaction to media reports of November 4, 2015 credited to the Imo State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, that “Rivers and Akwa Ibom states are very strategic to APC”, warned that any attempt by the APC to subvert the collective will of the Akwa Ibom people as manifestly expressed in the April 11, 2015 governorship election, would be resisted.

 According to him: “When the APC talks about Akwa Ibom and Rivers states as being strategic to their objectives, it appears it is their ravenous and ghoulish intent to take over Akwa Ibom State by force and that implies that there is a determination by them to break all the rules and break all the laws and through subjugation, conquer the Akwa Ibom people. It will not happen. We are not surprised given the document that is credited to the APC where they detailed their plans to trample upon the express will of the people by their chaotic, riotous and contradictory process that have been handed down through the tribunal.”

Buhari to ministers-designate: Join hands to restore Nigeria’s lost glory

ABUJA — President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, called on his ministers-designate to join hands with him and restore the lost glory of Nigeria in all spheres after they must have been sworn in as substantive ministers.

President Muhammadu Buhari (1st right) and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo ( 2nd left), during the 2-day ministers-designate retreat at Presidential Villa in Abuja.

He said expectations were high from his government, stressing that they must collectively live up to the challenge of meeting the demands of Nigerians.

The president made the call while addressing the 36 ministers-designate at a retreat organized by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, in Abuja.

While congratulating the appointees on their successful screening and confirmation by the Senate, President Buhari, however, asked them to count themselves privileged to be called for national service among millions of Nigerians.

According to Buhari, the retreat marked the first contact of the designates to the machinery of government, urging them to work as a team.

He said: “It is with great pleasure that I address you today, my ministers-designate, at this retreat in preparation for your swearing-in as the cabinet that will run this administration. We must count ourselves privileged to have been chosen among millions of our compatriots at this historic time to be the instruments that will deliver the change we have promised.

“Let me congratulate you for your success at the various levels of screening that culminated in your confirmation by the Senate.