{"id":4320,"date":"2023-01-20T15:54:31","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2023-01-20T15:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T15:55:12","slug":"over-5000-ugandans-employed-in-oil-gas-sector-minister-nankabirwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2023\/01\/20\/over-5000-ugandans-employed-in-oil-gas-sector-minister-nankabirwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 5,000 Ugandans Employed in Oil and Gas Sector- Minister Nankabirwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4322 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content-900x600.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/Promo-Website-Website-landscape-content.jpeg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa has revealed that a total of 6,233 people were as of November 2022 employed in the oil and gas sector. Out of these, 94% about 5,875 were jobs given to Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting a statement on oil and gas sector performance for last year and outlook for 2023, Nankabirwa observed that licenses directly employed 506 people, 70% of whom are Ugandans, while their contractors and subcontractors employed 5,647 people, 97% of whom are Ugandans.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the skilling of Ugandan nationals and enterprises for business and employment opportunities, Nankabirwa says over 11,000 Ugandans have been trained for the last six years, 2017-2022, in both the vocational and technical aspects of the sector.<\/p>\n<p>About 940 Ugandans have attained international industry certifications while over 200 medium and small-sized enterprises were trained in business development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale The Minister of Energy and Mineral Development, Ruth Nankabirwa has revealed that a total of 6,233 people were as of November 2022 employed in the oil and gas sector. Out of these, 94% about 5,875 were jobs given to Ugandans. Presenting a statement on oil and gas sector performance for last year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bunyoro","8":"category-national","9":"category-oil-and-gas"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4325,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}