{"id":6244,"date":"2024-01-23T16:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/?p=6244"},"modified":"2024-01-23T16:01:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:01:57","slug":"more-ugandans-employed-in-oil-sector-minister-nnkabirwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2024\/01\/23\/more-ugandans-employed-in-oil-sector-minister-nnkabirwa\/","title":{"rendered":"More Ugandans Employed in Oil Sector- Minister Nnkabirwa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah BBAALE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">At least nine out of every 10 people employed in the oil gas sector is a Ugandan, Ruth Nankabirwa, the minister of Energy and Mineral Development has revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">\u201cThis is testament to our efforts to support more Uganda\u2019s to find employment in the sector. We continue to maintain a National Talent Register where all employable Ugandans are registered,\u201d the Minister said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">On the supply of goods and services, Minister Nankabirwa says 36 per cent ($1.914 billion) of the $7.1 billion approved investments, is committed to Ugandan Companies during development phase. On the supply of goods and services, 36 per cent of the approved investments of is committed to Ugandan Companies during development phase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">\u201cThis is closely approaching our target of national content at 40 per cent for this phase of development. Approximately $11.9 million has gone to the community economy through provision of goods and services.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">\u201cThis is closely approaching our target of national content at 40 per cent for this phase of development. Approximately $11,909,641 has gone to the community economy through provision of goods and services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt;font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif\">She made the remarks during the annual media briefing on the country\u2019s oil sector held n Kampala on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah BBAALE At least nine out of every 10 people employed in the oil gas sector is a Ugandan, Ruth Nankabirwa, the minister of Energy and Mineral Development has revealed. \u201cThis is testament to our efforts to support more Uganda\u2019s to find employment in the sector. We continue to maintain a National Talent Register [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6247,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national","8":"category-oil-and-gas"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244","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=6244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6244\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}