The Minister of State for
Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, has revealed that the Federal Government would from 2018,
stop sponsorship of delegates to the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC).
The minister said that 250
delegates from Nigeria attended the 2016 edition of the conference while 50
delegates attended the 2017 edition.
He pledged to work hard to ensure
that the number was reduced to 20 in 2018.
“There will no longer be
sponsorship for delegates to the OTC except for technical experts,” he said.
Kachikwu said that anyone that
wants to attend the conference in future should sponsor himself.
Declaring open Nigeria’s pavilion
at the exhibition centre, Kachikwu said that deliberations at this year’s
conference was expected to produce workable solutions that would impact on
Nigeria’s development.
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