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Closing Indigenous Manpower Gap in Oil and Gas Industry in Niger Delta for Sustainable Peace through Local Content Act

This paper examines how the indigenous manpower development objective in the Nigeria Local Content (LCA) Act can bring about sustainable industrial peace in the Nigerian petroleum sector and the Niger Delta.The paper discovered that NLCAct is driven by the vital role oil sector plays in the Nigerian economy; the huge amount in foreign currency spent in servicing the industry vis-a-vis the small revenue earned due to poor manpower and its induced conflict among others on the industry.Secondly, that indigenous manpower objective in NLC, Act if extended to the Niger Delta region will serve as a v…