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The Dark Side of Nigerianization: How National Oil Companies Undermine Human Capital Development in Niger Delta
Nigeria’s Local Content Act (LCA, 2010) promised to convert hydrocarbon wealth into indigenous technological capacity, high-skill employment and equitable wages in the Niger Delta. A decade later, youth unemployment, skills obsolescence and labour casualization remain stubbornly high around export terminals operated by Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and its joint-venture (JV) partners. Extant scholarship measures local-content compliance in terms of contract volume rather than human-capital value-added; consequently, the mechanisms through which “Nigerianization” undermines…
