As part of its effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 in the country, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) says it has developed a contacts-tracing software application that can be deployed in all its locations across the country.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by NNPC’s spokesman, Dr Kennie Obateru, in Abuja on Wednesday.
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Saying that the idea was in line with the Transparency, Accountability and Performance Excellence (TAPE) agenda of the leadership of the NNPC, Obateru explained that the move shows the drive to continually deploy Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for the purposes of operational efficiency and accountability within the corporation’s system.
Speaking on the development, the Group General Manager, Information Technology Division (ITD), NNPC, Danladi Inuwa, said that the novel app was part of the NNPC’s sectoral contribution to curbing the spread of the pandemic within its formations, ministries, departments and agencies of the government.
He stated:
The Contacts-Tracing Solution is ready to be deployed, all the technical testing have been done and the solution is ready to go live.
Everywhere you go around NNPC locations will be covered by this novel application, which will reveal all information about persons visiting any official.
Should there be any medical challenge, the NNPC Medical will be able to track from the information at the data base all the contacts and advise properly.
The application, he said, could also be used by members of staff of the corporation to document their private visitors at their homes.
The Group General Manager added that the novel application would enable the workforce to adjust adequately to the ‘new normal’ way of living to minimize the spread of the disease.
Inuwa further disclosed that the corporation had also deployed a Sales and Distribution application in the Oil and Gas Secondary Model Portal that would enable marketers to buy petroleum products online.
He said that this was to minimize human contacts in business transactions at the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), a downstream subsidiary of NNPC, in the face of COVID-19 pandemic.
The application, known as the Customer Express, would also enable marketers to register, validate and revalidate their Bulk Purchase Agreements online within a week, according to Inuwa.
