The just Re-elected President, Muhammadu Buhari has given his assent to the Engineers Registeration Amendment Act 2019. This decision was taken after many building was in news recently of collapsing and killing citizens.
According to him, the Act also establishes the Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) with far-reaching powers, including prosecuting infractions and regulating industrial training of engineers and capacity building of local content in the engineering industry.
This new law gives COREN the power of prosecuting "any person or firm that contravenes the provisions of this Act in a court of competent jurisdiction; regulating industrial training schemes in engineering practitioners and students; ensuring capacity building and monitoring local content development in the Nigerian engineering industry through mandatory attachment of Nigerians to expatriate engineers on major projects to understudy them from inception and ensuring that all foreign engineering firms establish their design offices in Nigeria."
The Act also provides that, before being allowed to practice in Nigeria, such foreign engineering practitioners must be granted work permit, register with the council and obtain such licenses as may be required from time to time.’
