NNPC unveils COVID-19 Contacts-Tracing app

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has developed a contacts-tracing software application that would be deployed in all its locations across the country.

According to the Group General Manager, Information Technology Division, Danladi Inuwa, the novel app was part of the NNPC’s sectoral contribution to curb the spread of the pandemic within its formations and Ministries, departments and agencies of the government.

“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 would be covered by this novel application which would reveal all information about persons visiting any official and should there be any medical challenge, the NNPC Medical would be able to track from the information at the database all the contacts and advise properly,” Inuwa explained.

He said the application could also be used by members of staff of the corporation to document their private visitors at their homes, stressing 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.

The IT expert stated that in order to minimize human contacts in business transactions at the Petroleum Products Marketing Company, a Downstream subsidiary of NNPC, in the face of COVID-19, the corporation also deployed a Sales and Distribution application in the Oil and Gas Secondary Model Portal that would enable marketers buy petroleum products online.