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Local Manufacturing, Best Strategy For Reduced Capital Flight – Wabote
Local manufacturing of components used for operations in the oil and gas sector is the best strategy to significantly reduce capital flight in the industry, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board…
NCDMB Trains Bayelsa State’s Secondary Teachers
To improve the quality of teaching and learning in Bayelsa State, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) recently sponsored a six-week Teachers Development Training Programme for the secondary school teachers in the…
Host Communities Association To Support Nigerian Content Implementation
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The leadership of the Bayelsa State Chapter of the Host Communities of Nigeria has pledged its readiness to support and work with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), to ensure the sustenance of the…
Nigeria, A Leading Example In Local Content Policy For Other African Countries – Wabote
…says Nigeria needs no duplication of Local Content Board
The success so far attained by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB in the implementation of the country’s local content law which continues to attract…
60% NCDMB Trainees Secure Employments
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has said that 60 per cent of the participants in the Smart Electrical Engineering Training organised by the Board (NCDMB) have secured employment placements.
According to a…
NCD Fund For Support Of LPG Penetration, Power – Wabote
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development Management Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote has stated that the Board's investment policy was to devote substantial portion of the Nigerian Content Development Fund to support project…
Expatriates’ Participation In Nigeria’s Oil Industry Reduced To 20% – NCDMB
In the last decade, Nigeria has reduced the number of expatriates in the petroleum industry by 80%, being part of the achievements of the local content policy introduced since 2010.
Confirming this development in Abuja yesterday,…
Community Contractors To Be Involved In NOGAPS Construction – Wabote
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote has stated that community participation will boost the completion of Nigerian Oil and Gas Park NOGAPS Emeyal-1.
Wabote made this…
Wabote, NCDMB Win Nigerian Business Leadership Awards
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, was on Saturday in Lagos honoured as the Transformational Business Leader in Public Sector in 2019 by the BusinessDay…
No Compromise Of Quality, Standards In Nigerian Content Drive – Wabote
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has said that despite government’s drive for Nigerian Content, quality and standards must be upheld by players in the Nigerian oil, gas…
Oil Service, Manufacturing Firms To Benefit From AfCFTA – Wabote, MAN President
Local oil and gas service companies and manufacturing outfits in the country have been listed among those to benefit from the recently signed Africa Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AfCFTA) by President Muhammed Buhari.
According…
NCDMB, Senate Inaugurate ICT Centre In Lagos
To further encourage the learning of information communication technology by secondary school students, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has inaugurated an Information and Communication Technology Centre at…
NCDMB, Firm Train And Acquire $1.2m Software For 6 Universities
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To deepen the study of Geosciences in Nigerian tertiary institutions and link the academia with the oil and gas industry, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Danvic Petroleum International have…
Content Fund Infraction: NCDMB To Block Debtor Firms From Projects
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has warned that it would henceforth block operating and service oil and gas companies that default in remitting one per cent of the value of their contracts to the Nigerian…
NCDMB Unveils Guidelines For Utilization Of Local Barite And Drilling Fluids
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has unveiled Guidelines on the use of locally manufactured barites within the oil and gas industry.
The unveiling was done by the Executive Secretary, Engr. Simbi Wabote in…
Total E&P Company Receives NCDMB’s NCCC On Ikike Project
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB has issued the Nigerian Content Compliance Certificate (NCCC) for the Ikike field development to Total Exploration and Production Company.
The Executive Secretary NCDMB, Engr.…
NCIF Repayment Infraction: NCDMB To Hand Over Non-Compliant Companies To EFCC
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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB has warned that it would hand over beneficiaries of the Nigerian Content Intervention Fund (NCIF) who have refused to comply with the repayment terms of the NCIF to…
Nigerian Companies To Export Services To Uganda
Peace ObiAs the largest oil and gas country in Africa, with the most up to date technology, services, thought leadership and best practices, outward-looking Nigerian companies have identified Uganda as the latest frontier market to invest…
NCDMB Signs Stakeholder Agreement In Azikel 12000bpd Modular Refinery
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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) said that it has acquired equity in the 12,000barrels per day Azikel Hydroskimming Modular refinery being constructed by Azikel Petroleum Limited at Obunagha,…
Over 1000 delegates attend NOGOF 2019
NOGOF 2019
Over 1000 delegates including the Governor of Bayelsa State, Hon Seriake Dickson; Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu; Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC), Mr Osagie…