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NCDMB Hails Total Energies For Key FIDs In Nigeria’s Oil Sector
By Kenechukwu Obiajuru, Yenagoa
Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has commended TotalEnergies for keeping faith with the Nigeria' oil and gas industry, describing it…
NUPENG threatens strike action, may cause nationwide fuel scarcity
There is possibility of fuel scarcity and price hike across the country from the coming weeks of this month (November) as the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas (NUPENG) workers which basically control the downstream arm of the…
PIA will boost investment in the oil and gas industry – Engr. Wabote
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has said that the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) recently passed by President Muhammadu Buhari will boost investment in Nigeria's…
NCDMB boss advocates investment in asset ownership by indigenous companies
The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote, has called on the indigenous service companies in the Nigerian oil and gas industry to invest in asset ownership as it is the major…
NCDMB pledges collaboration with affiliate companies in promoting local content
Yenagoa
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) Engr. Simbi Wabote has stressed the willingness of the Board to continue to collaborate with its affiliate companies in the promotion of…
FG to ban importation of barites in 2022, launches Nigeria made brand
The federal government of Nigeria has announced a plan to ban importation of barites used by the Nigerian oil and gas industry in 2022.
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr.…
NCDMB donates ICT Center to Bayelsa school
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has donated an Information and Communication Technology Centre (ICT) to the Government Science and Technical College, Okaka, Yenagoa, Bayalsa state.
The donation of the…
NCDMB, partners move to complete four projects before 2021 ends
The Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has disclosed that four major projects being developed by investors in partnership with the board would be completed before…
Expatriate Quota Management Initiative: NCDMB holds sensitization Workshop for stakeholders
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has organized a sensitization workshop on Expatriate Quota Management Initiative for stakeholders in midstream and downstream companies in the oil and gas industry.
According…
No plan to recolate our Head office to Abuja
NCDMB Boss
The leadership of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has described as untrue, the alleged pressures being mounted on the Board by some stakeholders of the oil and gas industry to relocate its…
NCDMB Executive Secretary receives African Icon Award
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote was recently presented with the African Local Content Icon Award in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital by the African Leadership…
Bayelsa Assembly seeks collaboration with NCDMB
The Bayelsa State House of Assembly has pledged its readiness to collaborate with the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, in the State to ensure conflict resolutions among the host communities where the Board’s…
Breaking: NCDMBB Executive Secretary, Engr. Wabote wins African Local Content Icon award
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Wabote has been presented with the African Local Content Icon award during the 2021 African Business Leadership conference organized by…
30 persons graduate from ASNT Level III certification training programme
The maiden edition of the American Society for Non-Destructive Testing, ASNT, Level III Certification Training programme sponsored by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has been concluded in Port Harcourt, Rivers…
NCDMB to develop Oil and Gas Park in Ondo State
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, said it has commenced activities to develop an oil and gas industrial park in Ilaje, Ondo State under its Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme, NOGaPS.
According to the Board,…
Assah North, Ohaji South gas project: Shell trains 40 Imo youths
A global group of energy and petrochemicals companies operating in Nigeria, the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, SPDC, said it has kicked off a one-year professional and vocational training for at least 40 youths…
Protect projects in your localities – NCDMB charges communities
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has charged host communities of its major projects in Bayelsa State to protect and support the projects in their localities to ensure their timely completion and creation of job…
NCDMB, NEXIM Bank Sign MoU on US$30m Working Capital Fund for Oil Firms
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB and Nexim Nigerian Export-Import Bank have signed a memorandum of understanding, MoU, on the administration of US$30 million Working Capital Fund for oil and gas service…
NCDMB GSM training: 500 youths graduate in Bauchi State
Youths numbering not less than 500 in Bauchi State have successfully graduated from the Global System for Mobile Communication, GSM phone repairs, hardware, software & entrepreneurship development training organized by the Nigerian…
NCDMB leader to youths: Create business opportunities around uncomfortable situations
The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, has charged Nigerian youths beat adverse situations by creating business and job opportunities rather than complaining.
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