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By Chibisi Ohakah and Kenechukwu Obiajuru The managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kyari, has said that the situation in the Niger Delta of Nigeria today does not reflect the weight of the…

By Kenechukwu Obiajuru, Yenagoa Fishing communities along the Santa Barbra River and Nembe creeks in Bayelsa where the Nov. 5 oil leak from Aiteo's OML 29, had condemned the scanty palliative from the exploration company, describing the…

By Kenechukwu Obiajuru, Yenagoa A 200 level student of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Enomfon Akpan who emerged winner of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) annual Undergraduate Essay Competition has…

Amaechi Okonkwo, Port Harcourt A new militant group known as Bayan-Men, has claimed responsibility for the explosion at the Onosi-Ogu Manifold owned by Italian oil major, Agip Oil Company (NAOC). The manifold is located in Obosi area of…

By Amaechi Okonkwo, Port Harcourt Energy giant, TotalEnergies, has advocated a multi-dimensional efforts by stakeholders to end violence against women across the globe, saying that that is a sure way to achieve the United Nations…

By Kenechukwu Obiajuru, Yenagoa The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has said that the 10,000bpd capacity, Duport Modular Refinery project is being developed with equity contribution from the NCDMB, in line…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…