The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Nigerian Navy have agreed to deepen their collaboration in the Oil and Gas industry, especially with regards to developing and utilizing capacity. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Ernest Nwapa and the Commandant of the Nigerian Naval Engineering College, Rear Admiral Akinjola Johnson made the commitment recently […]
Nigeria today is no doubt engrossed in the effort to transform the country’s economy in various facets. However, one striking feature of the transformation process relates to the insistence by the Federal Government that multinational operators in the oil and gas industry adhere strictly to the guidelines on the Nigerian content policy. There seems to be […]
THE Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has met one of the mid-term targetsset for it by Diezani Alison-Madueke, minister of petroleum resources. The board’s target is to establish a pipe mill that would help define the success of the Nigerian Content Act.When completed, the pipe mill will help meet the annual industry line […]
Some years ago, nobody knew that Nigerians could be part of the value chain in the phone recharge business. At a time, a bulk of the business was taken abroad by Nigerian telecommunications operators, with the final product exported back to Nigeria. Telecoms operators were also producing recharge cards abroad, thereby giving jobs that could have been […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board on Wednesday, 20th March, formally acquired10.2 hectares of land in Polaku community, outskirts of Yenagoa, Bayelsa State for the construction of the proposed Pipe mill. The site has a shore line for the construction of a jetty and is nearby the Shell Gbaran Gas Plant and the National […]
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Engr. Ernest Nwapa has been conferred with an Award of Excellence by the South-South Youth Assembly. Speaking at the award conferment ceremony held recently in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, the National President of the group, Comrade Ovie Afor explained that the Executive Secretary was chosen in recognition […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and the Presidential Amnesty Programme have begun to work together towards creating employment opportunities in the Oil and Gas Industry for ex-militants who have undergone specialized training programmes. The Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Ernest Nwapa and the Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Mr. Kingsley Kuku confirmed this […]