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 […]
Two years after the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act became operative, over 30,862 jobs have, so far, been created, according to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board. Responding to enquiries from our correspondent on Tuesday, NCDMB said the figure covered the period between 2010 and December 31, 2012. For marine vessels […]
Bayelsa State Governor, Mr. Seriake Dickson, on Wednesday called for the expansion of the boundaries of Nigeria’s local content law to give more business opportunities to residents of oil-producing communities. Dickson, while speaking with journalists at the Nigeria Oil and Gas Strategic Conference in Abuja, said the impact of the law on those it was […]
The newly appointed Minister of Power, Professor Chinedu Nebo has assured that with the review and reversal of the original roadmap of the power sector developed in 2010, the Ministry will produce data which are consistent with the current and future challenges in the sector as well as tackle most of the ensuing technical challenges. […]