The adoption of Nigerian Content guidelines and models is sweeping across major sectors of the economy, with the Nigeria Institute of Architects (NIA) canvassing on Friday for the passage of the bill that will enforce the implementation of local content in the construction industry. Delivering the keynote address at the 2014 quarterly dinner organized by […]

KENYA has extended an invitation to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) towards adopting the policy for its oil and gas sector. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of the NCDMB, Earnest Nwapa, who recently returned from Kenya’s oil and energy local content convention in Nairobi. Nwapa was invited to the convention […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board has kicked off its pilot machinist training for fifteen trainees at the Nigerian Naval Engineering College in Sapele, Delta State. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Executive Secretary of the Board, Engr. Ernest Nwapa explained that developing human capacity building was one of the key mandates of the […]

Executive Secretary of Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Mr. Ernest Nwapa spoke to Ejiofor Alike on the milestones achieved in the implementation of the Nigerian Content Act, saying that the Nigerian Content Development Fund (NCDF) is not meant to be given out as grant to indigenous operators. We understand that the Nigerian Content […]

The Kenya Government has moved to emulate Nigeria and entrench a Local Content policy in their extractive industry. Managers of the industry in the eastern African country took this move when they convened the Oil and Energy Local Content Convention in Nairobi recently and invited the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. […]

The Ministry of Power has become the latest key sector of the economy to work towards replicating the success achieved with the implementation of Nigerian Content in the oil and gas industry. Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja at the Power Sector Local Content Policy Framework Development Workshop, the Minister of Power, Prof Chinedu Nebo promised […]

The Federal Government has commended the achievements of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) within its four years of existence, describing the agency as a major contributor to the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.  The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke gave the commendation last week while fielding questions from […]