The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has flagged off the pilot phase of the Graduate Agro-Entrepreneurial Training (GAET), designed to train 120 participants for two weeks on poultry farming. The scheme which is part of the Board’s human capacity building initiatives is aimed at imbuing graduates from oil producing states with Agric-entrepreneurial skills […]

…NCDMB, BYSG to build IPP The leadership of the Ijaw Youth Congress (Central Zone) has apologized for staging a demonstration against the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, over unfounded allegations that the Board had moved its core operations to Abuja and Lagos and was taking other actions inimical to […]

…Donates 200 chairs The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has sponsored a training programme for the Nigerian Union of Journalists, Bayelsa State Council, as part of its human capacity building initiatives. The theme of the training was “promoting local participation in the oil, gas and maritime sectors: tasks before the media,” and it […]

The Bayelsa State Government will cooperate and support the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to succeed with its initiatives and implementation of the Nigerian Content Act, says Governor Seriake Dickson. He spoke at the 2017 Succession Planning Workshop, organised in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State by the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) for its contractors, […]

…charges Board on noncompliance mechanisms   … illegal refiners to get reformatory trainings    The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) must ensure that the Nigerian oil and gas industry is able to produce all its needs by year 2027, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu has directed.  The Minister set the target in Owerri, Imo State at the just […]

… to retain $14bn industry spend …create 300,000 jobs The next wave of Nigerian Content implementation has started and it targets in-country retention of $14bn out of the $20billion yearly industry spend and creation of 300,000 direct and indirect jobs. Another key target is growing in-country value retention in the sector from the current 26 […]