NCDMB releases N61.18bn local content fund to BoI

A total sum of $200m (N61.18bn at the official exchange rate of N305.9 to a dollar) has been released to the Bank of Industry as intervention fund for indigenous oil and gas service providers, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board announced on Tuesday. It also stated that third party outfits were being engaged to […]

NCDMB charges youths on biz environment, investment

Youths from the Niger Delta region must strive to create a conducive environment for businesses to thrive in their communities and refrain from acts that could scare away investors, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has advised He stated this recently when a delegation of the Okpoma Kingdom […]

NCDMB Starts Graduate Agro-Entrepreneurial Training

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 […]

IYC Central Zone apologizes for protest against NCDMB

…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 […]

NCDMB sponsors NUJ’s training Programme

…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 […]

Bayelsa Govt pledges support to NCDMB

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, […]

FG targets 100% Nigerian Content in 2027

…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 […]

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