…promises to strengthen oil industry-universities linkage  The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Ernest Nwapa has been conferred with an Honorary Doctorate Degree of Management Technology (D.MT) by the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO). Nwapa was awarded the degree at FUTO’s 2014 convocation ceremony held on Friday in recognition of […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has charged indigenous service companies to explore creative strategies of motivating their staff so as to retain the skills and capacities they have developed within their companies. The Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Ernest Nwapa stated this at the long term service award organized on Saturday in […]

The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has stated that the implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Development Act (NOGICD Act), signed into law in 2010 by President Goodluck Jonathan is yielding the desired results. Speaking at the ongoing Practical Nigerian Content (PNC) 2014 in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, the minister stated that […]

In furtherance of its commitment to the Nigerian Content Policy, the Nigerian Agip Exploration Company  (NAE) and the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) collaborated recently to organize a vendor awareness and sensitization programme in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The programme was organized with the key objective of constructively engaging vendors, entrepreneurs, operators and Nigerians […]

The implementation of the Nigerian Content Act has attracted a new crop of Nigerian investors who are no longer satisfied playing second fiddle roles to expatriates, but rather determined to commit huge resources in owning hi-tech assets and facilities to be used in executing projects in the oil and gas industry, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have begun working with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Oando Group, Sahara Energy and other key players in the gas industry to promote local manufacture of gas cylinders. Rising from a meeting called by the NCDMB at its headquarters in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State recently, stakeholders in […]

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has inaugurated 10 sectorial committees of the Nigerian Content Consultative Forum (NCCF), with a charge to them to generate ideas for the development of Nigerian Content in the oil and gas industry. Set up by Section 57 of the Nigerian Content Act, NCCF sectorial committees include Fabrication; […]