• Wabote named Fellow, Petroleum Training Institute The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) and Petroleum Training Institute (PTI), Effurun, Delta State, are set to formalise processes for closer collaboration to actualise their shared mandate for human capacity development and advancement of Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. At an exploratory session at the Nigerian Content Tower, Yenagoa, corporate headquarters of the NCDMB, on […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) in conjunction with the Anti-Corruption Academy of Nigeria (ACAN), an organ of the Independent CorruptPractices Commission (ICPC) organised a 2-day sensitization workshop for the Board’s staff in Abuja recently. Delivering the keynote address at the workshop which is focussed on “Anti-Corruption Requirements and Best Practices in Public Procurement,” the Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote explained that the workshop will equip the participants with the best Anti-Corruption practices and procedures. He hinted that […]
Angola, Namibia to replicate funding model The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board(NCDMB) and the Bank of Industry (BoI) have signed an amendment to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the $50million NOGaPS Manufacturing Fund. The Fund was created by the NCDMB and domiciled with BoIto attract oil and gas equipment manufacturers to the Nigerian Oil and Gas Parks Scheme (NOGaPS) facilities established by the NCDMB, and increase access to affordable finance by themanufacturing entities. The […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) on Thursday unveiled 17 portfolio companies that have successfully concluded research- and innovation-based training at its Technology Incubation and Innovation Centre (TIIC), signalling intensification of its capacity-building initiatives that birthed its Project 100 companies a few years ago. The 17 companies which had enrolled at the Centre as energy industry startups were among 54 incubates that underwent the 7-month programme initiated by NCDMB in partnership with the Nigerian […]
The benefiting institutions are Girls High School, Ikot Ibiok, Northern Annang Secondary Commercial School, Utu-Etim-Ekpo, and Government Technical College (GTC), Ikot Uko-Ika. For each of the schools a dedicated block, fully air-conditioned and well-secured with protectors and reinforced metal windows, serves as the ICT Centre. In a deliberate effort to deepen Internet penetration and digital […]
NCDMB Partners Stoilic Shipping on Cadets Training The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has held a kick-off ceremony marking the commencement of the Cadets Training Programme being organized with Stoilic Shipping Ltd, a renowned maritime training school. The event was conducted in Apapa, Lagos on August 22 and was attended by representatives of […]
The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Engr Simbi Kesiye Wabote has admonished civil servants in Bayelsa State to use their positions to enhance transparency in the democratic processes, especially in the forthcoming gubernatorial elections in the state. He gave the advice in the keynote address he delivered at the 2ndAnnual Lecture/Award Night of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, Bayelsa State Council held at the DSP AlamesighaMemorial […]