In keeping with its vision to develop Centres of Excellence to increase in-country spend for training institutes by identifying, developing and maximizing these institutions in Nigeria to meet international standards, as well as assess the gaps in order to categorize them with a view to working with foreign training entities to benchmark their capabilities, the Nigerian […]
The efforts of the Nigerian Content Board, with the advent of the NOGICD Act, in developing capacity in-country to support the construction, operation and maintenance of oil and gas industry assets in the production life cycle of service operators’ facilities has brought about a corresponding commitment on their part to justify investment in local facilities […]
The Nigerian Content initiative has provided great opportunities for allied sectors of the Nigerian economy particularly the local IT companies/OEMs to key-in on the provisions of the NOGICD Act, build capacity in-country development without compromising quality, standard and safety as well as receive a boost in line with the provisions made by the Nigerian Content Development […]
Youths in the Niger Delta region have been charged to pick up the gauntlet and take advantage of opportunities on the noble objectives of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board to develop technical capacity in the oil and gas industry through collaboration with oil and gas companies and also embark on specific projects that […]
The maiden sensitization and enlightenment workshop on the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act ended recently in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State with a call by the host government on the Board to stiffen penalties for non-compliance of the law to make Nigerians believe in the concept of indigenous participation as a major […]
The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board in executing its mandate stipulated in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development, (NOGICD) Act signed into law in 2010 by President Goodluck Jonathan, organized a maiden sensitization and enlightenment workshop recently in Calabar to create awareness on business opportunities in the oil and gas industry as […]
FORMER president Olusegun Obasanjo has commended the courage and doggedness of Mrs Florence Seriki as an entrepreneur in the nation’s fledgling IT industry despite of gruelling challenges, saying that the local content policy, if well implemented, will drive spontaneous growth of the national economy. Local content advocacy achieved front burner status during Chief Obasanjo’s eight-year tenure as […]