LOCAL CONTENT

L-R: Chairman of the committee on industry-wide implementation committee for in-country manufacturing of pumps, valves, flanges, and gaskets, Mr. Cyprain Ojum submitting their report to the Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote at the Board’s liaison office in Abuja on Wednesday. The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) is set to issue policy directives on in-country manufacturing ...

The Governments of Nigeria and the Republic of Equatorial Guinea have opened discussions regarding new partnership opportunities such as the establishment of a joint logistics base, deployment of indigenous capacities across countries, and lowering the costs of major oil and gas operations. These possibilities were discussed on Wednesday when the Minister of Planning and Economic Diversification of the Republic of ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, has accepted to lead discussion at the 2023 National Conference on Building Local Content Synergy between the Insurance Industry and Oil and Gas Sector. Executive Secretary of the Board, Simbi Kesiye Wabote, who has confirmed NCDMB’s participation has also accepted to be the Guest speaker at the conference being organized by STANMEG ...

L- R : Chairman of Shell Companies in Nigeria, Mr. Osagie Okunbor; Group Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari and Executive Secretary NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote at the 2023 Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair (NOGOF). Oil and gas opportunities valued over $50bn and projected to be developed within five years were showcased ...

The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Tuesday delivered a landmark judgment confirming the authority of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to collect the one percent Nigerian Content Development Fund (NCDF) levy from every contract awarded in the Nigerian oil and gas upstream transaction as mandated under section 104 of the Nigerian Oil and ...

The enthronement of transparency, prudent management of financial resources, and deployment of a new master plan are some of the strategies that would attract the private sector to support the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) and return the agency to the path of sustainable development of the Niger Delta region, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, has finalized plans to hold the 2023 Nigerian Oil and Gas Opportunity Fair, NOGOF, with the theme is – “The Oil and Gas Industry – Catalyst and Fuel for the Industrialization of Nigeria” The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, Simbi wabote made this known while briefing Newsmen on Wednesday ...

The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has performed the groundbreaking ceremony of a pipe manufacturing plant at Polaku Bayelsa State, being promoted by AS Energies Limited. The plant would manufacture Glass Reinforced Epoxy (GRE) and Glass Reinforced Plastic (GRP) pipes and has an estimated investment outlay of about N7.04 billion ($8.8million).Speaking at ...

…….by Ben Ndubuwa…….It was a night of colourful display of African culture and honour at the inaugural African Heritage Concert and Awards, where the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, was conferred with the Champion of Local Content Development in Africa Award.The event was held on Saturday evening in Kigali, Rwanda ...

L-R: (2nd left) General Manager Planning, Research and Development, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu;  Director, Planning, Research and Statistics, NCDMB, Mr. Daziba Patrick Obah;  Executive Secretary, NCDMB, Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote and (6th left); member NCDMB Governing Council, Mr. Mina Oforiokuma and other speakers at the one-day Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Suppliers’ Tax Awareness Workshop jointly organized by NCDMB and Federal Inland Revenue Service ...