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The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has partnered the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN) towards promoting Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curricula in secondary schools across the country, with special targets for the girl child.The partnership with the association was launched recently at St. Jude’s Girls Secondary School in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, with the ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, in conjunction with the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, has organized a one-day workshop intended to create awareness of tax incentives available to Nigerian companies that invest in research and development. Oil and gas industry stakeholders will be converging at the Conference Hall of the Nigerian Content Tower, Swali, Yenagoa, on Tuesday, ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) said the newly launched $50 million will only be accessed by operators in the oil and gas industrial park. NCDMB and Bank of Industry yesterday in Lagos launched the $US50 million dollars fund for NOGAPS Manufacturing Product Line. The fund is to incentivize companies that would operate in the Nigerian Oil and ...

Nigeria and Senegal have signed an MoU on local content to enable Nigeria assist the sister country in growing local content in her oil and gas industry. This deal was inked at the 7th Sub-Saharan Africa International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference (SAIPEC). Senegalese officials noted that they had a lot to learn from Nigeria.The Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board, a ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has began the year with another accolade emerging “a Level 5 Platinum Level organization” in a summary report of the Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) Self-assessment Tool (SAT) released in Yenagoa on Wednesday. According to the Federal Government Bureau, the rating translates as “Exceptional Performance with a performance level of 90.5 ...

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has been selected as the recipient of the Leadership Local Content Champion of the Year Award by the Board of Editors of the Leadership Group Limited. The award will be conferred on the Executive Secretary at the 14th edition of the Leadership Conference and ...

Personnel of over 50 indigenous oil and gas contracting firms have completed a two-week intensive course on ‘entrepreneurship skills development and access to finance’ sponsored by the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). A statement from the board, said the training was held in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, and is part of a holistic project-based package toward building the ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has called for agenda-driven partnership to achieve common vision on Research and Development (R&D) delivery in the oil and gas industry. The board emphasised the need to attract sustainable funding as a major tool needed for R & D, innovation and entrepreneurship to create value in the Nigerian oil and gas industry. ...

The Nigerian Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has emphasised the need for the government to Fastrack final investment decisions (FIDs) on Olokola and Brass LNGs as Global demands for LNG rises given the Russia and Ukraine war. According to the NCDMB, prevailing challenges undermining foreign investments, particularly in the oil and gas sector should be addressed, if foreign investors would ...

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) says Bank of Industry (BoI), its fund manager, has so far disbursed 293.3 million dollars and N32.8 billion to 61 firms under its Nigerian Content Intervention Fund (NCIF). The General Manager, NCIF and Treasury, Mr Obinna Ofili, said this at the Nigerian Content Capapcity Building workshop for media stakeholders in Lagos on ...