The Executive Secretary of the Content Development and Monitoring Board of Nigeria (NCDMB), ENGR. Felix Omatsola Ogbe says that the agency points to 70 percent of the development of local content in the oil and gas industry in 2027.
With this emphasis, OGBE revealed that the NCDMB would ensure that equipment and tools, as well as the necessary services for oil and gas operations, are carried out and obtained in Nigeria.
The executive secretary made this dissemination while the host of a visiting team of military classification officers of the Nigerian Army Resources Center (Narc), Abuja, which is in the state on a local study tour.
While presenting a portrait of the Niger , 2010, OGBE said that the previous phase was marked by the capital, the flight amounts to an estimated $ 380 billion, the loss of two million jobs as a result of human capital deficits and less than five percent in the content local.
In a strong contrast, which is the era after the NOGICD, he said that the period witnessed the phenomenal development of capacity and capacities in the country as a result of the creative application and monitoring of industry's operations, as well as the Strategic interventions by the NCDMB.
The NCDMB chief explained that the local content reached 56 percent at the end of 2023, which translates into a retention in the country of 56 percent of the annual expense of the oil and gas industry in operations, a feat that He has made Nogicd acted, as well as implementation. Strategies The model for other oil and gas producing countries in Africa.
Taking into account the success of the Board so far and the viability of its performance objectives in the development of capacity, he said: “We take research and development seriously,” citing the centers of excellence established, equipped and financed by The Board in the six universities. , one in the six geopolitical areas of the country.
The Executive Secretary, who was represented by the Director of Corporate Services and Capacity Development, Dr. Ama Ikuru, observed that the Nigerian army had raised the bar in research and development, as well as local content, in relation to the development of the development of the development of human capital and local manufacturing. of some components used in military operations.
While making the guests, who understood officers between the ranks of Lieutenant Colonel and the general who are currently undergoing a leadership and strategic course of 11 months 3/2024, round different sections and facilities of the Board, Dr. Ikuru had familiar with the technological innovation of the Board. and incubation center (TIIC).
His success story was highlighted to help people with innovative ideas and facilitate technological adaptation and improve the process.
In a greater elaboration of the activities and commitments of the Board, the director of monitoring and evaluation, Alhaji Abdulmalik Halilu, said that there is a history of “mutually beneficial association between the army and the NCDMB”, citing the participation of the Board staff As resources as resources such as resources such as resources such as resources such as resources at the Nigerian Defense Academy, Kaduna.
According to him, “it is good that the army sees NCDMB as a partner.”
In his own comments, the General Manager, Corporate Communications and Zonal Coordination, Barr. Esueme Dan Kikile, said that the visit of military officers who are participants of the 3/2024 strategic course of the Narc, gave the Board and invited a useful platform for the interaction and exchange of knowledge. He urged the guests to tell the success story of the NCDMB “wherever they are.”
The team leader for military officers, Major General Abubakar A. Tarfa (RETD), explained that the local study tour was part of an 11 -month course and that team members were professionals in various fields: Engineering, Medicine , nursing, and administration, among others.
He said that the course was designed “to prepare participants for higher responsibilities” and that the route would provide the necessary exposure, so that the officers become familiar with the NCDMB and their role and monitoring programs that “guarantee constant growth in the local content “in oil and gas industry.
Major General Tarfa said that there is “a relationship between leadership, strategy and national security”, and that training and associated activities underline such realities. He said that “military assistance to the civil authority for oil production in the Niger Delta towards national development” was an important motivating factor in its study by the State.
Speaking on behalf of the participants, Lieutenant Colonel Juliet Aziekwu, expressed his appreciation for the interactive session, stating: “We are better informed about the NCDMB and their role; We will put knowledge in use. “
Previously in the opening comments, the attached manager, corporate communications and zonal coordination, Dr. Obinna Ezeobi, had noticed that there was a link between what military officers were in the state and what the NCDMB does, that is , capacities development. He said they were like this in the right place.
In the entourage of the Narc team was the commander of the 16th Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Yenagoa, the Brigade General Oluremi Obolo.
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