Tag: Simbi Kesiye Wabote

Who Is Felix Omatsola Ogbe? 6 Things To Know About NCDMB’s New Boss

ADEOLA YUSUF

“No pictures or profile.(I’ve) checked on LinkedIn as well… Now I’m curious about this person,” oil industry stakeholders heightened search for profile of the man that replaces Simbi Wabote. This is what Platforms Africa found out.   President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, on Thursday, appointed Engineer Felix Omatsola Ogbe as the new Executive Secretary for the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB). Ogbe is to replace Engineer Simbi Wabote, whose meritorious tenure was truncated less than 10 months to its expiration. With Ogbe’s appointment as the head of the key…

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Decade of Gas: Wabote Advocates Annual Reporting on Implementation

ADEOLA YUSUF

…. Begins to allocate spaces to investors at NOGaPS   As Nigeria navigates the 3rd year of implementing the Decade of Gas Programme of the Federal Government, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has advocated for action parties to provide annual status reports of the successes, issues, support required, and target completion dates. He made the recommendation at the just concluded Nigerian International Energy Summit (NIES) held at Abuja where he made separate presentations on Local Content Investment and Sustainable…

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Wabote Emerges Leadership Local Content champion Of The Year

ADEOLA YUSUF

NCI fund the most performing funding scheme SIMBI Kesiye Wabote, executive secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, 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 him  at the 14th edition of the Leadership Conference and Awards scheduled for Tuesday, January 31, in Abuja. The event is expected to be chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and the guest speaker is Uhuru Kenyatta, the immediate past…

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JUST IN: Nigerian Content Fund exceeds $500m

ADEOLA YUSUF

The Nigerian Content Intervention (NCI) Fund has exceeded half a billion dollars, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Wabote has said. Platforms Africa reports that Wabote spoke recently at the Sub-Saharan African International Petroleum Conference (SAIPEC) organised in Lagos by the Petroleum Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN), He indicated that the NCI Fund which is extended as low-cost credit to qualified oil and gas companies covers asset acquisition, project financing, manufacturing, working capital, loan refinancing, women in oil and gas, and research…

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Nigerian Content Retains $8bn Annually, Creates 50,000 Jobs

ADEOLA YUSUF

The implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act has created over 50,000 direct jobs in the local economy over the past 11 years, the Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote has said. Platforms Africa reports that Wabote stated this in Lagos during separate breakfast meetings he held with members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers on Thursday and editors of newspapers and broadcast stations on Friday respectively. He hinted that the level of Nigerian content in the…

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Nigeria reads Riot Act to IOCs, Narrows Barites Purchase to 4 Firms + NAMES

ADESUPO OSOSANYA

Buy barites elsewhere asides these four firms, risk sanctions, NCDMB tells oil producers, rig operators, contractors     Nigeria has read riot act to producers in its crude oil value chain on Barites purchase for their drilling operations, declaring that they either buy the material from four firms it approved or risk sanctions. Platforms Africa reports that the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) approved four firms for the supply of Barites required for any drilling project or contract in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.   READ ALSO: DPR…

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African Oil Producers Mull Breakaway From Foreign Lenders’ Funding Yoke

Aoko Benjamin

Here is Platforms Africa report on reasons Regional Investments, breakaway from foreign lenders’ yoke topped agenda at the African Local Content Roundtable   The maiden edition of the African Local Content Roundtable has ended at the Nigerian Content Tower in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Southsouth Nigeria, with a strong push by Nigeria and other members of the African Petroleum Producers Association (APPO) to develop regional oil and gas investments and renegotiate the COP-21 Climate Change Agreement. Platforms Africa reports that the agreement is what is driving the accelerated move by developed…

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BREAKING: Africa’s largest incubation campus commissioned in Lagos, Nigeria

ADEOLA YUSUF

Here is what you should know about the installation billed to prepare and equip Nigerian youths in the application of science, technology, and innovation     The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, on Tuesday in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital, commissioned the UNICORN Incubation Campus, reputed to be Africa’s largest incubation campus. Platforms Africa reports that the installation was commissioned with the mission to prepare and equip Nigerian youths in the application of science, technology, and innovation to create home-grown business solutions to everyday problems in the…

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