NCDBInaugurates Sectorial Committees

In an effort to generate ideas
for content development  in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry, the Nigerian  Content Development Monitoring Board (NCDB) has inaugurated ten sectorial committees.
The committees include fabrication; finance; Insurance and legal services,  shipping and logistics,  Education and training; petroleum technology and multinationals.
Others are, Materials and Manufacturing; Information and Communication Technology; Engineering and Essential Services, which  covers Medical. Services, Health, Safety and Environmental, Catering and Hospitality.
The Executive Secretary of the board, Mr. Ernest Nwapa, while inaugurating the committees in Abuja last week said they were set up under section 57 of the Nigerian Content Act.
He noted that the objective  of constituting the content consultative  forum committees is to  provide a platform for information sharing on upcoming  projects and local capabilities.
According to the Executive Secretary, the various committees would also be expected to articulate and recommend strategies for developing Nigerian content, and urged members not to use the forum for unhealthy debate.
Nwapa emphasised that the committees would only be effective of the various groups, initiate  policies that would benefit  the generality of the  members.
He stressed that the present administration listens to messages that are  intended to benefit the entire group and not one or two  persons  and charged  them to  make useful inputs that could proffer solutions to move the system forward.
The Nigerian Content Development boss expressed joy over laudable  progress recorded  with the implementation of the Nigerian Content Act over the  past four years and stated that some  challenges had been  thrown up thereby necessitate the need to tap ideas from stakeholders through the committees.
He further  said that Nigerian content had been positioned to make  they inputs into government’s policies and advised  stakeholders to harness and utilize the opportunity appropriately.