IOCs will come back to invest in Nigeria – NCDMB

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has said efforts were being made to bring the International Oil Companies (IOCs) back to Nigeria to continue their operations.
The Executive Secretary, Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe who spoke during the Executive Secretary 2024 Breakfast Meeting in Lagos, with the theme: “The Role of the Media in Sustaining Nigerian Content Development”, said the board also intends to increase the initiative to make sure that the second time construction activities in the oil and gas industry, according to the President’s directive, was within the six months as directed.
“At the same time, again, we’re going to go into dealing with the communities, trying to grow capacity with the community contractors so that the impact of the community on oil and gas operations is minimised to the barest minimum as soon as possible,” he said.
According to him, the critical importance of media and communication is recognised by the NOGICD Act. That is why it mandates NCDMB to continually deploy communication and public enlightenment programmes to propagate Nigerian Content policies and practices.
Ogbe noted that the Nigerian Content 10-year strategic roadmap had five Pillars and four Enablers adding that one of the Enablers focused on Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement. “That Enabler speaks to the relevance of public communication and engagement of internal and external publics to the success of the roadmap,” he said.
“In the past 10 months that I have served as Executive Secretary, I have observed the cordial relationship between the NCDMB and the media. I have been impressed with how the media project the activities and programmes of the Board through positive reports in the print, electronic and online platforms.
“It is obvious that this symbiotic relationship started through the efforts of my predecessors, and the effective work of the Corporate Communications Team,” he said.
He assured that the same level of cooperation and collaboration would continue under his leadership as the Executive Secretary.
According to him, the communications team would explore new creative strategies through which it would provide further support to media practitioners, as key stakeholders to the Nigerian Content project.
Source: thenationonline.ng

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