ABUJA, OCTOBER 18, 2018 – Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has partner Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Free Trade Zone Enterprises (DPRP) on the use of Local Content Act in the country, its Director, Monitoring and Evaluation, Mr Akintunde Adelana, has said.
He said this during the DPRP Nigerian Content Sensitization/Awareness Creation Programme, titled: “Let’s Walk the Nigerian Content Talk Together,” at Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos. Adelana represented NCDMB’S Executive Director, Engineer Wabote Simbi at the event.
According to Wabote, “the Dangote Refinery project is expected to close a major gap in the supply of petroleum products in the country. We consider this as a very important project and we are willing to partner with the company to ensure full implementation of the local content policy. We embarked on this journey with the company a long time ago and we are ready to partner with the Dangote Group. Part of what you see to today is part of our efforts to ensure that the company and its contractors comply with the local content policy.”
He described the Local Content Act as the quantum of composite value added to, or created in the Nigerian economy by a systematic development of capacity and capabilities, through the deliberate utilization of Nigerian human, material resources and services in the Nigerian oil and gas industry.
He said the country recorded loses prior to the enactment of the local content policy, which he noted, came from jobs executed abroad by International Oil Companies (IOCs), operating in the country.
