The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has revealed that Nigeria is now exporting fabrication services to the Middle East and several African countries.
The fabrication export is a strong indication of the country’s excess capacity in its fabrication sector, propelled by the Nigeria Oil and Gas Industry Content Development (NOGICD) Act, 2010, a law that seeks to develop local capacities and capabilities.
Executive Secretary of NCDMB, Omatshola Ogbe, disclosed this at a workshop organised for media stakeholders and youth groups in Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
In a presentation entitled “NCDMB Mandate and Achievements,” Ogbe, represented by Abdulmalik Halilu, Director of Corporate Services in the Board, said the workshop was of crucial importance, as the mass media, youth groups and civil society organisations (CSOs) have dutifully striven to put leaders of government agencies on their toes, demanding public service value as public institutions.”
Halilu further stressed that from some 50 world-class fabrication yards in the country, Nigeria currently has excess capacity in fabrication, which is now exported to the Middle East and some African countries.
