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To evaluate the effectiveness and growth of the NCDMB's local content policy from 2017 to 2026.

July 9, 2026Open Access

Appraising Local Content Development in In-Country Capacity Growth: A Review of the NCDMB's Ten-Year Strategic Road Map (2017-2026)

Key Points

To evaluate the effectiveness and growth of the NCDMB's local content policy from 2017 to 2026.
Quantitative literature review methodology
Frameworks used: developmental state theory, regulatory theory, energy justice theory
Analysis of legislation including NOGICD Act 2010 and Petroleum Industry Act 2021
Identified persistent issues in enforcement systems and institutional overlap despite existing regulations.
Recommended collaboration between NCDMB and NUPRC to streamline institutional roles and improve effectiveness.
Proposed revisions to the PIA Act 2021 for clearer institutional definitions and incorporating NCDMB in community development boards.

Abstract

The Ten-Year Strategic Road Map of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) is a strategic policy framework, whose aim is to increase Nigerian content in the oil and gas industry from 26% in 2017 to 70% by 2027. Its goal is to catalyse Nigerian industrial base and have a retention of 70% of industry growth in-country and create over 300,000 jobs. The objective of this work is to assess the growth of the NCDMB's local content policy between 2017-2026. The study embraced developmental state theory, regulatory theory, and energy justice theory as frameworks to investigate the local content growth in Nigeria within the period under review. A quantitative literature review methodology was adopted. Findings revealed that despite being legally substantively based, the Nigerian oil and gas Industry Content Development Act (NOGICD) 2010, an enabling legislation of the NCDMB, and the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021 have jointly contributed in the persistence of the lack of an effective enforcement system, institutional overlap, and elite appropriation of the stakeholder processes to the Road Map. The study recommended collaboration between the NCDMB and Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency (NUPRC), so as to address the problems associated with institutional overlap. The PIA Act 2021 should be reviewed to clearly define institutional boundaries to create unified approval windows to avoid duplication of roles and also the Act should incorporate the NCDMB into the Board of the Host Community Development Trust, as the NOGICD Act 2010 entrusts it with Capacity building mandate in developing in-country capacities and capabilities for the industrialization of Nigeria. The paper concluded by drawing a comparative analysis from the adaptive policy of some countries local content structure, whose meteoric rise in local content growth advisably should be domesticated in-country by the concerned Nigerian regulatory agencies in the oil and gas industry for sustainability and growth.

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