inter alia:
“The services currently available are:
2.1 Grant of [BP]: This is a certificate issued on the authority of the Minister of Interior to wholly foreign owned
or joint venture companies intending to do business in Nigeria to enable them operate legally. The certificate remains valid as long as the company’s operations does not infringe upon the law of the land which may lead to its revocation.
2.2 Amendment of [BP]: This is a facility in which a certificate is issued to reflect changes in a Company’s details/information.”
Its
“[BP] is granted to
N10 million
Para 4.0
(Specific Requirements) sets out that
THE PUBLIC SPHERE By Chido Nwakanma
Slowly but steadily, Nigerian or Local Content is becoming familiar and accepted terminology in the oil and gas sector that drives the Nigerian economy. As the Nigerian Content Development & Monitoring Board (NCDMB) pursues its mandate, it creates opportunities for many more Nigerians to participate in the sector that drives the economic fortunes of the country. It has a herculean task of creating awareness beyond the small band of oil industry players to include entrepreneurs in other sectors.
The primary focus is getting greater involvement of the host communities of oil and gas operations in the states that make up the oil-producing belt of the country. The states are Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Rivers, Cross River, Abia, Imo, Delta, Edo, and Delta.