2026-01-02 09:00:00
In a statement carried by Punch, the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) announced its 2025/2026 research, innovation and technology challenge to support deployable solutions across the energy value chain.
The programme is positioned as a competitive pipeline that targets practical outcomes—funding, piloting and partnerships—rather than proposals that end at the concept stage.
Stakeholders note that innovation programmes deliver the most impact when winners are connected to real industry offtakers, procurement lanes and test-bed opportunities.
Validation: Premium Times reported the launch as a push to spur “innovation and technology” within Nigeria’s content ecosystem. Vanguard also covered it as an “innovation challenge,” reinforcing the emphasis on converting research into market-ready products.
Echotitbits take: NCDMB has leverage—if it plugs winners into procurement and operations, this becomes an industrialisation tool. Watch the judging criteria (commercial viability vs. concept) and whether pilot funding is released fast enough to keep teams alive.
Source: The Punch — 2026-01-01 (https://punchng.com/ncdmb-unveils-2025-2026-tech-innovation-challenge/)
The Punch 2026-01-01
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