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  • NCDMB launches innovation challenge, promises prizes and incubation for local solutions

    NCDMB launches innovation challenge, promises prizes and incubation for local solutions

    2026-01-01 07:45:00
    In an update published by Premium Times, the NCDMB kicked off the Nigerian Content Research, Innovation and Technology Challenge (2025/2026), inviting proposals from innovators, academia and suppliers.

    The initiative is positioned as a pipeline into NCDMB’s Technology Innovation and Incubation Centre (TIIC) in Yenagoa, linking innovation to practical industry problems and localisation priorities.

    If implemented well, the programme could deepen local content beyond procurement into prototypes, IP development and scalable industrial solutions.

    Punch also reported NCDMB said it would “award prizes” to Nigerians pursuing content research and technology solutions.

    Energy Focus Report similarly described the programme as an innovation challenge and noted it “promises awards.”

    Echotitbits take:

    The opportunity is real, but scale is the test. Watch for how many winners move from idea to prototype to pilot—and whether funding and offtake contracts follow quickly enough to prevent ‘event-only innovation.’

    Source: Premium Times — December 31, 2025 (https://www.premiumtimesng.com/promoted/846706-ncdmb-kickstarts-nigerian-content-research-innovation-tech-challenge.html)

    Premium Times 2025-12-31

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  • Bayelsa Governor rejoices after Supreme Court verdict

    Bayelsa Governor rejoices after Supreme Court verdict

    Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, Tuesday celebrated and commended Justices of the Supreme Court for their uprightness.

    He described the verdict of the Supreme Court as the triumph of democracy.

    Diri, who spoke to journalists in Abuja shortly after the apex court dismissed the appeal filed by Chief Ndutimi Alaibe against his victory at the September 3, 2019 governorship primary election of the Peoples Democracy Party (PDP), explained that the incident has deepened democratic ethos in Nigeria.

    The governor noted that the judiciary remains the last hope of the common man in the country.

    “Clearly and transparently, the Justices have displayed uprightness. They have also displayed that the Supreme Court is indeed the last court in Nigeria.

    “I want to appreciate them and I believe and pray that God will continue to guide them, use them to do justice to all manner of people,” he said.

    Diri also appreciated Bayelsans home and abroad as well as lovers of the state government for their prayers and promised not to fail them.