DANIEL KIP PROCEEDS AGAINST THE NIGERIAN CONTENT DEVELOPMENT AND MONITORING BOARD (NCDMB) UNDER THE FOI ACT: INITIATES REQUEST FOR PROOF OF COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 51 OF THE NIGERIAN OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY CONTENT DEVELOPMENT ACT, 2010.

A Legal Practitioner in Nigeria, Daniel Kip, Esq, on the 14th of November, 2025, submitted a request to the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, established pursuant to Section 4 of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, 2010, for the Legal Services Plans (LSP) filed by all Operators, Contractors, and other entities engaged in any operation, business, or transaction in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry, in the year 2024 and 2025. 

According to Daniel Kip, the move was prompted by the need to interrogate compliance with Section 51(1) of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Content Development Act, 2010, which mandates all operators, contractors, entities engaged in any operation, business or transaction in the Nigerian oil and gas industry, to retain only a Nigerian Legal Practitioner or a Firm of Nigerian Legal Practitioners which office is located in Nigeria, for every legal services. He has specifically requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOI), 2011, for:

1. The certified copies of all Legal Services Plans (LSP) submitted by all Operators, Contractors, and other entities engaged in any operation, business, or transaction in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry, in the year 2024 and 2025.

2. A report or details of the compliance status of Operators, Contractors, and entities with LSP submission requirements.

3. Any audit reports or assessments conducted by the Board on submitted LSPs.

It is important to point out that by Section 5 of the Act, the Board is saddled with implementing the provisions of the Act with a view to ensuring a measurable and continuous growth of Nigerian content in all oil and gas arrangements, projects, operations, activities or transactions in the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry.

Section 51(2) of the said Act, mandates all Operators, Contractors, & entities in the Oil and Gas Sector to submit to the Board, a bi-annual Legal Services Plan (LSP), which must include a comprehensive report on the matters stated in subparagraphs (i)-(iii) of subsection 3(a), a list of the matters stated in subparagraphs (i)-(iii) of subsection 3(b) to the said Section, and the annual legal services budget of the operator for the preceding one (1). 

According to Kip, Lawyers in Nigeria deserve to know the goings-on or extent of usage of local content in legal services delivery within the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria.

As at the date of this publication, the Board is yet to respond or comply with the request made, hence we are uncertain if this implies that there has been failure on the part of the Board to ensure compliance with the said Section of the Act.

When posed the question as to what his reaction is to the silence from the Board, Daniel Kip stated that he will be resorting to litigation in order to ensure compliance. 

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