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PROFILE: ENGR. SIMBI KABIYE WABOTE, FNSE
A passion to excel
Engr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote, FNSE consistently exhibited the passion to excel in all his professional
career which he also demonstrated in running the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring
(NCDBM) since assumption as Executive Secretary. No wonder he is winning!
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ngr. Simbi Kesiye Wabote - Executive
S e c r e t a r y, N i g e r i a n C o n t e n t
D e ve l o p m e n t a n d M o n i t o r i n g
(NCDBM)
Engr. Simbi K. Wabote was appointed as the
Executive Secretar y Nigerian Content
Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB)
by President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) on
the 29th of September 2016. Prior to his
appointment he was an Executive Director of
Shell Petroleum Development Company
(SPDC) Nigeria Limited and the General
Manager Business and Government Relations
for Shell Companies in Nigeria (SCiN).
Engr. Wabote joined Shell in September 1991
as an Oil and gas Engineer after a short stint with
the Banking industry in Nigeria.
Prior to taking up his role as an Executive
Director of Shell, he had served Shell in various
senior positions within and outside the country
in Engineering, Contracting & Procurement,
External Affairs and Community Affairs
Directorates. As Head of Civil engineering in
Shell Eastern Division, he was responsible for
major key civil engineering projects for the
company, including the Shell Osubi airport in
Warri Delta State Nigeria. He served as the
National Assembly Relations Adviser to Shell
and was the General Manager, Local Content
Development, of Shell Exploration Production
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Company in Nigeria (SEPCiN). He was
responsible for the development of Royal Dutch
Shell’s local content strategy and framework and
supervised Shell Local Content implementation
across several countries including Nigeria,
Gabon, Brunei, Oman, Kazakhstan, Australia,
Iraq, Qatar, Jordan, USA and new frontier
countries for Shell.
Simbi holds an MSc from Leeds Metropolitan
University, Graduate of Civil Engineering from
Rivers State University of Science and
Technology Port Harcourt and a graduate of
INSEAD group leadership programme. He is
also a member of the Nigerian Society of
Engineers and a COREN Registered engineer and
a member Institute of Civil Engineers London.
As the Executive Secretary, NCDMB his new
assignment is to steer strategic National programs
being implemented by the Board to build capacity
and domicile industry activities within Nigeria. He
is expected to bring his global experience to bear
in re-engineering the Board’s business processes
to achieve maximum impact on Nigerian Content
development.
Simbi, born 2nd February, 1966 is a Nigerian
from Bayelsa State and is married to Sotonye with
three lovely daughters.
It is against the backdrop of Engr. Wabote’s contributions,
and achievements in the engineering, construction, oil and gas and
governance that he is today inducted into the Nigeria’s
Construction Industry Hall of Fame. Congratulations!
As the Executive Secretary,
NCDMB his new assignment is to
steer strategic National
programs being implemented by
the Board to build capacity and
domicile industry activities
within Nigeria. He is expected to
bring his global experience to
bear in re-engineering the
Board’s business processes to
achieve maximum impact on
Nigerian Content development.
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