Zarttech extends a sincere apology to individuals and partners who may have been affected during the course of its operations. The company recognizes that its journey included challenges and acknowledges the importance of accountability, respect, and transparency toward everyone who was part of its story.

At its core, Zarttech was founded with a mission to bridge the global tech talent gap by connecting diverse IT professionals with opportunities around the world. The company sought to remove barriers that often prevent talented individuals from accessing global work, while promoting fairness and reducing bias in the technology recruitment process.

Through its work, Zarttech contributed to a broader shift in how Africa is perceived in the global technology ecosystem. By highlighting the expertise, creativity, and potential of African developers and technology professionals, the company helped bring greater visibility to the continent’s growing pool of world-class talent.

Zarttech’s mission centered on creating opportunities that connected businesses with skilled professionals across Africa, Europe, and South America while demonstrating that innovation and excellence in technology know no geographic boundaries.

Beyond its business activities, Zarttech also supported initiatives aimed at empowering women in technology across Africa through training and education programs, reinforcing its belief that inclusive access to opportunity can help shape a more equitable global tech industry.

While the company’s chapter has come to an end, the impact of the conversations it helped spark about African talent, global collaboration, and opportunity without borders continues to be part of a larger movement transforming the global technology landscape.

Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) has been named a Local Content Partner at African Energy Week (AEW) 2026, in a move that positions the agency as a key driver of indigenous capacity building in Africa’s energy sector.

NCDMB

The event, scheduled to hold from October 12 to 16 in Cape Town, South Africa, will give the NCDMB a high‑profile platform to showcase Nigeria’s local content framework, industrial projects and investment opportunities to global investors and policymakers.

The NCDMB, a parastatal regulatory agency under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, has increasingly anchored its interventions on skills development, infrastructure and industrialisation.

In March 2026, the board launched a 12‑month pipeline engineering training programme for 33 young engineers in Port Harcourt, in partnership with Renaissance Africa Energy and MJD Oilfield Services.

The programme focuses on pipeline pigging, corrosion control and integrity management, aligning the workforce with major government infrastructure projects such as the Ajaokuta‑Kaduna‑Kano Gas Pipeline.

On infrastructure, the NCDMB is advancing construction of a 204‑room Radisson‑managed hotel and conference centre in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, expected to be commissioned in December 2026. Located adjacent to the Nigerian Content Tower, the facility is designed to support industry collaboration, conferences and business meetings within the local content ecosystem.

The board has also commissioned a Clinical Skills and Simulation Laboratory at Bayelsa Medical University, enhancing healthcare training and service delivery in host communities through modern simulation technology.

Industrial expansion remains a core pillar of the NCDMB’s strategy. Under the Nigerian Oil and Gas Parks Scheme, pilot parks in Odukpani, Cross River State, and Emeyal‑1, Bayelsa State, are nearing completion and are projected to generate about 2,000 jobs each.

These shared‑services industrial hubs are designed to localise manufacturing, reduce project costs and enable indigenous companies to scale up production along the upstream and midstream value chains.

From a financing and policy standpoint, the NCDMB is deploying multiple funding mechanisms, including a 100‑million‑dollar equity investment scheme, a 500‑million‑dollar intervention fund and a 20‑million‑dollar initiative targeted at women‑owned enterprises in the oil and gas sector.

Recent enforcement measures, such as tighter expatriate quota controls and mandatory compliance certification for operators, signal a shift toward deeper localisation, greater transparency and stronger investor confidence in Nigeria’s energy industry.

Speaking on the significance of the board’s role at AEW 2026, the Executive Chairman of the African Energy Chamber, NJ Ayuk, said the NCDMB’s participation underscores Africa’s commitment to building domestic capacity and retaining value within the continent.

“Local content is not just policy – it is the foundation for sustainable growth, job creation and energy security across African markets,” Ayuk noted.

As African Energy Week 2026 gathers global investors, policymakers and energy operators, the inclusion of the NCDMB as a Local Content Partner highlights the growing importance of in‑country value creation. With focused sessions on skills development, technology transfer and industrialisation, the forum is expected to generate concrete partnerships and commitments that can help build resilient, competitive and investment‑ready energy ecosystems across Africa, with Nigeria positioned at the centre of the regional value chain.

National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has formally taken over the Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture (NGEA) Portal, in a major step toward unifying and modernising the country’s digital public services.

NITDA

The handover ceremony, held at the Continental Hotel in Abuja on Thursday, marks the transition from a donor‑supported project to a fully Nigerian‑led digital‑governance platform.

NITDA Director‑General Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, represented by the Director of Corporate Planning and Strategy, Dr Dimie Warowei, described the occasion as the culmination of a strategic partnership between Nigeria and the Republic of Korea, backed by the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).

The NGEA project, launched in late 2022, is a key pillar of Nigeria’s e‑Government Masterplan 2.0 and aims to align digital systems across ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) under a common, interoperable framework.

Abdullahi said Nigerian and Korean experts spent over two and a half years reviewing and upgrading the national enterprise architecture, producing a revised structure designed to reduce duplication, improve efficiency and better reflect national policy priorities. Several reference models—including Technology, Business and Service models—have been developed to guide implementation, while further Data and Performance Reference Models are expected to deepen the architecture’s robustness.

Pilot programmes were rolled out at agencies such as the National Identity Management Commission, the Nigeria Customs Service, the Nigeria Immigration Service and NITDA itself, where staff received capacity‑building support and tailored digital‑transformation roadmaps. The platform is hosted on infrastructure supplied by the Nigerian firm Qorebox Technologies Limited and run within Galaxy Backbone’s facilities, with a two‑year maintenance plan to ensure stability.

The DG stressed that the NGEA Portal is more than a technical tool; it is a foundation for coordinated, citizen‑centric governance. “The successful implementation of enterprise architecture across government will help reduce duplication, improve interoperability, and enhance service delivery,” he said, adding that NITDA will now lead the operational management and long‑term sustainability of the system.

KOICA’s Country Director, Mr Eunsub Kim, hailed the event as evidence of a successful Nigeria–Korea collaboration and reaffirmed his agency’s commitment to supporting Nigeria’s digital‑transformation agenda. The Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Engr Nadungu Gagare, represented by Mr Johnson Bareyei, welcomed the portal as a shift from scattered digital initiatives to an integrated national framework, aligned with the ministry’s transformation goals under Dr Bosun Tijani and the broader national digital‑economy drive.