DOUBLE STANDARDS: Northerners in charge at NEDC, N/Deltans not fully in charge at NDDC — Senator Ekpeyong
By Chioma Onuegbu, Uyo Senator Christopher Ekpenyong represents Akwa Ibom North West (Ikot Ekpene) in the 9th Senate on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP. In this interview, speaks on the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) unending controversies, reasons the All Progressives Congress (APC) should not be returned to power at the federal […]
NDDC: Group urges President Buhari to inaugurate the Senate confirmed board
The Niger Delta Development Initiative (NDDI), a socio-cultural, political and economic pressure group has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the legally recognised Board of the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC) which he appointed in August 2019. In a petition signed by the President of the Group Chief Ebikalome Tonye Anselm and Secretary Comrade Johnson […]
Niger Delta activist urges attitudinal change toward NDDC
Ms Ankio Briggs, an environmental and human rights activist operating in the Niger Delta region has called for attitudinal change toward the running of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Briggs made the call while fielding questions from journalists after receiving the Sole Administrator of the commission, Mr Effiong Akwa on a courtesy visit at her […]
Federal High Court Ruling on IMC: Buhari should stop the charade at NDDC – Group
Group known as Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, Thursday advised President Muhammadu Buhari to follow the law and inaugurate a Governing Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in order to avert the looming anarchy that will befall the commission. Disclosing this in a statement sent to Vanguard by the group’s National Chairman, Comrade Damian […]
UNIUYO don cautions ethnic groups against seeing NDDC as national cake
A Professor of Economics, University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Chris Ekong has cautioned against the entitlement sense of some States in the Niger Delta over the ownership of the resources sharing in the region.
NDDC alleged employment scam: IYC calls for swift attention
By Emem Idio YENAGOA- THE Ijaw Youth Council, IYC, worldwide has waded into the alleged employment scam rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC, calling for swift interventions. In a statement issued at Ijaw House in Yenagoa, by the Council’s Spokesman Comr.Ebilade Ekerefe, the group stated that it was worrisome to imagine that duly employed […]
