By Emma Amaize The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has rebutted the allegation  that the Acting Managing Director, MD,  Interim Management Committee, IMC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei, was collecting 30 per cent kickback from contractors, saying Mr Joe Adia, who made the allegation was not the President of Contractors Association. A top official of the interventionist agency, who spoke […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate committee investigating the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC was told that an Engineering Company was awarded a contract of consultancy by the IMC on the campaign of awareness on the prevention of the spread of coronavirus in the NDDC States. The committee […]

By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate has revealed that the new head of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Professor Kemebradikumo Pondei and other members of the Committee now collect 20 per cent to 30 per cent of contract sums before Contractors are paid. This is contained in […]

A group under the auspices of Niger Delta Renaissance Coalition, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to back his words with action, suggesting that the minister of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Godswill Akpabio be sacked along with members of the Interim Management Committee, IMC.

By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja Niger Delta-based Nongovernmental Organisations, NGOs, Friday, challenged the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen God’swill Akpabio, to publish names of NGOs are contract beneficiaries of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as claimed at the ongoing probe by the National Assembly Probe Committee. The demand was made by the Executive […]

President Buhari also said that the security situation in the North West and the North Central was disturbing even as he said that the expectation is that the security agencies should up their game.

TRADITIONAL Prime Minister of Tuomo kingdom in Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to set up a presidential panel to probe the allegations bedeviling the Niger Delta Developmental Commission, NDDC.

THIRTY-FIVE leading Niger Delta-based civil society organisations, CSOs and community organisations, yesterday, demanded immediate freezing of withdrawals from all accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and cessation to reckless activities at the interventionist agency.

By Davies Iheamnachor – Port Harcourt A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has ordered the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to always seek the consent of the Rivers State Government before executing projects in the state. In 2017, Governor Nyesom Wike through the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of the State […]

THIRTY-FIVE leading Niger Delta-based civil society organisations, CSOs, and community organisations, on Wednesday, raised the alarm that ‘bulk withdrawal’ was made from an account that belongs to NDDC, while the National Assembly probe into its activities was ongoing.