Following the roiling saga of the large scale fraud, financial recklessness and incompetence of the Interim Management Committee of the NDDC, more leaders of the Niger Delta region have questioned the propriety of having the IMC in place and called for its disbandment.

By Yinka Odumakin WE were being mesmerized by the tragic movie of Malami vs Magu graft joke when the “grab your copy now” of Nunieh vs Akpabio NDDC house of scandals was flashed in what has become the worst wretchedness of  governance in the history of the country. Ms. Joi Nunieh, immediate past Acting Managing […]

Those who used their positions to loot funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta must cough them out no matter how powerful they are, Minister of Niger Delta, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has warned.

Soni Daniel – Abuja Those who used their positions to loot funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta must cough them out no matter how powerful they are, Minister of Niger Delta, Chief Godswill Akpabio, has warned. Akpabio told Vanguard last night that the era in which powerful and influential elements teamed up […]

The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, yesterday, rebuked the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Prof. Kemerbrandikumo Pondei, over N90.4billion extra-budgetary expenditure by the commission between 2009 to 2011.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the alleged fraud unmasked in Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was an indication of the corruption and “criminal racketeering” that has pervaded the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, administration

Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and former Managing Director, MD, of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Joy Nunieh, were, yesterday, embroiled in war of words over what transpired between them when Nunieh was the MD of the commission.

PORT HARCOURT—The House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts, yesterday, rebuked the acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Prof. Kemerbrandikumo Pondei, over N90.4billion extra-budgetary expenditure by the commission between 2009 to 2011.

Group known as Transparency and Accountability Advancement, Monday advised President Muhammadu Buhari, to sack the minister of Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio following allegations against him.

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, have both asked a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to dismiss a suit by two Niger Delta activists,  demanding the sack of the NDDC Interim Management Committee, IMC.

The immediate past acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Dr Joi Nunieh, has denied that the agency spent N22.6billion under her stewardship, just as she alleged that the Niger Delta Affair Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, threatened her to do his bidding or be removed from office.

A legal practitioner, Mr. Godwin Ojeh, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmed Lawan, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon Femi Gbajabiamila to stop the alleged payment of N15 billion to NDDC contractors.

By, Akpenvwoghene Martins The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been in the news lately for alleged mismanagement of funds and contract splitting, from parliamentary hearings to media reports where the immediate past Managing Director of the interventionist agency, Ms Joy Anunieh has accused the Minister of the Niger Delta, Sen. Godswill Akpabio of graft […]

House of Representatives has launched a full-scale investigation into the N70.495 billion allegedly paid by Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to 1,773 contractors as mobilization fees between 2008 and 2012 without executing the projects.

By Ndimele Ajuri The corruption, financial recklessness and voodoo fetish oaths at the Niger Delta Development Commission under the Interim Management Committee as unveiled at the recent public hearing of the Senate Adhoc Committee investigating corruption allegations should not be condoned any further. It is disheartening that these infractions, which came complete with evidentiary material, […]