By Tordue Salem The House of Representatives, Wednesday summoned the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over allegations that its contractors abandoned constructions of Onicha-Aku/Idumuje, Onicha-uku/Idumu-Ogo roads and Onicha-uku Civic Centre projects. The motion sponsored by Minority Leader of the House, Rep. Ndudi Elumelu (PDP-DELTA). In his motion, he noted “with serious concern, […]

A Federal High Court in Lagos will on Jan. 17, resume trial of a former Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tuoyo Omatsuli, and others charged with N3.6 billion fraud. The trial was slated in the cause list for continuation on Tuesday, but it has been rescheduled. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]

By Emma Amaize Chair Board of Trustees of Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, Chief Edwin Clark, on Tuesday, denied backing the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The elder statesman, who called Vanguard on phone to refute media reports on the matter, later forwarded a statement, saying, “I did not […]

MEMBERS of the Otu-Odelevbo Oresio, an Oba of Benin’s Chief Advocacy Group has called for the inauguration of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) with the members of the board to be headed by the former Deputy Governor of Edo state Dr Pius Odubu have been screened and confirmed by the Senate.

By Emma Amaize PORT HARCOURT – A coalition of campaigners under the auspices of 21st Century Youths of Niger Delta and Agitators with Conscience, weekend, notified President Muhammadu Buhari of their plan to take over both the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, headquarters in Port Harcourt and  East-West Road if he did not inaugurate the […]

 The Isoko Change Advocates (ICA) has commended President Muhammadu Buhari for putting on hold the Odubu/ Okumagba led proposed NDDC Board and setting up an interim committee to oversee the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC pending the completion of a planned forensic audit. ICA said that previous NDDC Boards were highly fraudulent in conduct, and mismanaged funds meant for the development of the Niger Delta region thereby turning Niger Delta to a haven of abandoned projects.

WHEN the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, took over the interventionist agency, few months ago, it won the hearts of the people with the startling sleaze it purportedly uncovered and the undertaking to expose more.

Having rather shamefully fled the electoral battlefield by throwing in the towel and repudiating the senatorial seat he claimed he could easily win, anytime any day, Niger Deltan Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, has seen fit, within the same depressing week of one embarrassing shenanigan after another, to tell a barefaced lie to Nigerians regarding the composition of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as to which of the four core oil-producing states of Delta, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom should occupy the position of MD/CEO in the present dispensation.

By Perez Brisibe Leaders from the Niger Delta region have faulted claims by Minister for Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio that it was the turn of Bayelsa State to produce the next managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC and not Delta as constituted in the current board. The leaders in a […]

By Perez Brisibe THE Niger Delta Justice Network, NDJN, has described moves by 3-man Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC to defend the commission’s 2019/2020 budget before the House of Representatives NDDC Committee as a “charade and an exercise in futility.” NDJN in a statement, Wednesday by its national president, Comrade […]

Members of the Committee on the Verification of NDDC Projects in Abia State have expressed shock at the level of discrepancies in the status of works recorded as done in the State by contractors and their actual status on ground.

…Promises relief materials for 2million flood victims By Omeiza Ajayi – Abuja The Interim Management Committee IMC of the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC has announced a collaboration with the Ministry of Works and Housing to halt the continued wave of contracts duplication in the Niger Delta region by various tiers of government. Executive Director, […]

By Levinus Nwabughiogu – Abuja A bill seeking to separate the office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from that of the office the Minister of Justice has scaled through second reading at the House of Representatives. At the moment in Nigeria, the Minister of Justice is also the Attorney-General of the Federation. […]

By Tordue Salem – Abuja The House of Representatives has directed the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to defray its existing liabilities, through the implementation of its 2019 budget. The House gave the directive to NDDC Interim management, led by the Acting Managing Director presented the Commission’s 2019 budget before the House Committee on NDDC […]

In the wake of the rascality attending the altogether condemnable approach Niger Deltan Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, has adopted in supposedly superintending the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, all manner of morally bankrupt and clearly intellectually handicapped interest groups have been angling to perform the highly unlikely miracle of reversing the nomination and confirmation of the new Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Board.