The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide has said that inaugurating Advisory and Monitoring Committees for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) without a substantive board in place is akin to building a house without foundation.

Inaugurates Commission’s Advisory c’ttee By Johnbosco Agbakwuru President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday said that about N3.7 billion cash and various assets worth billions of Naira have been recovered from contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC by law enforcement agencies. President Buhari disclosed this while inaugurating the NDDC Advisory Committee, comprising the […]

By Eric Teniola PRESIDENT Olusegun Obasanjo appointed Chief Godwin Eyarubere Omene, the first indigenous deputy Managing Director of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, the first Managing Director of NDDC. Chief Omene is from Delta State. President Obasanjo also appointed Chief Onyema Ugochukwu (76) as the pioneer Chairman of NDDC. He is from Abia State. […]

Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy (VATLAD), a good governance advocate, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to be very wary of the antics of the South-South PDP governors over their clamour for the constitution Advisory Council of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). VATLAD in a statement signed by Comrade Engr Igbini Odafe Emmanuel, National […]

By Perez Brisibe THE Eric Omare led Ijaw Youth Council, IYC has described the move by the Federal Government to constitute and inaugurate the Advisory Board Committee for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as a contradiction with a substantive board being in place. Head of Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Niger […]

The Isoko Change Advocates, ICA has Commended  Dr. Cairo Ojougboh the Ag Executive Director projects of  the Niger Delta Development commission  Interim Management Committee (IMC), for the projects inspection being carried out across the Niger Delta region,  noting that the exercise has  put contractors on their toes, thereby yielding massive results in terms of projects execution.

We have just read in the press of the planned inauguration of the Advisory Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari for Tuesday March 10th 2020 and wish to register our displeasure at the clear distortion of the NDDC Act, which the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs Chief Godswill Akpabio has perfected of late in his design to maintain his illegal interim management committee in office. 

President Muhammadu Buhari has constituted the Advisory Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

By Perez Brisibe PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been advised to heed calls by governors of the Niger Delta States for the inauguration of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The advice was given by the Niger Delta Development Network, NDDN which also described the call by the governors as a vote of […]

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has been a hotbed of controversy and friction for as far back as I can remember. Senior NDDC executives and their political godfathers in various states and Abuja often have major disagreements with each other; and these Establishment tiffs sometimes erupt into open warfare.