EXPECTATION that the speedy completion of the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC-sponsored ultra-modern motor park/market in the riverside town of Bomadi in Bomadi Local Government Area of Delta State would boost commerce in the riverine settlement, is gradually giving way to despair.

Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,  Obong Nsima Ekere, has disclosed plans by the commission to establish Niger Delta Export Development Fund, NDEDF, in the region.

The member representing Warri Federal Constituency in House of Representatives Mr. Daniel Reyenieju has called the attention of the Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr Nsima Ekere to the Koko-Ogheye Road Project, Ogheye Shoreline Protection and Ugborodo Shoreline project among other projects that has been abandon by the commission, noting that the projects are important to the people of  South- South region and the Nation at large.

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has pleaded with stakeholders to embrace sustained sensitisation of the region’s youths on the dangers of militancy and other social vices.

FOLLOWING reports  that firms linked to a senator violated procurement process in securing N3.4 billion contracts for the provision of plastic chairs and desks for schools in the Niger Delta, fresh facts suggest that due process was followed.

Another contractor has been engaged to handle the Permanent Headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Corporation, NNDC  in Port Harcourt,  River State .

A Nigerian Senator has come under the searchlight of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for using his influence to corner N3.4 billion job for himself, using companies licensed by family members, friends and associates to secure the questionable jobs.

THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has awarded scholarship up to university level to all seven children of Sergeant Chukwudi Iboko, the policeman who lost his life while courageously aborting an armed robbery attack on a bank in Owerri, Imo State, last year.

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it will train 100 men and women in automobile technology at Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company, Nnewi, an official said.

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has promised to complete the abandoned palace project of the Ahta Oro, the supreme traditional ruler of Oron in Akwa Ibom State’s third largest ethnic group.

—A former member of  House of Representatives, Prince Ned Nwoko, has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for the on going rehabilitation work on the failed portion of Onicha-Ugbo/Ugboko axis of the Abuja-Asaba-Onitsha Road.

YENAGOA—GUNMEN, yesterday, abducted two contractors working on one of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC’s projects in Otuogiri community, Ogbia Local Government Area, Bayelsa State.

PORT-HARCOURT—THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, yesterday denied media report alleging that the agency’s Corporate Affairs Director, Ibitoye Abosede, confirmed expiration of the tenure of current Governing Board of the Commission

Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has said it was in discussions with a Chinese firm, SINOTEC Company Limited, to build a power pool in the region, adding that there was need to balance power supply among the many electricity users in the region.

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it is in discussion with a Chinese firm to establish a regional power pool project in the Niger Delta.