OIL Producing Communities in Ondo State, at the weekend, kicked against alleged lopsidedness in the distribution of top management positions in the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for the past 17 years.

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC has embarked on cleaning exercise in Edo State as part of effort towards giving the states a face-lift. The head of Environment Department in NDDC, Edo State, Awo Osagie, who monitored the exercise, commended the management for embarking on the exercise. 

YOUTHS under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Development Congress, NDYC, yesterday, condemned governors from the Niger Delta region over the recent approval of $1billion from the Excess Crude Account, ECA, as demanded by President Muhammadu Buhari, to prosecute the fight against Boko Haram insurgency.

PORT HAR-COURT— Hundreds of Ijaw Youth Congress, IYC, members, yesterday, stormed the head office of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, protesting alleged Federal Government’s plan to extend the tenure of the current board of the commission.

RECENT agitations for and against the dissolution of the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, are reflective of the self-centred zealousness that has derailed the attainment of the goals of the regional development agency.

Managing Director of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Nsima Ekere, has said that the commission was set to create more jobs for youths in the region to discourage periodic protests by youths around the premises of the commission.

A MEMBER of the House of Representatives, Mr. Daniel Reyenieju in this interview speaks on the tenure of the Chairman of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC,   Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, national convention, and the forthcoming local government election in Delta State among other issues of national relevance.

Youth Initiative for Education, Development, and Empowerment of Niger Delta has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ignore calls to dissolve the board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, finally reviewed and amended the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Establishment Act of 2000, to make it mandatory for International Oil and Gas Companies to set aside three percent of their budget for the development of the Niger Delta region.

A legal practitioner, Mr. Jesutega Onokpasa, has described calls for termination of the tenure of the present board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, as “a most perplexing trend” by “rabble-rousers” who want “to unilaterally rewrite the enabling law for the National Assembly.”