Merge Ministry of N-Delta Affairs with NDDC, NDPM urges FG
gives panacea for region’s development By Emem Idio A group known as Niger Delta Peoples Movement, NDPM, has called for the merging of the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for the effective and coordinated development of the region. The group lamented that funds meant for the development of […]
NDDC: Elders’ Forum urges Umana to end ongoing illegality, ensure board inauguration
The Niger Delta Elders’ Forum (NDEF) has urged the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Obong Umana Okon Umana to end the ongoing illegality of administering NDDC with a Sole Administrator and ensure the inauguration of the substantive board, following his reported commitment on Tuesday, July 19, 2022, that “under his leadership, the Niger Delta Development […]
2023: APC chances in N’Delta diminishing over NDDC — Group
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South ASABA— A group of All Progressives Congress, APC, members in Niger Delta, has lamented that prospects of the party in the upcoming 2023 general elections in Niger Delta were getting worse with the APC-led Federal Government groundlessly rebuffing pleas to lay off Interim Management and Sole Administrator contrivances imposed on […]
Interim Administratorship in NDDC is illegal provocative – Falana
…Calls on President Buhari to put in place NDDC Board to comply with the law Renowned constitutional lawyer and human rights activist, Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has called on the Federal Government to comply with the law setting up the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by putting in place a […]
NDDC: South- South group urges Umana to ensure board inauguration
NDDC: South- South group urges Umana to ensure board inauguration
NDDC: Group urges Buhari to end illegality, inaugurate governing board
NDDC: Group urges Buhari to end illegality, inaugurate governing board
FG reviews NDDC Act, ignores NASS, stakeholders
The Federal Government has discreetly commenced the re-evaluation of the Act setting up the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, without the knowledge of the National Assembly and stakeholders of Niger Delta.
Publish the NDDC probe reports now
THE Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, is easily one of the most corrupt organs of the Federal Government. Established on June 5, 2000 by the President Olusegun Obasanjo regime, it was meant to be a special intervention to assuage the militant agitations through rapid development and engagement with stakeholders in the oil-producing communities. Responding to […]
Niger Delta stakeholders to Buhari: Abuja cartel still together, runs NDDC despite Akpabio’s exit
•Say Mr. President should act before cabal finally wreaks agency •Demand inauguration of governing board approved by Senate since 2019 By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Sam Oyadongha, Jimitota Onoyume, Festus Ahon and Egufe Yafugborhi A cross section of Niger-Deltans saddened by the goings-on at the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC, weekend, notified President Muhammadu Buhari […]
NDDC: Absence of counsel stalls hearing of suit against use of Sole Administrator
By Samuel Oyadongha YENAGOA—THE absence of counsel to Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, yesterday, stalled hearing in the suit seeking to stop the Sole Administrator of the commission from presiding over the affairs of the commission, as well as stop its placement under any ministry. Niger Delta groups identified as Wailing Women of the Niger […]
Activists tell Buhari: N-Delta now on life support
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Gabriel Enogholase, Chioma Onuegbu and Ozioruvwa Aliu ACTIVISTS and other stakeholders in the Niger-Delta, weekend, bemoaned that the oil-rich region has been on a shock therapy for some time now, following what they described as outrageous policies and actions of the Federal Government that have plunged the Niger Delta […]
NDDC: N’Delta top natives lash out at Buhari, Malami, Akpabio over court order
Top natives of the South-South region at the weekend, warned the Federal Government, the Attorney General of the Federation/Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and Minister of Niger-Delta Affairs, Godwill Akpabion, to stop playing games with the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
Group urges FG to obey court order, inaugurate NDDC board
Group urges FG to obey court orders, inaugurate NDDC board
NDDC pleads more time for refund of Eastern Bypass road construction counterpart fund to Rivers govt
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the Rivers State Government that it would redeem her 50 per cent financial obligation to the Eastern Bypass dual carriage road project commissioned in Port Harcourt on Saturday. Interim Administrator of NDDC, Efiong Akwa, said at the inauguration of the road where […]
Niger Delta group vows to dump APC over delay in NDDC board inauguration
The Niger Delta Rescue Movement (NDRM) has vowed not to back the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections following the delay of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The spokesman of NRDM, Jonathan Okwa, who disclosed this after its meeting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, on […]
N100bn contract scam: Senate summons NDDC mgt
By Henry Umoru – Abuja The Senate has summoned the management of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over contracts scam put at N100 billion. The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State-led Senate Committee on Public Accounts that is probing the NDDC, said it will personalize any refund that would be traceable to an […]
