NDDC floats new initiative for N’Delta youths
By Egufe Yafugborhi, Port Harcourt The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has initiated Holistic Opportunities, Projects and Engagement, HOPE, a platform for sustainable empowerment of the region’s youth. At its flag off in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, Managing Director of the commission, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, said, HOPE “marks a beginning in our region, a turning […]
Buhari, Ohwavborua and new stories at NDDC
By Goodluck Edafe THE marriage of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to the Ministry of Niger Delta, MND, by the Federal Government few years ago has been a source of concern in the Niger Delta. The fear in different quarters has been that an NDDC management board tucked under a Minister of the Ministry […]
NDDC: Why are S’South govs, NASS unbothered, PANDEF, Dakolo, stakeholders query
By Emma Amaize, Regional Editor, South-South, Sam Oyadongha, Festus Ahon, Egufe Yafugborhi & Chioma Onuegbu LEADERS and stakeholders of the South-South, yesterday, queried the reason governors, senators and members of the House of Representatives from the zone look the other way while the Presidency continues to enforce an aberration of sole administrator on the Niger […]
Itsekiri groups protest, demand NDDC board chairmanship
A coalition of Itsekiri pressure groups, yesterday, took to major streets of Warri, Delta State, in protest, saying the chairmanship of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, board should be granted to the Itsekiri ethnic nationality as of right.
NDDC: No plan to counter Buhari’s position on forensic audit report —Umana
Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Umana Umana, yesterday, denied the allegation that there was a plan by him to counter President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on the implementation of the recommendations contained in the report of the forensic audit of the operations of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.
NDDC: Groups caution against further delay in inauguration of governing board
Niger Delta groups, Community Development Committee of Oil and Gas Producing Communities of Niger Delta (CDCOGPCND) and Mothers of Oil and Gas Producing Communities of Niger Delta (MOGPCND) have decried the continued delay in inaugurating the Board of NDDC in accordance with the law. In a joint Press Statement issued at the end of a courtesy […]
