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A transparency group, the League of Nigerian Democrats has called on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, the North East Development Commission, and others to immediately obey President Bola Tinubu’s directive on board dissolution and stop claiming exemption. The group urged President Tinubu and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, […]
The Senate has granted more time to an ad-hoc committee it constituted to investigate alleged unauthorized spending by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The committee, chaired by Yusuf Yusuf was constituted last week to investigate transactions allegedly carried out by the NDDC under its 2021 and 2022 budgets without the approval of the […]
Deputy President of the Senate and Delta State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, has promised to address the developmental needs of riverine communities in the state if elected as the next governor. Omo-Agege, who lamented the absence of social amenities and development in Itsekiri and Egbema communities […]
President Muhamadu Buhari has sacked Effiong Akwa, the Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Akwa was appointed in October and reasons for his termination were not given. According to a statement released by the Director of Press, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Patricia Deworitshe, the President also announced the constitution of […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has alleged that about N17bn allocated to stop oil theft has been diverted. Falana, while delivering his goodwill message in Lagos State Thursday, also stated that the Ministry of Niger Delta ought to be under the NDDC, and not the other way around. He spoke an event organised […]
The Igba of Warri Kingdom, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has urged the Federal Government to revoke the pipeline surveillance contract awarded to the former Niger Delta Militant Leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. According to the Niger Delta activist, there is a “drum of war” in the region amid oppositions on the contract. Lori-Ogbebor […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested a former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Mr. Nsima Ekere. Ekere, who hails from Akwa Ibom, was arrested on Wednesday by operatives of the commission in Abuja. The former NDDC is being accused of diverting N47 billion funds belonging to […]
INDIGENES of oil-rich Ovewve and Opherin Agbarha-Otor, Ughelli North Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, shut down the flow station, pigging manifold and other facilities in the Eriemu oil field over the abandonment of 11-kilometre road project embarked upon by Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in the communities. Protesting women and youths […]
A Niger Delta environment and peace advocate, Chief Sheriff Mulade, has said that the appointment of a sole administrator to run the affairs of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was alien and a contravention of the enabling laws establishing the commission. Mulade, who was reacting to a Federal Court Judgment in Yenagoa, […]
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta on Wednesday commiserated with the family of Sen. Patrick Osakwe, who died on Tuesday at the age of 73. The governor in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, in Asaba, expressed sadness on the death of the Septuagenarian politician, who represented Delta North Senatorial District […]
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