Niger Delta Development Commission
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 […]
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 President, Muhammadu Buhari, Thursday, said his regime had started taking steps in line with the recommendations of the Niger Delta Development Commission’s forensic audit report submitted to him in September 2021. He also raised hopes that the much-awaited appointment of board of directors for the commission would begin soon. Buhari also […]
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, […]
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has complained that Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, was operating against the law establishing it to the displeasure and detriment of member states for two years running. The governor frowned at the unacceptable situation and urged the Federal Government to constitute a substantive board for the commission without […]
Scores of protesting women drawn from the states of Niger Delta on Tuesday shutdown official activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) at its headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The protest, according to the women, was to demand the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a substantive board for the interventionist […]
The former Commissioner representing Isoko in the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Dr. Ogaga Ifowodo says agitation by the leaders and Youths of the South South for the Board of the NDDC to be inaugurated means well for the development of the region, as the region is weary of the sole […]
Some leaders of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Delta State including the Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo and the party governorship candidate in 2019 elections, Great Ogboru, have threatened to boycott the party’s congress in the state. This was contained in a letter dated July 21, 2021 and addressed […]
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