•Nigerian troops Military investigation into the alleged coup plot has reportedly uncovered a trail of N45 billion disbursed from the bank accounts of the Niger Delta Development Commission to some politically exposed persons and the soldiers detained in connection with the rumoured conspiracy to topple President Bola Tinubu’s administration. ...
•Wife of former Governor of Transportation, Mrs Judith Amaechi Wife of former Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi and former First Lady of Rivers State, Mrs Judith Amaechi, has denied an allegation by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, that her organisation, the Empowerment Support Initiative, received ₦4 billion...
•Managing Director NDDC, Samuel Ogbuku There is a high suspicion that some persons believed to be political foes of the managing director of NDDC, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, have initiated a media campaign aimed at rubbishing the commission’s chief executive officer in the eyes of right thinking members of the public, says the Niger Delta Progressive [...
•Tinubu Niger Delta youths under the aegis of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to as a matter of urgency intervene in the alleged mismanagement of funds in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement issued yesterday by the IYC spokesman, Comrade Bedford Berefa, he stated that the […]...
The Senate has thrown out a bill seeking to include Anambra State as one of the member states of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, saying that the state was not part of the Niger Delta region, which is the reason for the establishment of the interventionist agency. Speaking yesterday after the lead debate on […]
The Avu/Ohaji and Egbema Youth Forum in Imo State has issued a 7-day ultimatum to Roudo Construction Company Ltd., an NDDC contractor, within which to return to the abandoned Avu/Umunwaku/Adapalm/Etekwuru road and resume work. Briefing journalists in Owerri on Wednesday, the President of Ohaji Youths, Comrade Nwosu Nicholas Tochukwu, informed ...
Frequent changes in the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have been responsible for the slow pace of development in the oil-rich region, it was learnt yesterday. This was contained in a communique issued at the end of a two-day NDDC Board and Management Retreat with the theme: “Renewed hope: A new era […]
Worried by the rising incidences of insecurity across the country and wastages of taxpayers money, Comrade Akinteye Babatunde, President of the Senate, National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), has called on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to either complete all abandoned projects that dotted the campuse...
•NDDC headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State After an intense and rigorous selection process largely driven by technology, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has awarded scholarships to 200 successful candidates from the region to pursue Master’s Degrees overseas. The NDDC Foreign Postgraduate Scholarship programme which starte...

