BUSINESS DAY Experts reviewing a study and the forensic report on the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) spanning the past 20 years of the commission’s existence have revealed why over 12,000 contracts were abandoned. The study found…
THE SUN The Interim Administrator, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Akwa, has asked youths and other stakeholders to expect the completion of more abandoned projects within the region in the New Year. Akwa in a zoom meeting that had…
PUNCH NEWS The large quantum of uncompleted projects in Nigeria was estimated to cost N12 trillion as of August 2021. The Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors who gave the estimate also hinted that there are about 56,000 abandoned projects in…
THE VANGUARD The House of Representatives has abandoned the probe it initiated into capital projects by Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, and Rivers states. This is as Ndokwa National Youth Movement, NNYM,…
PREMIUM TIMES At least N15.3 billion paid to contractors to execute some high priority projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) cannot be accounted for, a new report by the Civil Society Coalition on Audit in Nigeria (CSCAN) has…
VANGUARD NEWS RESIDENTS of Umiaghwa, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State, have bitterly complained about the dilapidated road to the agrarian community abandoned in 2018 by the Niger-Delta Development Commission, NDDC, and a six-classroom built by the interventionist agency that…
VANGUARD The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has said that the era of duplicating projects in states in the region was over. Its Interim Administrator of NDDC, Efiong Akwa said this in Akure, the Ondo state capital during a courtesy…
THE VANGUARD The Federal Government yesterday promised to complete about 9,000 projects lying fallow in the Niger Delta region. This was disclosed by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswil Akpabio who briefed State House correspondents after the Federal…
PREMIUM TIMES While hundreds of NDDC projects remain abandoned and uncompleted across the oil-producing states, partly due to non-release of funds, the agency ‘abandoned’ $70 million in a bank for over a decade, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill…