NIGERIAN TRIBUNE The president of Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) worldwide, Deacon Peter Igbifa, has been kidnapped by gunmen on Tuesday along Port Harcourt International airport road. It was gathered that the modus operandi of his abductors were akin to that…
THIS DAY Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs is used to having his way. As Governor of Akwa Ibom State between 2007 and 2015, things had to be done his way or no way. He ruled when…
GUARDIAN The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has again berated Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, over the endless forensic audit and extension of Effiong Akwa’s tenure as Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).It alleged that the…
THE GUARDIAN House of Representatives Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), yesterday, assured that the commission will be reorganised to ensure that it delivers on its mandates to the Niger Delta people. Its Chairman, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, said the committee…
VANGUARD Advocacy group, Global Forum for Accountability and Transparency (GFAT), has demanded the immediate sack of the sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Effiong Akwa, for alleged “circumventing the law”. It said the NDDC Sole Administrator deliberately…
GUARDIAN Senate Committee on Public Petitions has disclosed that senators from Niger Delta are not aware of the N6.2b palliatives fund provided in the 2020 budget of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Chairman of the Committee, Patrick Akinyelure, who…
THE SUN The minority caucus of the House of Representatives has described the appointment of a sole administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari as a disservice to the region. The opposition lawmakers, in statement by Ndudi…
THE SUN Aggrieved women drawn from 40 crude oil producing communities in Brass, Ekeremor and Southern Ijaw local government areas of Bayelsa State on Friday stormed the Yenagoa office of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), demanding N20billion as compensation from…
THISDAY The Minister for the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, has denied accusing members of the National Assembly of being contractors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Addressing journalists yesterday after a closed- door meeting with Acting Clerk…
THE GUARDIAN The senior special assistant on special duties to Prof. Kemeberadikumo Pondei, the acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Olomu B. Micheal, has resigned his appointment. In a letter dated 20th July 2020, addressed to…