THIS DAY LIVE By Chima Nwike I read Etim Etim’s piece titled ‘The Hawks are Circling at NDDC Again’ published in THISDAY of February 28, 2020, and came away shaking my head at the tragic ingenuity of the writer’s logic…
THISDAY By Eddy Odivwri In the Beginning… After the prolonged agitation of the people of the Niger Delta and the accusation against the federal government of prolonged neglect, marginalisation and unfair treatment of the region which is the economic nucleus…
THE SUN Opinion THE forensic audit of the NDDC ordered by President Muhammadu Buhari last month has provoked interest groups to launch more attacks on Senator Godswill Akpabio, the agency’s supervising minister. These attacks are vitriolic, trenchant and sometimes personal.…
PREMIUM TIMES The All Progressive Congress State Chairmen Forum has demanded the removal of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio. They accused the minister of exhibiting an “overbearing behavior”, and called on President Muhammadu Buhari to dismiss him.…
VANGUARD NEWS Pan Niger Delta Forum , PANDEF has called on the federal government to make public contractors that handled projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, at the end of its forensic audit of the commission, saying this…
PUNCH A group, the Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Democracy, has kicked against the decision of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Chief Godswill Akpabio, to inaugurate a three-man steering committee to take over the running and management of the…
GUARDIAN Editorial It is hardly surprising that the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to order a forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has received the support of Nigerians. The planned exercise, which should find out all kinds…
NAIJALIVE TV A pan Ijaw group, the Movement for the Survival of the Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Niger Delta (MOSIEND),has sent a commendation letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the ordered forensic probe of the operations of the Niger…
PREMIUM TIMES As it drizzled one October morning in Port Harcourt, Samuel Tamuno stepped out of an office where he had been meeting with his community school’s head over mounting concerns about the students’ number outgrowing available classrooms. “This set…
PUNCH The Senate says it is probing the award of Water Hyacinth Emergency and Desilting Contracts awarded by the Niger Delta Development Commission from 2017 to 2019. Chairman Senate Committee on Public Accounts, Senator Matthew Urhoghide, made this known when…