PUNCH President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a forensic audit of the operations of the Niger Delta Development Commission from 2001 to 2019. The decision followed persistent criticisms of the operations of the commission. A statement by the Special Adviser (Media…
PREMIUM TIMES Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC) and partners have remitted about $2 billion (about N720 billion) to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in 16 years, an official said. SPDC’s General Manager, External Relations, Igo Weli, disclosed…
PREMIUM TIMES The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has called for a probe into the utilisation of the N20 billion emergency funds allegedly expended by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on projects in the state in the last six…
PUNCH Niger Delta activist, Annkio Briggs, has called on the National Assembly to name contractors of the Niger Delta Development Commission behind hundreds of abandoned projects in the nine oil-producing states. Briggs, who made the call on Thursday, said it…
VANGUARD Unless the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) gives details of N1trilion contract debts, it is not likely to get its future budgetary allocations, the House of Representatives has said. The Chairman of the House Ad-hoc Committee on abandoned projects…
VANGUARD Human rights activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, and two other Itsekiri leaders, Rev Jackson Omasanjuwa and Edward Omagbemi have dragged the Federal Government before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over the appointment of Olorogun Okumagba as the Managing…
THE GUARDIAN Spurious overpriced contracts without recourse to due process have been blamed for the over N1 trillion debt profile of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Nothing else typifies this more than the N60 billion emergency contracts awarded within…
DAILY POST Governors of the oil producing states have resolved to meet President Muhammadu Buhari over his recent appointments of members of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board. Gov. Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa disclosed this while speaking with newsmen…
PUNCH President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a 16-man new board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, with Dr. Pius Odubu from Edo State as the chairman. A statement signed by the Permanent Secretary (General Services Office), office of the Secretary…
THE NATION A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered a temporary freezing of accounts and seizure of immovable property belonging to a retired judge and a director with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The judge, identified as Margaret…