Nddc in a sentence

Instead of development, stories coming out of there would always be: NDDC Board constituted; NDDC Board dissolved; NDDC gets Interim Management Committee (IMC); Audit Review approved for NDDC, then IMC comes under investigation by legislators etc.

As Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, he completed the 30-year-old, abandoned NDDC Headquarters started by Chief Horsfall in 1993, within two years and relocated the NDDC there.

Joy Nunieh the former acting managing director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has finally appeared before the House of Reps Committee on NDDC.

Ojougboh had disclosed during a television discourse on the activities of the NDDC, that the money paid into his account was for a trip to see the NDDC graduating students abroad.

He said that he also converted the money into dollars and handed it over to Tuoyo, the NDDC’s Executive Director of Finance and Administration as well as the NDDC’s MD.

The NDDC boss however assured the Chairman, Supreme Council of Ikwerre Traditional Rulers, Eze Blessing Wagor, Nye-Nwe Ali of an ongoing NDDC project to restore electricity to Ikwerre kingdom, beginning with Ubima and Isiokpo.

Speaking, Managing Director of NDDC, Mr Nsima Ekere, said that NDDC had carried out lots of interventions in both human and capital development in the Niger Delta.

According to the judge, the law is clear that the power to file any case to challenge infractions in the NDDC cannot be delegated by proxy to anybody.

Ahmadu advised the NDDC against breaking the Public Procurement Act since doing so would result in harsh penalties.

Also speaking, the representative of Rivers State on the Governing Board of the NDDC, Chukwudi Dimkpa, said the commission had been proactively tackling the challenges that come with flooding in the Niger Delta region.

A Niger Delta Chieftain, Mr Nature Dumale, on Sunday hailed the decision of President Bola Tinubu to return the supervision of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) back to the Presidency.

He also apologised to the contractors for the shortcomings of the NDDC and called for a minute silence for contractors who lost their lives while waiting to be paid.

He called for the direct involvement of youths in the formulation of youth empowerment programmes of the NDDC.

It would be recalled that the Senate had at its session on Tuesday, constituted an ad-hoc committee to probe the financial activities of the NDDC for 2021 and 2022 budget estimates.

Ogbuku, who was taken round the training facility by the Director, Rivers State ICT Centre, Mrs. Aleruchi Akani, pledged that the NDDC would ensure that the centre worked optimally.

Speaking during the inauguration of the NDDC Board at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Niger Delta Development, Ebie said that the Commission would achieve more when there is collaboration and harmony in the development process.

The Chairman of the NDDC Governing Board, Mr. Chiedu Ebie (right), presenting a plaque to the former Executive Director, Projects, Mr. Charles Ogunmola, during a send-off party for the immediate top management staff of the Commission in Port Harcourt.

The President said he expects that the new Board and Management team would ensure a new era of successful administration in the NDDC, in line with his Renewed Hope agenda.

They will not forget in a hurry that the NDDC built and commissioned a health centre for them when the entire Gbaramatu kingdom had no modern healthcare facility.

When NDDC is too much steeped in politics and undue politicization, that is where the problem is.