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Drama As NDDC Management Fails To Account For ₦183bn

July 14, 2020 4:25 pm

The Interim Management Committee (IMC) on Tuesday failed to account for the sum of ₦182 billion while defending the agency’s 2019 budget before the Senate Committee on Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Prof. Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei, the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NDDC who appeared with other management officers of the agency had during the explanation of the agency’s budget performance got lost in how the ₦183 billion of the earlier appropriated 2019 budget was expended.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on NDDC, Senator Peter Nwaoboshi in his opening remark explained that Chief Executives of agencies of government would …

Pondei’s NDDC Interim Management Committee Sacked

NDDC Blames COVID-19 For Delay In Paying Scholarship Beneficiaries

July 14, 2020 9:53 am
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has attributed the delay in meeting its obligations to the beneficiaries of its 2019 postgraduate foreign scholarship programme to the lockdown created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inquest by the National Assembly.

The NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili in a statement in Port Harcourt said the commission was making concerted efforts to effect the required payments.

He said contrary to claims in some quarters, the NDDC had not abandoned the scholars, describing them as the commission’s ambassadors.

He said: “We are doing everything possible to make sure that the beneficiaries of the

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Insecurity: Nigerian Leaders Out Of Ideas – Shehu Sani

Shehu Sani Reacts To Joy Nunieh Slapping Akpabio

July 14, 2020 4:44 am

Former Kaduna Senator, Shehu Sani has mocked Godswill Akpabio, the Minister of Niger Delta following the revelation that he was slapped by Mrs. Joy Nunieh, a former Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee, IMC, of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.

Mrs. Nunieh, during an interview on Monday, had said that she is the first and only woman to have slapped Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.

Read Also: NDDC: Why I slapped Godswill Akpabio – Joy Nunieh

She said this while raising counter accusations against the Minister who had earlier described her as a woman …

NASS Will Push For Implementation Of Protesters’ Demands – Lawan

₦80bn Fraud: Lawan Blows Hot As Senate Begins Probe

July 9, 2020 12:19 pm

Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, says allegations of misappropriation of funds levelled against the Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) were unacceptable.

He said this on Thursday while declaring open an investigative public hearing on the alleged financial recklessness.

Lawal said mismanagement of public funds to the tune of ₦80 billion prompted the upper chamber to probe the commission.

He underscored the need for the prudent application of public funds by Ministries, Departments and Agencies of Government (MDAs).

Lawan stated that the era when public resources are expended anyhow is long gone.

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EFCC Closes Case Against Ex-NDDC Executive, One Other

EFCC Closes Case Against Ex-NDDC Executive, One Other

July 9, 2020 7:40 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Tuesday, closed its case against Tuoyo Omatsuli, a former executive director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC) and Francis Momoh, director, Building Associates Limited, before Justice Saliu Saidu of the Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos.

This was enclosed in a press statement released by Dele Oyewale, Head, Media and Publicity.

The defendants, who were charged alongside their respective companies, Don Parker Properties Limited and Building Associates Limited, were arraigned on November 10, 2018 on  45-count-charges, bordering on conspiracy and money laundering to the tune of N3, 645, 000,000 (Three Billion , Six …

NDDC ₦40bn Scandal - Revelations Made Against IMC

NDDC ₦40bn Scandal: Revelations Made Against IMC

May 18, 2020 9:23 am

More allegations have been made against the embattled Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The Senate had set up a seven-man adhoc committee to investigate IMC financial transactions, which amounted to N40billion.

Read Also: ₦40bn Fraud: Senate Probes NDDC Management Committee

In a statement on Sunday by Richard Arinze, on behalf of a group of concerned staff, IMC was accused of continued desecration of the administrative guidelines for government-owned institutions as provided for in the civil service appointment, promotion and discipline rules.

It said while the compulsory leave and retirement handed some staff some weeks …

N3.7bn Recovered From NDDC Contractors

₦3.7bn Recovered From NDDC Contractors

March 10, 2020 11:07 am
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that law enforcement agencies have recovered over ₦3.7billion as well as various assets worth billions of Naira from contractors and former directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

The President made this known at the inauguration of NDDC Advisory Committee, comprising of the nine Governors of the Niger Delta Region and the Ministers of Niger Delta Affairs and Environment at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday.

He said: “To date, the EFCC and other agencies of Government have recovered over N3.7billion in cash as well as various assets worth billions of Naira from some …

NDDC: Akpabio Moved Against Oshiomhole, Sylva, Omo-Agege

December 21, 2019 2:03 pm

The battle for the control of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) took a dramatic turn during the week with President Muhammadu Buhari allegedly jettisoning the nominees whose names were confirmed by the Senate on October 29 for the board of the commission.

The Senate-approved board whose members had been waiting to be inaugurated by the President, was constituted with inputs from Niger Delta leaders, including the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole; the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege; former Bayelsa State governor, Niger Delta minister Senator Goodwill Akpabio and Chief Timipre Sylva, …

NDDC: Revelations Emerge As Buhari Sacks Board

December 19, 2019 1:57 pm

Centre for Human Rights and Anti-Corruption Crusade (CHURAC) has commended the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to dissolve the board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

CHURAC president, Cleric E. Alaowei, in a statement sent to NAN on Thursday, said the sack was a victory for public interest litigators.

The statement revealed that NDCC was in a mess and alleged massive corruption in the agency.

He recalled that the body and other well-meaning Nigerians had challenged the legality of the President to appoint Chairman of the Board from Edo State without following the rotational circle as provided by the …

NDDC: A Dangerous Action Buhari Must Stop

November 27, 2019 10:54 am

Nigeria is gripped in a macabre dance in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) where an ‘interim management committee’ is running the agency when the nominees for the board have been screened and confirmed for over two weeks now. This is without precedence in Nigeria or anywhere else. And it bothers a lot of people, especially considering the promise made by the current federal government to follow due process and the law.

The law governing the NDDC, which is the NDDC Act of 2000, as amended, has no provision for the appointment of an interim committee. No law in Nigeria

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NDDC: A Vote for Interim Managemnt Committee

November 9, 2019 4:18 pm

Henry Kissinger, a renowned former US Diplomat said that the success of any government is its ability to bring about new realities. When President Buhari in his quest for a new beginning, ordered a forensic audit into the activities of NDDC from inception to date, little did political influencers in the region imagine it would come to fruition. When he took a further step by directing the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs to inaugurate an Interim Management Committee to create the enabling environment for the audit, they broke the secure locks of hades and unleashed ancient demons to invade television …

Reinventing NDDC: President Buhari Serves A La Carte Menu

Reinventing NDDC: President Buhari Serves A La Carte Menu

November 7, 2019 10:54 am
The Niger Delta States of Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Delta and Bayelsa despite getting huge amounts as derivation fund from the federation account for many years – higher than all other states in Nigeria, are plagued by rural poverty so unprecedented, suffers from unimaginable environmental degradation, social services are almost absent, educational structures in the rural areas are appalling, and many ills that space will not permit NDDC.
Various Commissions (Oil Minerals Producing and Development Commission (1992), the Niger Delta Development Commission (2000) and, Ministry of Niger Delta (2008), set up to address the issues of lack of potable drinking
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