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General news2 weeks agoNDDC: Meeting the demands of the Niger Delta people
NDDC: Responding to the demands of the populations of the Niger Delta News analysis by Emmanuel Mogbede, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was established in 2000 by the federal government to develop the oil-rich Niger Delta region. Home to the Niger Delta Ministry, one of the Commission’s main mandates is to train and educate young people in the oil-rich regions of the Niger Delta to combat hostilities and militancy, while developing key infrastructure to promote diversification and productivity. The other mandates include: 1. Formulation of policies and guidelines for the development of the Niger Delta area. Design, planning and implementation, in accordance with established rules and regulations, of sustainable development projects and programs in the Niger Delta area in the field of transport, including roads, jetties and waterways, health, employment, industrialization, agriculture and fisheries, housing and urban development, water supply, electricity and telecommunications. Survey.
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Environment3 weeks agoNiger Delta Youth Council urges FG to form NDDC board of directors
By Collins Yakubu-Hammer The Niger Delta Youth Council (NDYC) urged the federal government to inaugurate the board of directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to prevent a resumption of hostilities in the region. This is contained in a statement signed by its national coordinator, Mr. Jator Abido, Wednesday in Abuja. Abido warned that if the federal government does not inaugurate a substantial board of directors for the Commission, it could lead to the resumption of hostilities in the region. Therefore, the council urges the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to be proactive in the inauguration of the board of directors or else he will be held responsible for any crisis in the region. According to Abido, the Council is forced to continue its efforts to calm the fragile nerves in the face of the arbitrary administration of the NDDC. “It will be recalled that some.
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General news1 month agoNDDC audit: FG donates 33 vehicles to forensic auditors
By Desmond Ejibas The Federal Government said that it had donated 33 utility vehicles to the security committee working with the forensic auditors currently appraising projects executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, delivered the vehicles to the auditors in Port Harcourt, according to a statement by NDDC’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Dr Ibitoye Abosede, on Friday. Akpabio, represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Dr Babayo Ardo, said that the vehicles would aid the committee in the physical verification phase of the exercise. “The over 33 utility vehicles are meant to assist the security personnel working with the 16 field auditors charged with identifying and verifying the projects implemented by the NDDC across the Niger Delta region. “We thank President Muhammadu Buhari for approving the forensic audit to be carried out to look at all NDDC’s projects. “Our.
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General news1 month agoFood Security: Bayelsa community seeks more land for farming
By Nathan Nwakamma Some farmers in Sabagreia Community in Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa on Wednesday called on government and other support agencies to assist in making more land available for farming, to boost food production. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the farmers, who identified access to land as a major obstacle, made the call at a one-day food systems dialogue held in the community. The discourse was facilitated by the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN), Niger Delta Development Commision (NDDC) and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) programme, aimed at achieving food security. It was organised by the Livelihood Improvement Family Enterprise in Niger Delta, LIFE-ND, a non governmental organisation implementing the FGN,NDDC,IFAD project. Participants included serving Councillor representing Ward 9 in the area, Mr Wueba Ayakumo; Deputy Chief of the mmunity, Chief Amaebi Ayawari; Youth Leader, Mr Ugo Funebi; among other leaders from the.
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General news2 months agoAkpabio wasn’t detained by EFCC – Spokesman
By Emmanuel Mogbede Contrary to online reports earlier in the week, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, was not taken into custody by the EFCC. His spokesman, Anietie Ekong, said it was actually Akpabio who sought audience with the EFCC to discuss issues surrounding transfer of funds belonging to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He made the clarification in Abuja on Saturday in a statement in which he said it was also untrue that Akpabio attempted to buy his freedom from custody by bribing EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa with 350,000 dollars. Ekong described the online article entitled: “How EFCC detained Godswill Akpabio for two hours for attempting to bribe the new EFCC chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa with 350,000 dollars’’ as defamatory. He said the article was fabricated and that there was no reason for the minister to bribe the EFCC boss as alleged. He explained that on Wednesday,.
- General news2 months ago
FG inaugurates physical verification of NDDC forensic audit – Minister
By Desmond Ejibas The federal government on Saturday announced it had flagged the physical verification phase of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) forensic audit. Niger Delta Affairs Minister Senator Godswill Akpabio opened the exercise in Uyo, Akwa Ibom, according to a statement from NDDC Director of Corporate Affairs Dr Ibitoye Abosede. According to the statement, Akpabio said 16 auditors on the ground had been selected to immediately identify and verify the more than 12,000 projects in the nine states of the Niger Delta. He said, “It is President Muhammadu Buhari’s position that in order for us to have a properly constituted council for the NDDC, we must first address the shortcomings of the NDDC since its inception. “To that end, there is nothing our detractors haven’t done to stop the forensic audit. This has led some people to wonder if the forensic audit has been canceled, ”he said. Akpabio.
- General news2 months ago
Akpabio calls for better funding for NDDC
Isaiah Eka Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, called for improved funding for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to strengthen infrastructure development in the region. Akpabio made the call in his keynote address at NDDC’s strategic capacity building workshop on Friday in Uyo. He said the funding system was poor because the budgetary provisions for the commission were phased and did not expire. The minister, who called for an amendment to the laws establishing the agency if necessary, added that he was determined to quit the commission better than he met it. “The commission is broken because the funding system is poor. We have to leave the NDDC better than we found it even if it means lawmakers have to tinker with the law. “Current funding schemes and budgeting processes need to embrace good governance to do our best, while asking for more funds to carry out.
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General news7 months agoS/South leaders engage FG delegation, demand restructuring
South-South Governors and leaders on Tuesday, insisted that Nigeria needs to be restructured along the lines of true federalism and devolution of powers to the federating units. According to a statement from Delta Government House, Asaba, which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday, the leaders and people from the region made the demand at a consultative meeting with a Federal Government delegation of ministers and other stakeholders from the region at Government House, Port Harcourt, Rivers. The Chairman of the South-South Governors’ Forum and Governor of Delta, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa, who presented the region’s demand, said that the nation is not at peace because the country has failed to practice true federalism. He said now is the time to restore the country back to a true federation with all the attributes and nuances of a federal state. “For us in the South-South, the #ENDSARS protest is a metaphor of.
- General news7 months ago
Edo oil producing Constituency petitions Minister over exclusion from budgetary provision
The people of Ovia Federal Constituency, in Edo, have petitioned the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Mr Godswill Akpabio, over alleged exclusion of their constituent by the Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) from its budgetary provisions. Mr Dennis Idahosa, Member representing the Constituency in the House of Representatives and 99 members of his constituents signed the petitioned which was made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Benin. In the petition, the constituents said in the last four years, the ministry and the NDDC had expended a budget of over N500 billion with no single project cited in Ovia federal constituency. They regretted that the abandonment of the area was a disservice to the people even though the constituency was home to some oil producing areas in Edo. The petition called on the minister to immediately begin the process of reconstructing Udo-Inikhorogha and Ekheuan – Gelegele roads which leads to some.
- General news7 months ago
ANEEJ, CRPP condemn Obaseki’s decision to stop NDDC projects in Edo
The African Network for Environment and Economic Justice (ANEEJ) and the Coalition of Registered Political Parties (CRPP) have criticised the decision of Gov. Godwin Obaseki to stop the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) from executing projects in Edo. The two organisations which made their positions known to newsmen in Benin on Sunday, described Obaseki’s decision as wrong and a disservice to the people of Edo. At the weekend, Obaseki said he has ordered contractors of the NDDC to immediately stop executing projects or undertaking contracts in the state. Speaking when he received the management team of Seplat Petroleum Company Ltd., Obaseki said that the NDDC has failed the region in the discharge of its responsibilities. The governor said that the state government will approach the court to seek an order stopping the Federal Government agency from embarking on any project in the state without the consent of the state Executive.
- General news7 months ago
NDDC forensic audit not a witch-hunt – Pondei says
Prof. Kemebradikumor Pondei, acting Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said on Thursday that ongoing forensic audit of the commission was not targeted to witch-hunt any individual or group. Pondei gave the assurance in Port Harcourt while handing over additional tools including 10 Hilux vehicles and five buses to the 16 auditing firms probing the commission’s finances. He said the commission decided to present the additional working tools to the auditors to enable them fast track the audit of the 20-year-old commission. “The forensic audit was set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to look into the activities of NDDC from inception 20 years ago to August 2019. “So, it is on that note that lead forensic consultants were appointed as well as 16 field forensic auditors procured to handle the process. “So, we are here to hand over more tools to the auditors to assist them in the ongoing.
- Politics8 months ago
CSO raises alarm over non-payment of NDDC foreign scholars
The Act for Positive Transformation Initiative, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has raised alarm over the delay in the payment of Nigerian scholars abroad by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The CSO, in a statement issued by Mr Kolawole Johnson, Head, Directorate of Research, Strategy and Programme, drew the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to the non-payment of the scholars. Kolawole urged the President to intervene and save the scholars whose genuine demands were being ignored by the commission. Kolawole criticised the “unnecessary drama” surrounding the payment of NDDC scholars in foreign countries. He blamed the delay on the commission’s officials, accusing them of plundering the resources of the people. Kolawole recalled that the commission issued a statement attributing the delay in payment to verification of scholars which the acting Director of Projects, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, went to London to carry out in September 2020. According to him, the financial.
- General news8 months ago
Flood: NEMA embarks on assessment tour of ravaged communities in Imo
The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has commenced an assessment tour of communities ravaged by flood in Imo. The tour is to enable the agency ascertain the level of damages recorded by the flood and possible solutions. The leader of the team and Head of Imo-Abia Operations Office, Mr Evans Ugoh, said that on the spot assessment revealed that farmlands and other economic crops were washed away by flood in various communities in Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta LGA. He said that household properties worth millions of naira were also damaged, while some houses were submerged by the flood. According to him, the assessment further reveals that the bank of River Niger overflowed, resulting in the high level devastation recorded in three various communities of the two local governments. “We received a `Save Our Soul’ message from Mr Chairles Orie, the Managing Director of Imo State Oil Producing Area Development (ISOPADEC), on.
- General news8 months ago
Omo-Agege’s aide donates relief materials to flood victims in Delta community
Mr Raymos Guanah, Special Assistant to the Deputy Senate President on Political Matters, has donated relief materials, including food items, to victims of flooding in Patani Local Government area of Delta. He said on Monday in Patani that that the items were meant to assuage the sufferings of the people of the area as a result of the flood, which had ravaged some parts of the country, with the area badly affected. Guanah, who was represented by Mr Joseph Ekiyor, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in the council area, said that the presentation of the relief materials was a way of identifying with the people in their present condition. He put the total losses in the council area at more than N500 million in farm lands, fishing nets, fishing traps and household property. Guanah, a former Commissioner for Lands and Survey in Delta, called on the state.
- Politics8 months ago
NDDC boss shuns Reps committee investigating misappropriation of funds
Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, the Managing Director, Interim Management Committee (IMC) of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has shunned the House of Representatives committee investigative hearing into the alleged N139.32 billion misappropriated between 2013 and 2018. Rep Wale Oke, Chairman, House Committee on Public Accounts, announced the absence of the NDDC boss at the scheduled hearing on Wednesday in Abuja. The committee, however, resolved to adjourn sitting to Oct. 29, believing that his absence might not be unconnected with the recent violence in the country, The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the Auditor-General for the Federation, Mr Anthony Ayine, had issued query to the NDCC boss asking him to proffer answers to some of the points raised in the query. NAN repots that details of the querry were contained in the 96-page special periodic checks on the activities and programmes on NDDC from Jan. 1, 2013 to June 30, 2018..
- General news8 months ago
NDDC: Youth leader calls for collaboration to develop region
An Ijaw youth leader, Kingsley Muturu has called for cooperation political leaders and ex-agitators in the Niger Delta region to enable accelerated development by the federal government. Muturu made the call in a statement issued on Wednesday from his country home in Bomadi, Delta. He said that no meaningful development would reach the region without collaboration of stakeholders. The Ijaw leader condemned what he called “feisty partisan bickering” by the political leaders of the region and enjoined them to eschew political bitterness and support all the federal government agencies established for the development of the region. He said interventionist agencies like the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, needed the support of all the leaders from the region to be able to deliver on its mandate. “If all the leaders are working at cross purposes, we will undermine development in the region”. “The chance of the region getting it right in.
- Judiciary8 months ago
Court dismisses suit seeking removal of NDDC Interim Management Committee
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, dismisses a suit seeking the sack of the Interim Management Committee(IMC) appointed for the Niger-Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Justice Inyang Ekwo, while delivering a judgment, held that the plaintiffs did not have the requisite locus standi to file the suit. The judge, who said that the development robbed his court of the jurisdiction to look into their prayers, thereafter struck out the suit. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the suit, filed by Akharame Izedome Lucky, Adward Brisibe, Youths Arise for Undiluted Leadership and Development Initiative and Riverrun Development Initiative, was marked as /690/2020. The defendants include the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF); the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs; NDDC MD, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei; Dr. Cairo Ojougboh; Mrs. Caroline Nagbo and Cecilia Bukola Akintomide. Justice Ekwo held that the two groups, among the plaintiffs, lacked the power, by virtue of their registration status,.
- COVID-198 months ago
COVID-19: NDDC distributes 54 PCR machines to 9 states — MD
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has begun the distribution of 54 Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines and other medical kits to health facilities in nine Niger Delta states, an official said. The NDDC Managing Director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, flagged-off the distribution in Port Harcourt on Monday, according to a statement by the commission’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili. Pondei said that the commission decided to distribute the machines to enable the states to increase the test for COVID-19. “So, we are concluding our COVID-19 intervention with the distribution of PCR machines across the Niger Delta region. “We hope that the benefiting institutions will put them into good use for both testing of patients for COVID-19 and also for research purposes,” he said. The managing director said that the PCR machines would be used to test the presence of viral antigens of SARS–COV-2 to obtain more accurate results for.
- CBN9 months ago
NDDC directs international oil companies to pay into CBN offshore account
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) says it is only in its CBN Offshore Account that international oil companies can pay their monies into. The commission said this in a statement issued by Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, the Acting Managing, on Friday in Abuja. According to Pondei, the clarification has become necessary to guide members of the public, especially international oil companies from being duped. He said this was especially so as a certain security agency was coercing international oil companies into paying three per cent revenue of their commission into a private account in London. “It has come to the attention of the management of the NDDC that certain security agency is coercing international oil companies into paying three per cent revenue of the commission into a private account in London and in the security agency’s account in London. “Kindly note that it is only the account of the NDDC.
- Education9 months ago
Kebbi varsity to reopen Oct. 5
The authorities of Kebbi State University of Science and Technology, Aliero has fixed Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, for the resumption of students for first semester 2019/2020 academic calendar. This is contained in a statement issued by the Director Academic Planning, Dr Abubakar Yakubu, and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi on Friday. NAN reports that Yakubu issued the statement on behalf of the University’s Registrar, Alhaji Musa Labbo-Jega. He said the university would reopen for lectures and revisions from Oct. 5 to Oct. 17, and hold first semester examinations from Oct. 19 to Nov. 7. Labbo-Jega said the students will go on break from Nov. 9 to Nov. 15, adding that Jan. 25 to Feb. 13, 2021 was scheduled for the second semester examination. According to him, Feb. 15 to March 28, 2021 is for marking of examinations, SIWES and teaching practice. The registrar added.
