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DESOPADEC MD, Askia Flags-Off Projects Commissioning As Board Marks First Anniversary

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By Politicsgovernance.com Managing Director/CEO, Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Bashorun Askia Ogieh has appealed to Oil producing communities in the state to protect projects sited in their various communities to encourage the Commission to do more for them. Speaking at the flagging off of the commissioning of projects to mark the first anniversary of the Board, Askia said, “The essence of the commissioning was to showcase to the people what the Board has been able to achieve for them this past one year. “You will recall that…

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DESOPADEC Takes Lassa Fever Campaign To Mandate Areas

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Against the widespread and individual panic of lassa fever, the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has embarked on enlightenment campaign to compliment the efforts of the state government on measures to curb the spread of the dreaded virus in Delta.   The Chairman of the Commission, and Managing Director/CEO, Evang. Michael Diden, and Bashorun Askia Ogieh has mandated the Medical Health and Safety Unit of the Commission to embark on an enlightenment campaign in all mandate areas of representation on the epidemiology and control of Lassa fever.…

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DESOPADEC MD Assures Host Communities Of Meaningful Dev’t

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  Delta State Oil Producing Development Commission, DESOPADEC, has assured its host communities of adequate attention and meaningful rapid development. The Managing Director of DESOPADEC,  Bashorun Askia Ogieh, gave this assurance while inspecting an ongoing project at the faculty of Engineering at the Delta State University, Oleh Campus, Isoko South embarked upon by the commission. Bashorun Askia who was in company of President General of the Isoko Development Union, IDU, Chief Iduh Amadhe, stated that, host communities in the state will experience integrated and significant development under the current board…

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DESOPADEC MD, Askia Ogieh Rebrands Media Unit With New Working Tools

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  For quality broadcast of DESOPADEC programs and event, the Managing Director/CEO of the Commission, Bashorun Askia Ogieh, has re-branded the media unit of the commission by providing modern gadgets to staff reporters of the Media and Public Affairs units in line with the current trend of diseminating of information to the general public. Presenting the items to staff reporters in her unit, Mrs Chinenye Ezonfade applauds the MD/CEO, Bashorun Askia Ogieh and the Board for the items. According to her, “these working tools would enhance performance and productivity of…

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Budget Defence: MNDA Should Learn From Askia-led DESOPADEC Board

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By Perez Brisibe   IN the advent of the Governor Ifeanyi Okowa-led administration of Delta State in 2015, the governor, in his bid to reposition and restructure the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC to actualize its vision, decided to unbundle the agency in line with the model of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC.   Dissolving the board, Governor Okowa, in a statement by his then Secretary to the State Government, Festus Agas, explained that he was restructuring the DESOPADEC board in line with the NDDC model…

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Chief Askia Ogieh Honnored By Society Groups

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Chief Askia Ogieh the Managing Director and CEO of Delta State Oil Producing Commission, has received an award of Performance from Civil Society Organisations for his humanitarian approach to governance and leadership qualities. The groups, Centre for Peace, Transparency and Accountability together with Civil Society Groups for Good Governance, (CTPA) with Civil Society Groups for Good Governance,  were repsented by its Executive Director, Patrick Ogheneyore and his executives and Comrade Ogakwu Dominic for the Civil Society Group for Good Governance. Presenting the award on Tuesday to the DESOPADEC boss at…

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We Must Have A Paradigm Shift From The Old DESOPADEC — Askia

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By Omoghene Benedict,   MANAGING Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Delta State Oil Producing Area Development Commission, DESOPADEC, Chief Askia Ogieh, has urged staff of the commission to have a paradigm shift from the old DESOPADEC to the new positive approach being implemented by the current board of the agency. The DESOPADEC boss gave the charge, Friday during an interactive session with staff of the commission at the 3-day in-house training session for staff of the Department of Investment and Industrial Promotion. Speaking on his vision for the…

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Development Of Ijaw Ethnic Nationality, My Top Priority- Bebenimbo

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By: OVEDHE HEZEKIAH. The newly sworn-in Commissioner representing Ijaw Ethnic Nationality in the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission, DESOPADEC Dr. Paul Bebenimibo has said the development of Ijaw ethnic nationality remains his top priority as he assume office. Dr. Bebenimibo made this assertion in an interview with newsmen shortly after being sworn-in with other members of DESOPADEC Board in Asaba. “Ijaw as an Oil Producing nation is lacking behind in terms of infrastructural development and I will ensure that I give Ijaw people in the various Ijaw Oil…

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