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Benefitting Communities Can Choose Their Projects –NDDC Boss

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Chief Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) said that the commission cannot choose projects for benefiting communities. Ogbuku stated this at the 13th Extraordinary General Assembly of the Forum of Monarchs in the South South on Tuesday in Asaba. The theme of the meeting is ” Strengthening Collaboration for Development in the South South Region: the Role of the Traditional Institution. He said that communities have the right to dictate to the commission what they wanted and not the commission to dictate to them. Ogbuku said that…

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FMUYL Hails Tinubu Over Ebie Appointment,Confirmation As NDDC Chairman

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  Foremost Niger Delta group, Federated Movement Of Urhobo Youth Leaders (FMUYL) has commended the Nigerian Senate for the appointment and confirmation of Barr. Chiedu Ebie as the board chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The Senate confirmed nominees for appointment into the board and management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement made signed by the Coordinator of the group, Prince Sonny Jifas Ogbon, JP, said, Ebie’s merit has overruled sentiments as he is so qualified and understood the terrain more than any.. “We…

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APPOINTMENT OF NDDC BOARD: MR. PRESIDENT THANK YOU FOR SETTLING FOR THE LEADERSHIP OF DR SAMUEL OGBUKU

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  The reappointment of Dr Samuel Ogbuku shows clearly the grasp of President Bola Tinubu of the challenges of the oil producing areas of the Niger Delta. The policy direction of Dr. Samuel Ogbuku as enunciated in the last eight months of his leadership must have resonated well with the President’s aspiration for the region which must have led the President to have settled for his leadership. For the NDDC not to be encumbered we urge the President to domicile the NDDC in the office of the secretary to the…

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Pres Tinubu Appoints Delta EX-SSG, Ebie Emerges NDDC Chairman, Igbuya State Rep

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President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Chiedu Ebie former Secretary to Delta State Government and former Speaker of the Delta State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Monday Igbuya as Chairman and Delta State Representative at the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, respectively. In a statement by Ajuri Ngelale Special Adviser to the President Chiedu Ebie was appointed Chairman while Rt Hon Monday Igbuya former Speaker, Delta Rep. with immediate effect.   According to the statement, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the appointment of a new Board and Management team of…

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NDDC BOARD: Itsekiri Youths Commences Mother Of All Protest Against Nominees

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By Emma Arubi   The apex youth body of the Itsekiri Ethnic nationality known as the Itsekiri National Youths Council,  INYC, Tuesday commenced what they called mother of all protest against President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominees to the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, submitted to the National Assembly for screening and confirmation as it contradict the Act establishing the Commission regarding persons qualify to be so appointed. Addressing newsmen at the NPA Warri entrance, the president of INYC, Comrade Weyinmi Agbateyiniro said the protest is taking place simultaneously…

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NDDC: GROUP URGES BUHARI TO INAUGURATE SUBSTANTIVE BOARD CONFIRMED BY THE SENATE SINCE 2019

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A Niger Delta pressure group, has called on president Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate the Niger Delta Development Commission board confirmed by the senate for equity sake and in compliance with the Act of the National Assembly 2000. The group, Niger Delta Integrity, had in a statement signed by its president and secretary, Mr Akpoebide Okotiene, and Edet Ekpenyong described the delay as an affront on the long-deprived people of the region who have had to endure three years of the foremost agency being arbitrarily run in breach of the law…

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2023: Inaugurate NDDC Board, Save APC In Niger Delta, Party Members Urges Buhari 

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  …accuse Akpabio of setting party back in Niger Delta   NIGER Deltans under the aegis of Committed members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Tuesday, implored President Muhammadu Buhari and the leadership of the party to save Niger Delta region from its sorry state by inaugurating the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC Board of Dr Pius Odubu and Olorogun Bernard Okumagba, which was confirmed by the Senate since November 2019 so as to win back the trust of the people of the region.     The APC members in…

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