By BARBARA BALU, Port Harcourt – The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI), has proposed six areas of possible collaboration with the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Chairman of NASENI’s Presidential Implementation Committee on Technology Transfer, Dr. Mohammed Dahiru, unveiled the proposal during the committee’s courtesy visit to...
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By BARBARA KALU, Uyo – Chairman, Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Lauretta Onochie, has declared that the Commission under her watch will no longer be for just a few people but for the entire Niger Delta. Onochie, who made the declaration on Friday during a...
he Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), has cautioned youths in the region to desist from drug abuse and cultism, describing them as twin evils that can destroy their future. The commission, which took its campaign against cultism and drug abuse to Rivers on Saturday, said youths in the Niger...
The Senate Committee on Ethics and Privilege is probing allegations of job racketeering in the Niger Delta Development Commission( NDDC). The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions Senator Ayo Akinyelure disclosed this to journalists on Thursday at the National Assembly in Abuja. He said...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – As part of efforts to improve on the standard of education in Akpabuyo LGA of Cross River State, the Chairman of council, Rt Hon. Emmanuel Offiong Bassey has presented over 500 desks to seven primary schools in the LGA. During the presentation of desks, Honourable...
Elder statesman and Ijaw leader, Chief Edwin Clark has appealed to the President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a substantive Board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) without delay. Clark made the appeal when members of the Delta Central All Progressives Congress (APC) Leaders of Thought (DELCAT) paid him...
The House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee on the recovery of outstanding debts owned the Federal Government by Oil and Gas companies in Nigeria, has invited the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and many others for investigation. Others invited include the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Federal Inland Revenue (FIRS),...
A group, under the aegis of National Transformation Movement, has called on Sen. Godswill Akpabio, to contest the office of the president, in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The group said that having gone through the six geopolitical zones of the country, Akpabio, a former governor of Akwa Ibom,...
PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – In a bid to cushion the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on the people, The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has distributed hundred bags of rice to over 10,000 Cross River youths, women and physically challenged in Central and Northern Senatorial District of the state. The...