LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godswill Akpabio failed to execute a contract he got from the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) worth N500million, according to Senate Committee on Niger Delta Chairman Senator Peter Nwaoboshi. He alleged that Akpabio used his position and influence as Senate Minority Leader to secure the contracts. But, the…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Mr. Ojeh Godwin, has lamented what he called flagrant abuse of statutory procedure and due process, calling for an urgent investigation of the activities of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). ‘’It is disheartening that the leadership of the Interim Management Committee of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some students sponsored to Europr for postgraduate studies by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are reportedly stranded abroad because of the alleged lack of funding from the commission. The students this month sent a letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, complaining that life for them abroad has been…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ijaw Stakeholders for Good Governance, ISGG, has revealed that some Niger Delta leaders sponsoring falsehood and malicious publications against the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio were after the resources and dubuous contracts in the Niger Delta Development Commission NDDC. In a statement issued yesterday in Warri, Delta State,…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of sixteen Niger Delta groups have written a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over the continued operations of the Interim Management Committee headed by Mrs Joi Nuinieh and her Interim Management Committee. The coalition of the Niger Delta groups, in a statement jointly signed by its conveners, Mr Pureh…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three months after the Senate confirmed the nomination of the management board of Niger Delta Development Commission, President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sacked the board and announced that a new one will soon be constituted. This is coming just as Buhari has asked the Senate to confirm the appointments of Adeolu Akande…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) was in the habit of awarding scholarships to children of politicians and their associates thereby wasting the opportunities that should have been used to develop the children of poor rural folks. The revelation was made yesterday by the acting Managing Director/Chief Executive of NDDC, Dr Joi…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the Niger Delta Development Commission deepened on Friday when the House of Representatives differed with the Senate over the status of the Interim Management Committee set up by the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari. The President forwarded the 2019 and…