Akpabio Sets to Avert Fresh Oil War as Militants Insist on NDDC Board

Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, is currently battling to avert a renewed Oil War in the oil and gas region due to his reluctance to engineer the constitution of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Board of Directors. Akpabio has been playing politics with the issue in spite of the governors insistence that they can only […]

Reconstitution of NDDC Board: Beyond the Theatrics – Group

A nongovernmental and advocacy group which goes by the name Citizens Quest for Truth Initiative has thrown its weight behind the recent call for the reconstitution of the substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by stakeholders in the region, saying “is highly commendable.” The NGO in a statement signed and circulated to journalists by […]

Aggrieved N’Delta Youths Threaten to Ground Oil Production over NDDC Board

The seeming reluctance by the Buhari administration to constitute the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as repeatedly demanded by the governors of the oil-producing states and interest groups is fueling fresh unease in the oil and gas region. The vastly polluted oil region can erupt in a renewed orgy of violence any […]

NDDC’s N.9 Billion COVID-19 Fund Lands Oil Governors in Trouble

Governors of the nine oil-bearing states- Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo, and Rivers- will soon be sweating it out on the floor of the Senate on how they expended Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) N900 million COVID-19 palliatives. The interventionist agency is claiming that it gave each of the nine […]

Wike Hits NDDC, Ijaw Youths, Abuja Contractors, Says Nothing To Show For Trillions Pumped In

In a deft political masterstroke, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State took a well-measured aim at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Management, Ijaw youths, and Abuja contractors, and shattered the ego of the three forces. To the NDDC management, the governor dropped his killer weapon, ‘’trillions of naira have been spent, and we cannot […]

Wike Hits NDDC, Ijaw Youths, Abuja Contractors, Says Nothing To Show For Trillions Pumped In

In a deft political masterstroke, Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State took a well-measured aim at the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Management, Ijaw youths, and Abuja contractors, and shattered the ego of the three forces. To the NDDC management, the governor dropped his killer weapon, ‘’trillions of naira have been spent, and we cannot […]

Senator Akpabio and NDDC Scavengers

A few days ago, some youth groups in the Niger Delta region aired what they termed their resentment in the appointment of Mr Effiong Okon Akwa as Sole Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari. One of the groups, Uhrobo Youth Leaders Council (UYLC) was said to have dragged the […]

Akpabio, NDDC, Ijaw Youths And The Road To Darfur 

It seems Ijaw youths are inadvertently laying landmines for an inter-ethnic conflict in the Niger Delta with the way they are attacking Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Godswill Akpabio, and raising dust over the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Politics of exclusion is certainly not what the oil region needs to arm-twist the Nigerian state to […]

Buhari: Why We’re Repositioning NDDC, Amnesty Programme

With just 29 months to vacate office, President Muhammadu Buhari in a seeming peace-buying flattery to ensure steady oil production says his administration is now making efforts to stem the tide of decay, neglect and transform the physical and economic fortunes of Nigeria’s oil and gas region. According to him, government is repositioning the Niger […]

Towards the Depoliticising of the Forensic Audit on NDDC

Niger Delta people will, for a long time, remain wholeheartedly grateful to President Muhammadu Buhari, for the immense goodwill he has shown to the good people of the Oil rich but beleaguered region, through the various projects and programmes aimed at the total development and emancipation of the Niger Delta region. We must acknowledge the […]