President Muhammadu Buhari has officially opened the new headquarters complex of the Niger Delta Development Commission in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The complex comes with a thirteen-storey building, which houses general and executive offices, plus provisions for commercial banks and meeting halls. President Buhari joined the ceremony in Port Harcourt through a virtual link from the Presidential…
Some protesters earlier today blocked Mbiama-Yenagoa junction on the East-West Road in protest over the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the NDDC. The protesters stopped the movement of vehicles on the federal highway, which runs from Akwa Ibom though Rivers, Bayelsa, and down to Delta state. In a separate interview with Lasgidi FM News Desk, a…
• Senate approves NDDC’s 2020 Budget The two chambers of the National Assembly have passed the 2021 Budget of the Federal Government, after ten weeks and four days. The ‘Budget of Economic Recovery and Resilience’ passed by the Senate, is thirteen point five-eight-eight trillion naira. The amount is over five hundred and five billion naira more than…
The Nigerian Senate has denied that its members collected twenty-million naira each as Covid-19 palliative from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The Senate spokesman, Senator AJIBOLA BASIRU, made the denial in reaction to claims by NDDC’s Director of Projects, CAIRO OJUGBOH, who also alleged that fifteen million naira was given to each member of the House…
The Federal Executive Council has approved seven hundred and twenty-two point three million naira for the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. The Council approved that payment for the investigation, which is in eight dimensions, would be made directly from the Presidency. This is because the National Assembly is on break and the 2020…
Good times are here for Nigerians who are studying overseas on scholarship from the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC. This is because President MUHAMMADU BUHARI has directed the NDDC to pay the school fees and allowances of the scholarship beneficiaries. This was made known by the NDDC’s Director of Corporate Affairs, CHARLES ODILI, after recent protest by…