NDDC: Silence of presidency over alleged N20bn payment to contractors worrisome – Ijaw youths
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to launch an investigation into allegations of illegal payments of N20billion to ghost contractors in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a press conference in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, its national spokesman, Mr Ebilade Ekerefe, expressed displeasure over the debt being […]
NDDC officials get Senate summon over N100bn contract scam
‘Effiong, Akpabio have turned NDDC to Akwa Ibom Nigeria Limited’ – Contractors tells FG
A group, Niger Delta Indigenous Contractors Association, has threatened to stage a nationwide protest if the Interim Administrator of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Akwa Effiong and Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, refuse to pay up their outstanding debts. Recall that some contractors on Tuesday had staged a protest at the […]
‘We used our houses as collateral’ – Contractors lament at NDDC headquarters over unpaid debts
Contractors under the umbrella of NDDC Indigenous Contractors Association, on Tuesday, crippled business activities at the headquarters of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over unpaid debts. The contractors, who were seen with placards with different inscriptions like, “NDDC pay us our money,”; “NDDC contractors are dying,” among others, maintained […]
NDDC vows to recover equipment abandoned at ports
IYC query Buhari, Amaechi’s silence on NDDC board
The Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide has called out the Minister of Transportation and former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Amaechi over his silence on the agitation of stakeholders for a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). In a statement on Tuesday, the IYC President, Peter Igbifa, wondered why Amaechi had remained unusually […]
Multinational oil companies owing NDDC 3 trillion – Akpabio
Contractors have not been paid because FG, oil companies owe NDDC over N4 trillion – Interim Administrator
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has said that they have not paid contractors working for the Commission because the Federal Government owes the Commission over N1.9 trillion. This follows the protest at the NDDC headquarters by some contract staff of the Commission, who lamented the negligence of the Commission to pay them for the […]
Contractors take protest to NDDC headquarters over N2tr debts
Some contractors under the aegis Contractors Association of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Monday converged at the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in protest against the 10-year debts owed them by the agency. According to reports, the protesters, who barricaded the gate of the commission’s office, with placards in hand, said […]
NDDC tasks Niger Delta youths to shun cultism, drug abuse
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has charged youths in the Niger Delta to shun cultism, drugs and other social vices. The commission’s Interim Administrator, Effiong Akwa, gave the charge during a programme organised to mark the International Youth Day 2021 in Calabar, Cross River State. Akwa, who was represented by his Special Adviser on […]
Women protest over delay in release of NDDC forensic audit
You lied, Rivers farmers tell NDDC as it claims to have trained thousands of farmers