Investigate Akpabio for missaproprating NDDC funds – MOSIEND tells EFCC
Niger Delta people should take responsibility of fighting corruption in NDDC – EFCC
2023: Group vows to dump APC over Buhari’s refusal to inaugrate NDDC board
A group, Niger Delta Rescue Movement (NDRM) has sworn to abandon the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 elections following the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to inaugurate a substantive board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Speaking after its meeting in Yenegoa, the spokesman of the group, Jonathan Okwa, said the group […]
NDDC denies N20bn payment to ghost contractors
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has discredited the allegation by the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) Worldwide that it paid N20 billion to ghost contractors. IYC, in a statement in Yenegoa, Bayelsa State, had called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to launch an investigation into the allegation of illegal payments of N20billion […]
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 […]