Tag: NDDC

N6tr NDDC Funds: SERAP sues Buhari over failure to publish suspected looters’ names

Aminu Imam

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, (SERAP), has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over his failure to publish the names of those indicted in the alleged misappropriation of over N6 trillion in the running of the Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), between 2000 and 2019, as documented in the recent Forensic Audit Report on NDDC. In the suit, filed on behalf of SERAP by its lawyers Kolawole Oluwadare and Opeyemi Owolabi, at the Federal High Court, Abuja, SERAP is seeking an order of mandamus to direct and compel…

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NDDC Board composition: APC may lose oil states – Group warns FG

Aminu Imam

A group, Vanguard for Transparent Leadership and Accountability, (VATLAD), has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to save his ruling party, All Progressives Congress, (APC), from losing the nine oil states by allowing the substantive Governing Board of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, confirmed by the Senate on November 5, 2019, to resume work. The group, in an issued statement by the national president, Emmanuel Igbini, said President Buhari has been misdirected all this while, adding the Board does not necessarily have to be inaugurated before it commences work with the latest…

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“We gave Niger-Delta govs. N100m each as Covid-19 palliatives” – NDDC

Aminu Imam

The Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), has stated that it gave each of the governors of the nine oil-producing states N100 million each as Covid-19 palliatives.  This claim was reportedly made by NDDC officials while appearing before the Senate Committee on Ethics Privileges and Public Petitions.  The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Patrick Ayo Akinyelure told newsmen that the Senate may summon the governors to testify on how the money was spent. He warned that the NDDC Sole Administrator must appear before it or risk an arrest warrant being issued against him…

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Senate orders arrest of NDDC management

Aminu Imam

As Akpabio lands in trouble for alleged bribe to CCB officials The Senate yesterday issued a warrant of arrest on the former Interim Management Committee (IMC) of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The arrest warrant followed the refusal by members of the committee headed by Prof. Kemebradikumo Daniel Pondei to appear before the Senate Committee on Public Petitions, Ethics and Privilege to account for N6.2 billion Covid-19 funds they allegedly mismanaged. Recall that the Chairman of the Committee, Sen. Patrick Akinyelure, last month gave the former NDDC IMC till February…

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CSO raises alarm over non-payment of NDDC foreign scholars

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

The Act for Positive Transformation Initiative, a Civil Society Organisation (CSO), has raised alarm over the delay in the payment of Nigerian scholars abroad by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The CSO, in a statement issued by Kolawole Johnson, Head, Directorate of Research, Strategy and Programme, drew the attention of President Muhammadu Buhari to the non-payment of the scholars. Kolawole urged the President to intervene and save the scholars whose genuine demands were being ignored by the commission. Kolawole criticised the unnecessary drama surrounding the payment of NDDC scholars…

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How NDDC top management shared N4.9bn as medical checkups allowance, Senate report reveals

Ishaku Yohanna

More revelations are coming up concerning the alleged financial recklessness in theNiger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). A Senate report which was obtained on Monday in Abuja showed how the top management of the agency shared N4.9bn among themselves. However, it was done in the guise of medical checkups at a time when Nigeria was under lockdown to check COVID-19 spread. The Senate report also showed that the management paid N114.9m as a supplementary medical allowance to 26 staff members during the same period. The report indicated that the monies were…

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Buhari gives NDDC till Friday to pay scholarship of stranded Niger Delta students abroad

Ishaku Yohanna

President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the payment of fees and stipends of stranded scholarship students of the Niger Delta Development Commission studying abroad. This was contained in a statement titled NDDC invites President Buhari to Commission Signature Project and signed by the NDDC Director, Corporate Affairs, Charles Odili, on Tuesday. Odili said Buhari conveyed the directive to the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio The statement reads, Under the Commissions finance protocol, only the Executive Director (Finance) and the Executive Director (Projects) can sign for the release of…

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NDDC, EFCC, NSITF Corruption Cases: Buhari frowns at planned mass protest by Labour

Ishaku Yohanna

The Presidency has frowned at the reported plan by the Trade Union Congress, TUC, to embark on a nationwide protest over the alleged President Buharis inaction over the high-level of corruption uncovered at some Federal Governments commissions. It would recalled that both the Executive and Legislative arms are currently investigating alleged cases of misconduct at the Niger Delta Development Agency, NDDC, the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, EFCC. Garba Shehu, the Presidents Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity in a statement…

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NDDC, EFCC, NSITF Corruption Cases: Labour tells Nigerians to prepare for nationwide protest

Ishaku Yohanna

Angered by the inaction of President Muhammadu Buhari and the anti-corruption agencies over the high-level of corruption uncovered at the Niger Delta Development Agency (NDDC), the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), labour has resolved to embark on a nationwide protest by next week. Speaking during a media chat with journalists in Abuja over the weekend, the President of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Comrade Quadri Olaleye, has, therefore, called on all workers and Nigerians to prepare for a nationwide protest over unresolved…

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Why I slapped Akpabio – Ex-NDDC MD

Ishaku Yohanna

Former Acting Managing Director of the Interim Management Committee of Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Joy Nunieh, has claimed that she is the first and only woman to have slapped Senator Godswill Akpabio, the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs. She disclosed this during an interview with Arise TV and said the incident happened at his guest house in Abuja when he sexually assaulted her. She said:  I am the only Ogoni woman, the only Nigerian woman that has slapped him. I slapped him because of his plan B, she said,…

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