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A total of $142.5 million was paid to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) last year by The Shell Petroleum Development of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) and Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company Limited (SNEPCo). SPDC paid $112.5 million while SNEPCo remitted $30 million compared to $59.04 million by SPDC and $20.73 by SNEPCo in 2022. The contributions came from the ...

In line with ongoing reforms of the Police and efforts towards improving the nation’s security architecture, President Muhammadu Buhari has restated his administration’s commitment to provide various platforms for all the security agencies in the fight against terrorism, banditry, and all forms of criminality. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who represented the President and also delivered the remarks on his ...

By Casmir Igbokwe In 1984, when Major General Muhammadu Buhari was military head of state, there was a television commercial featuring a character called Andrew. Frustrated by the hardship and lack of basic amenities like power, roads and water, Andrew wanted to leave Nigeria for greener pastures abroad. “I’m checking out,” he would say. But he was urged to stay back, ...

Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption riddled interventionist agency – the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, whose headquarters is in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The first Salvo was fired by the Vice President sometime in May 2019, while on a ...

Says Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) Plans To Scuttle NDDC and Niger Delta Development A non-governmental and advocacy Organization,  Citizen Quests for Truth Initiative, has expressed shock over the sealing of  the gate of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS). The group in a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Francis Udoka Ndimkoha said ...

The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, says his attention has been drawn to a piece of what he calls fake news which claimed that he paid $5 million bribe to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and others to secure the appointment of a Sole Administrator for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). “We ...

By Obiaruko Christie Ndukwe 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 Honourable ...

….commends N20B for the East-West Highway Commendations have trailed the move by President Muhammadu Buhari in Council to directly fund the procurement of the Forensic Auditors for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). This move according to a statement dispatched to newsmen by Citizens Quest’s National President, Christie O. Ndukwe “is sequel to the obvious deliberate attempt by the National ...

Commission boss, Pondei, faces fresh probe September The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has said the information at its disposal is not sufficient to commence the probe of senators indicted in the alleged contract scam at the Niger Delta Development Commission. The ad hoc committee set up to unravel the alleged financial recklessness by the Interim Management ...

Denial continues to trail the allegations of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) that the Commission was coerced into making underserved payments to some companies and contractors. One of the listed companies in the NDDC allegations, Collincrystal Energy, on Tuesday vehemently denied the allegation. “Collincrystal prides on its integrity and timely completion of awarded contracts. The company does not need ...