The NDDC Executive Director of Projects, Charles Ogunmola, made this known in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.
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Likewise, the region is like a beautiful flower that is both a blessing and a curse simultaneously. Its beauty and bounty provide sustenance for the people, while its hidden thorns bring destruction and despair. The petals are delicate, and the color is stunning. However, if you look closer, you will see that the stem is weak and the roots are rotting.
Dr. Ogbuku in a press statement signed by the Commission’s Director, Corporate Affairs, Ibitoye Abosede, stated that neither himself nor the two Executive Directors has authorized anybody to act on their behalf as they are determined to make any sacrifices to bring back sanity to the Commission and reposition it for efficient service delivery.
This was contained in a statement issued by the NDDC Spokesman, Dr. Abosede Ibitoye, in Port Harcourt on Sunday.
The Board gave its nod at the end of its meeting after an exhaustive debate on the proposal tabled before it by the Chairman.
The groups expressed their anger in a press release signed by its National Coordinator, Arerebo Salaco Yerinmene, saying that the recent development was part of fundamental reasons why the Izon and other oppressed people oil producing communities “should rise up now are legion”.
Onochie spoke at a ceremony to celebrate her recent appointment organised by the Buhari Support Organisations (BSO), Tuesday in Abuja.
The CSOs: Foundation for Environmental Rights, Advocacy & Development (FENRAD), Social Development Integrated Centre (Social Action) and Abia State NDDC Advocacy groups, filed the suit at the Federal High Court (FHC), Umuahia in Abia.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on Wednesday, last week, asked the Senate to confirm the appointment of his Special Assistant on New Media, Lauretta Ifeanyi-Onochie as the substantive chairman of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission.
Also referred for screening are 14 others, as members of the commission.
Sports and extracurricular activities were then as important as academics and there were sports festivals and competitions which facilitated peer interaction and integration.
The commission, which took its campaign against cultism and drug abuse to Rivers Saturday, said youths in the Niger Delta must be stopped from engaging in social vices to enable them harness their potentials, contribute their quota to development and sustain the peace in the region.
This was contained in a report presented to the House by the House Committee on Public accounts on Thursday.
This follows a petition against the immediate past Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, and NDDC Management.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Buhari’s letter containing the request at the plenary Wednesday.
This development was contained in court documents made available to The Eagle Online on Monday in Lagos.
Uzodimma gave the advice when he received the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua.
A memo titled ‘NDDC sole Administrator relieved of appointment, was signed by Patricia Deworitshe, Director Press, Ministry of Niger Delta and made available to the press on Thursday.
The ICPC also arraigned Gabriel Nathaniel, a staff in the Accounts Department of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) over allegations bordering on diversion of about N3 billion from his office.
The Chairman, 2022 Conference Committee, Ken Ugbechie, revealed this development on the conference on Monday.