In the news today: Organized Labor Disown Cross River Labor Party, Chairman. Labor Party Chairman Alleges Destabilization Plan. Ex Guber Aspirant, Patrick Okomiso Dumps APC For Labor Party. NGO Provides Free Eye Health Services For Inmates In Calabar Prison. Northern Groups Tackle Osinbajo Over Planned Sale Of Calabar Power Plant, Four Others. HOMEF Boss, Nnimo
By Henry Umoru, Vanguard News Nigeria The Senate has summoned the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, over contracts scam put at N100 billion. Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo State-led Senate Committee on Public Accounts that is probing the NDDC, said it will personalize any refund that would be traceable to
By Henry Umoru, Vanguard News Nigeria The Senate has raised the alarm on how the management of Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) paid retired generals for regional security surveillance of the agency’s projects without evidence of service delivery. The Senator Matthew Urhoghide, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Edo South led Senate Committee on Public Accounts uncovered
By Victoria Effiong Unless an urgent action is taken, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) 500 unit prototype hostel at Cross River State University (UNICROSS) could soon become a disaster. It is a death trap for students living in it. The hostel, awarded in December 2004, was abandoned by Directed Services Limited, a local firm that
This is a response by Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba to a recent report by CrossRiverWatch – Investigation: N1.2 Billion Ikom Specialist Hospital In Ruins After A Half-done Construction By Senator Ndoma-Egba’s Company. His response came through his Media Adviser, Mr. Sunny Udeh. On Friday, 19th November, 2021, while we were observing activities marking the widely publicized
By Leke Baiyewu, Punch Newspaper The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, passed a bill for its third reading to create a South-South Development Commission despite the existence of the Niger Delta Development Commission. The House had earlier on Tuesday considered and adopted the report by the Committee on Justice on the bill. The legislation is titled,
By Victoria Effiong In 2012, the Federal Executive Council approved the sum of N1.2 billion for the construction of a specialist hospital in Ikom Local Government Area in Cross River State. But after nine years, the hospital is yet to be opened because the building which was half-done is now deteriorating. The hospital, a one-story
By Idris Shehu, The Cable Benjamin Okaba, President of the Ijaw National Congress (INC), has described the bill seeking to add Lagos, Kogi and Bauchi to the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) as a “mockery” of the region’s essence. The bill seeking to include the three states as part of the Niger Delta Development Commission