The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has pledged to assist the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa State, in its quest for an enhanced educational environment for its students. Speaking at the Commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, during a courtesy visit by a delegation from the university, the NDDC Interim Administrator, Mr Efiong Akwa, assured that the…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has called on the federal Government to apply the stiffest penalty on the Indonesia over the humiliating treatment of a Nigerian diplomat by the Indonesian security officials. Prince Secondus who expressed deep discontent on the matter charged Nigeria government to apply no constraints…
Delta State PDP has challenged the opposition APC in the State to stop displaying crass ignorance and idiocy over the present Contributory Pension Scheme processes and get its facts right, instead of playing to the gallery and misleading Deltans over the issue of retirees in the State. State Publicity Secretary of Delta PDP, Dr. Ifeanyi…
As the move to resolve the crisis confronting the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) continues the party’s Board of Trustees, Governors forum, National Assembly caucus, and the National Working Committee meet today in Abuja. A member of NWC of the party who spoke to me on phone on condition of anonymity disclosed that the party will…
The National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Prince Uche Secondus has said that he will not resign his position. Prince Secondus said in a short statement from his media office that nothing so far warrants his resignation from the party position and those tiny minority calling for his resignation should come clean and…
Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party on Sunday reconciled the party’s Anambra State governorship candidate, Valentine Ozigbo and other aspirants who contested against him. The governors also appointed one of the aspirants, Senator Uche Ekwunife as chairman of the Ozigbo Governorship Campaign Council for the November 6 election. Ekwunife was the…
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) caucus in the House of Representatives, has called for the immediate resignation of the party’s national chairman, Uche Secondus. The caucus, in a statement jointly signed Kingsley Chinda and Chukwuka Onyema, leader and deputy leader respectively, said this part of resolution reached at an online meeting of the caucus, on…
The former President-General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo and two-time minister in the country, Chief John Nnia Nwodo, has described the Director New Media of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Mr Chijioke Amu Nnadi, as a gifted writer and a beacon for the youths. Nwodo spoke during the public presentation of “the love canticles”, the new…
President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday lamented that despite the All Progressive Congress (APC) being the ruling party and having dominance at all levels of government, the party’s unnecessary squabbles led to it losing some governorship and legislative seats during elections. He said this when he inaugurated the Executive, Legislative Party Consultative Committee headed by Vice President…
In keeping with our commitment to funding the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Foreign Scholarship Programme, the Interim Management Committee, IMC, has paid $5,910,000 to 197 scholarship beneficiaries of 2019, while payment processes for 94 beneficiaries of 2018 are ongoing. Among the 197 beneficiaries are 43 scholars for Doctor of Philosophy, PhD, comprising 12 for…
