A wide range of the people and stakeholders in the Niger Delta region are relieved that a new Board of Directors for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has been composed and inaugurated into office. It came exactly four years after the last one, headed by Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba from Cross River State, was disbanded […]
A wide range of the people and stakeholders in the Niger Delta region are relieved that a new Board of Directors for the Niger Delta Development Commission has been composed and inaugurated into office.
Managing procurement processes had always seemed to be the commission’s major weakness and this has created the unenviable perception that the agency is embroiled in unbridled corruption. But despite this impression, NDDC has achieved a lot in the last 22 years.
It is also notable that NDDC is refocusing on new development concepts that centers on core infrastructure projects such as inter-state roads. For someone who travels extensively across the Niger Delta region, I have been quite worried by the extent of the decay of Trunk A roads.
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