By Sebastine Ebhuomhan When President Bola Ahmed Tinubu appointed Chief (Dr.) Dennis Brutu Otuaro on 14th March 2024 to administer the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), he had great expectations. The official announcement reflecting the president’s infallible wisdom underlined that Dr. Otuaro “had previously served as a top-level executive of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)…
The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has demanded a retraction and apology from the Punch and Daily Times newspapers over an alleged coup plot levelled against against the NDDC boss. NDDC’s spokesperson, Seledi Thompson-Wakama in a statement said the Commission’s legal counsel, in a strongly worded letter signed by Chief Ayodeji Adedipe, SAN, demanded that…
The are indications that the Nigerian military has detained Dr Samuel Ogbuku, Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), over alleged involvement in a failed plot to overthrow President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Sources within military intelligence revealed that Ogbuku allegedly transferred a substantial sum of money to former Minister of State for Petroleum…
The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has refuted claims of a rift between the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Chief Nyesom Wike, and the commission’s Managing Director, Dr. Samuel Ogbuku. In a statement on Monday by its Director of Corporate Affairs, Seledi Thomson-Wakama, the NDDC labeled the report titled “Uproar in NDDC as…
The Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a suit seeking to reverse the appointments of the current Managing Director and Executive Directors of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) by President Bola Tinubu. The court’s decision was delivered by Justice James Omotosho, who ruled that the plaintiffs lacked the locus standi (legal right) to…
