{"id":3418,"date":"2023-10-19T15:28:31","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2023-10-19T15:28:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T15:28:35","slug":"senate-confirms-board-members-for-nddc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-confirms-board-members-for-nddc\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms  Board Members for NDDC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Senate on Wednesday, October 4 confirmed the nomination of 17 persons for appointment as Chairman and Members of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The confirmed nominees include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Chiedu Ebie (Delta)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2013 Chairman <\/li><li>Samuel Ogbuku (Bayelsa)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013 Managing\nDirector\/Chief Executive Officer <\/li><li>Boma Iyaye (Rivers)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013 Executive Director, Finance and\nAdministration<\/li><li>Victor Antai (Akwa Ibom)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013\nExecutive Director, Project<\/li><li>Ifedayo Abegunde (Ondo) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Executive Director, Corporate Services<\/li><li>Dimaro Denyanbofa (Bayelsa) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State Representative<\/li><li>Abasi Ndikan Nkono (Akwa Ibom) \u2013 State Representative<\/li><li>Monday Igbuya&nbsp;\n(Delta) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State\nRepresentative <\/li><li>Tony Okocha (Rivers) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State Representative <\/li><li>Patrick Aisowieren (Edo) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State Representative <\/li><li>Kyrian C. Uchegbu (Imo) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State\nRepresentative<\/li><li>Otito Thompsom Atikase (Ondo) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State Representative <\/li><li>Dimgba Eruba (Abia) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State\nRepresentative <\/li><li>Orok Out Duke (Cross River)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State Representative<\/li><li>Nick Wende (North Central) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 State\nRepresentative<\/li><li>Namdas Abdulrazak (North East).&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013 State\nRepresentative<\/li><li>Ibrahim Abdullahi Gobir (North West) \u2013 State\nRepresentative<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be recalled that in December 2022, the Senate confirmed\u00a0 Lauretta Onochie, former Special Adviser to former President Buhari as Chairman and several others as Members of the NDDC Board. The Senate also confirmed three other nominees as members of the Board in May 2023. However, following the inauguration of Bola Tinubu as President of Nigeria, he ordered the dissolution of the boards of over 100\u00a0 government establishments, including the NDDC in June 2023. Four months later, the President has constituted a new Board for the Commission. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate on Wednesday, October 4 confirmed the nomination of 17 persons for appointment as Chairman and Members of the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The confirmed nominees include: Chiedu Ebie (Delta)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u2013 Chairman Samuel Ogbuku (Bayelsa)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013 Managing Director\/Chief Executive Officer Boma Iyaye (Rivers)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;\u2013 Executive Director, Finance and Administration Victor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3422,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}