The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Ibrahim Mailafa has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission for taken steps to preserve the environment in its projects implementation drive..

Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly, Rt Hon Benjamin Uwajimogu has advised Niger Deltans to be patient with the new NDDC Board to enable it implement its action plan for the region.

Managing Director of the NDDC, Dr Christian Oboh has called on the banking sector to join hands with the commission in the task of developing the Niger Delta region.

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology has commended the Niger Delta Development commission for its pioneering effort in the establishment of an information technology center in the institution......

In a deliberate effort to ensure speedy completion of projects and quick delivery of other services the Niger Delta Development Commission has inaugurated three committees. They are ad hoc committee on the 2nd South- South Economic Summit, procurement planning committee on the 2012 financial year, and the 2012 budget committee.

A total of 91 Niger Delta youths trained by the NDDC in welding and drilling technology in Turkey have been certified international welding specialists and drilling technicians.....

The Niger Delta Development Commission has commenced the process for the implementation of the 2nd batch of 29 mega projects sited across the region.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom state has tasked the Niger Delta Development Commission on projects execution, insisting that the commission must enlist the services of reputable contractors if quality jobs are to be delivered.

In pursuant to its programme of aggressive women empowerment, the Niger Delta Development Commission in collaboration with Shell Petroleum Development Company is set to commence skills development programme for rural women across the states of the region.

The Niger Delta Development Commission has been honoured by the Sports Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Rivers State Chapter in recognition of its efforts in the development of sports across the Niger Delta Region.

In what could be described as a swift response to President Goodluck Jonathan move to diversify the Nigerian economy from dependence on oil, the Niger Delta Development Commission has trained eleven agric engineers in mechanized farming implement.

NDDC contractors that have achieved 70% in project execution have up to the end of March 2011 to deliver or face the wrath of the law, the Managing Director, Dr Christian Oboh has said.

Determined to provide alternative source of energy for the Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Development Commission has inaugurated 15 solar equipment shops across the region.

Rivers State Governor Rt Hon. Chibike Amaechi has urged the new board of the NDDC to implement programmes that will address youths restiveness in the region.

The newly inaugurated governing board of the Niger Delta Development Commission says it will work as a team in the discharge of its statutory functions.

Barrister Alloysius Nwagboso, the Abia State Representative on the newly inaugurated Governing Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has assured the good people of Abia State of accelerated infrastructural development.

The newly appointed NDDC Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Dr Christian Oboh has approved the immediate release of funds to settle school fees of beneficiaries of NDDC scholarship for those studying in the various universities abroad.

View LIST OF 2011 BENEFICIARIES FOR NDDC/FBN POST GRADUATE FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP.

The Niger Delta Development Commission and the Port Harcourt Chamber of Commerce, Mines and Agriculture ( PHACCIMA) are to partner on youths and women empowerment programme, designed to address issues of unemployment and poverty in the Niger Delta region.

The NDDC has called on State Governments in the Niger Delta to establish a framework for maintenance of the Commission’s completed infrastructural projects in their states to ensure sustainable development in the region.

Delta State has emerged the winners of the NDDC- sponsored secondary schools swimming competition 2011 for the Niger Delta region with 811 points. Ondo was second with 523 points.

The Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the NDDC, Mrs. Osato Iyasere Arenyeka has said that over 2.5 million people of the Niger Delta origin have benefited immensely from the free health care delivery by the commission since its inception ten years ago.

The Chairman of Uhunmwode Local Government of Edo State, Hon. Napoleon Agbawa has commended the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for touching the lives of his people and others through its free and qualitative healthcare services, and infrastructural development in the Niger Delta region.

The Niger Delta Development Commission is to set up solar maintenance shops across the Niger delta as a deliberate effort to launch the region into the world of renewable energy technology.

Contractors implementing projects for the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, have been charged to ensure that quality projects are delivered for the development of the region.

he Acting Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NDDC, Mrs. Osato Iyasere Arenyeka has charged staff of the commission to work towards changing the negative perception of the NDDC by the public to a commission that is credible, reliable  and capable of delivering its mandate of developing the Niger Delta  region.