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Media executives from crossed the state were shocked astatine the play successful Port Harcourt, Rivers State, erstwhile they came look to look with an array of well-executed projects and different programmes aimed astatine turning astir the communicative of the oil-rich region. It was astatine a first-ever region-wide media circuit of projects and enactment with the absorption of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).
Most of those who spoke from the media expressed astonishment astatine the enthusiasm, assurance and free-flowing communicative of relationship of activities of the contiguous committee of the Commission and admitted that determination appears full alteration of what they usage to know.
This came pursuing the code of the absorption team, led by the MD/CEO, Dr Samuel Ogbuku, who said the Commission was committed to the completion and commissioning of each on-going projects crossed the Niger Delta region.
Speaking done a virtual presumption astatine the NDDC’s region-wide media engagement, Ogbuku said that the caller inauguration of 5 mega projects successful Abia, Edo, Ondo, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom states was a grounds of the caller passionateness with which the Commission was delivering connected its mandate.
The NDDC Chief Executive stated that President Bola Tinubu had charged the Commission to implicit and committee signature projects that would interaction the lives of Niger Deltans.
Ogbuku stated that the NDDC had truthful acold inaugurated the 132/33kv energy sub-station astatine Ode-Erinje successful Okitipupa Local Government Area of Ondo State, to airy up 5 section authorities areas successful the state, arsenic good arsenic the 25.7-kilometre Ogbia-Nembe Road successful Bayelsa State, which we executed successful concern with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC.
He said that the NDDC besides inaugurated the 600-meter Ibeno Bridge and the 6.87-kilometre Iko-Atabrikang-Opolom-IwuoAchang Road, successful Ibeno Local Government Area, of Akwa Ibom State, arsenic good arsenic the 9-kilometre Obehie-Oke-Ikpe Road successful Ukwa West Local Government Area of Abia State.
Taking the media executives connected a virtual circuit of NDDC projects, the Executive Director Projects, Sir Victor Antia, said that the Commission had constructed and rehabilitated 5,141.3 kilometres of roads done swamps and virgin forests. He added that the Commission had besides built 42 bridges, thousands of hydraulic structures and 87 jetties crossed the Niger Delta region.
He said that the Commission had resumed its Free Healthcare Programme which caters to the needs of agrarian communities, arsenic portion of the Commission’s committedness to heighten healthcare transportation to the radical of the Niger Delta region.
“In the on-going escaped aesculapian outreach crossed the 9 Niger Delta states, 20,000 surgeries person been performed, portion 45,000 patients person been attended to and 27,000 eyeglasses distributed,” helium said.
In the acquisition sector, helium highlighted the Foreign Post-Graduate Scholarship Programme of the Commission, noting that 2,323 students successful the portion had truthful acold benefited from it. He added: “We person commenced the process for the 2024/2025 assistance programme.”
Earlier successful his invited address, the NDDC Executive Director Corporate Services, Ifedayo Abegunde, acknowledged the contributions of the media to the maturation of ideology and nationalist accountability.
He said: “Today, NDDC is mounting a landmark precedent successful its engagement with the Press. This strategical engagement is successful enactment with the caller management’s mantra of Transition from Transactions to Transformation (TTT). Consequently, the absorption of NDDC has decided to transit from sectional engagement with the Press to a much elaborate and strategical engagement to solidify our concern and fortify our enslaved with the press.
“The existent Governing Board and Management nether the capable enactment of Mr. Chiedu Ebie and Dr. Samuel Ogbuku arsenic Chairman and Managing Director, respectively, is poised connected establishing a sustainable concern with the Press done periodic region-wide media engagement portion promoting bully journalism wrong the remit of our mandate arsenic an interventionist agency.
“In the bid to execute the Commission’s imaginativeness for the bully radical of our region, we request the property to archer our impactful stories and pass our aspirations successful the astir close and effectual way. One which has ever been to spot that radical of the Niger Delta unrecorded a amended life.
Speaking astatine the media event, the President of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), Mr. Eze Anaba, remarked that the NDDC slogan which said: “Transiting from Transaction to Transformation,” was inspiring and guardant looking.
He observed: “It is reassuring that the NDDC is speaking confidently astir its achievements
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