Outstanding Fees To Scholarship Beneficiaries Will Be Paid – NDDC

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has vowed to settle all outstanding fees due to its scholarship beneficiaries studying abroad.

The agency’s Executive Director, Projects, Cairo Ojougboh revealed these representatives of the scholars during a meeting today.

According to him, all outstanding foreign scholarship claims will be verified and paid within the next few weeks.

He added that the agency was being blackmailed and intimidated to make payments without verification of scholars on its payroll.

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The Niger Delta Development Commission is a federal government agency established by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000 with the sole mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

In September 2008, President Umaru Yar’Adua announced the formation of a Niger Delta Ministry, with the Niger Delta Development Commission to become a parastatal under the ministry.

One of the core mandates of the Commission is to train and educate the youths of the oil rich Niger Delta regions to curb hostilities and militancy, while developing key infrastructure to promote diversification and productivity.

The position of Executive Chairman of the NDDC has been a subject of much debate. A compromise was reached where the position would be rotated within the nine oil producing states in alphabetical order: Abia, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross River, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers.