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NDDC’s Interim Admin, Akwa To Lead Magt Team To DOPF 3rd Lecture Series

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The Interim Administrator/Chief Executive Officer of Niger Delta Development Commission, (NDDC), Mr. Efiong Akwa will on Thursday, October 21, 2021, lead officials of the Commission to the 3rd Annual Convention/lecture of the Delta Online Publishers Forum, (DOPF) to be held in Asaba, the Delta State capital.

The event which is billed to hold at the Banquet hall of Orchid Hotels and Conference Centre, Asaba, at 11:am has the theme; “Niger Delta Economy: Building A New Face For The Region”.

A statement by the Chairman of the Convention Planning Committee, Dcn. Chijioke Williams Ugbolue, Secretary, Mr. Miracle Enuji, said that Mr. Akwa who is expected at the event as a Guest of Honour, has promised to use the opportunity to explain the Commission’s role in building a new face for the Niger Delta Region.

“It is a golden avenue for the NDDC, under the leadership of an Interim Administrator, to give details on what the Commission has been doing to ensure a new face for the Niger Delta region that is anchored on an economy devoid of oil and gas.

“The platform will also afford NDDC the opportunity to explain what they have been doing after the forensic audit of the Commission,” the organisers stated.

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Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State and Deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege are among dignitaries expected at the event.

While Governor Okowa is the Special Guest of honour at the event, Omo-Agege is expected as Guest of honour.

The occasion which will be chaired by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, has the immediate past Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan as the Guest Speaker.

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Uduaghan is expected to deliver a lecture on the theme, ‘Niger Delta Economy: Building A New Face For The Region.’

Renowned Niger Delta activist, Annkio Briggs, the Delta State Honourable Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, the former Provost, Federal College of Education (Technical) Asaba, Dr. Ignatius Nwanze Ezoem and Chief Comrade Sheriff Mulade of CEPEJ, are expected as panel of discussants for the lecture.

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