1. NDDC’s Efforts Toward Actualizing Mr.
President’s Transformation Agenda
By
Dr. Christian Oboh
Managing Director/CEO, Niger Delta Development Commission
At the 2nd Edition of the Ministerial Platform
ABUJA – NIGERIA, July 2013

2. Rebranded NDDC Head Office in Port Harcourt

3. NDDC Key Milestones – Education Sector
STUDENTS UNDERGOING NDDC FOREIGN
POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATIONS
 Awarded 400 Scholarships for Masters and
Ph.D. Degrees since Dec 2011
 The objective is to build capacity/skills of high
level manpower to meet international
standards especially in the Oil & Gas sector.
 The scholarship is valued at $30,000.00 per
student annually
NDDC FOREIGN
POSTGRADUATE
SCHOLARSHIP

4. NDDC Key Milestones – Education Sector
NDDC PROTOTYPE
UNIVERSITY
HOSTELS AS AT DEC
2011

5. NDDC PROTOTYPE HOSTEL, DELTA STATE
UNIVERSITY,ABRAKA
(AWAITING COMMISSIONING)
NDDC Key Milestones – Education Sector
 NDDC is constructing 19 Hostels in 17
Universities in the Niger Delta Region
 The objective is to complement the efforts of
the Universities in providing decent
accommodation for Students.
 11 of the Hostels were put on fast-track in
2012
 4 of the Hostels have been completed and
one commissioned
NDDC PROTOTYPE
UNIVERSITY
HOSTELS

6. NDDC Key Milestones – Education Sector
NDDC PROTOTYPE HOSTEL, IMO STATE UNIVERSITY,
OWERRI
(RECENTLY COMMISSIONED)
NDDC PROTOTYPE
UNIVERSITY
HOSTELS

7. NDDC PROTOTYPE HOSTEL, FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
OF TECHNOLOGY, OWERRI
(AWAITING COMMISSIONING)
NDDC Key Milestones – Education Sector
NDDC PROTOTYPE
UNIVERSITY
HOSTELS

8. NDDC Key Milestones – Health Sector
NDDC FREE MEDICAL MISSION
NDDC FREE
MEDICAL SCHEME
 The NDDC Regional Free Health Care Delivery Scheme
covered a total of sixty (60) medical missions across the nine
(9) states and over five hundred thousand patients were
treated while over one million (1,000,000) household were
educated on healthy living skills.
 The Commission advanced work on the construction of three
(3) Specialist Hospitals in Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom and Rivers.
 Also NDDC is partnering the State Governments in building
Maternal & Child Hospitals in the Niger Delta Region

9. NDDC Key Milestones – Health Sector
TYPHOID VACCINES DONATED TO NDR STATES
VACCINES &
VACCINATION

10. NDDC Key Milestones – Health Sector
PILOT SPECIALIST HOSPITAL FOR THE NIGER DELTA REGION (CARDIO
VASCULAR/ORTHOPEDIC), IN PORT HARCOURT RIVERS STATE - ONGOING
NDDC PILOT
SPECIALIST
HOSPITAL

11. NDDC Key Milestones – Agriculture
 NDDC in partnership with the Bank of Agriculture set up a
Credit & Entrepreneurial Development Scheme
NDDC has deposited N975million for disbursement to 376
cooperative societies in the Niger Delta Region
 NDDC and Cross River State Government is partnering to
rehabilitate the State Poultry / Hatchery factory
 Work is ongoing on the180tonnes/day Rice Processing Plant at
Elele Alimini, Rivers State

12. NDDC Key Milestones – Agriculture
 Supply of 304 sets of Swaraj Workhorse
Model 978 (2WD/74HP) with sunshield
canopy Tractors to the NDR States
 11 Staff of NDDC were trained in India on the
operation and maintenance of the tractors
SOME OF THE SWARAJ TRACTORS
SUPPLY OF 304
SWARAJ TRACTORS
TO STATES

13. NDDC Key Milestones – Agriculture
 Trained 2,397 Youths / Women in
Agricultural Skills / Enterprises in
Aquaculture; Poultry; Piggery; Rabbitry;
Food processing; Snailry; Grasscutter
Production; Feed Formulation and
Cassava Production
PARTICIPANTS UNDERGOING TRAINING
AGRICULTURAL
SKILLS TRAINING
PROGRAMME

14. NDDC Key Milestones – Agriculture
AGRIC LOAN BENEFICIARIES
ELELE RICE MILL

15. NDDC Key Milestones – Skills Acquisition
S/N TRAINING TYPE NUMBER TRAINEES CERTIFIED
1 Local Welding & Fabrication (Plate
Welding)
165
2 NDDC Technical Aid Corp Scheme 1,907
3 NDDC International Welding
Inspectors (trained in Turkey)
40
4 NDDC International Welding
Instructors Training (Train-the-
Trainer) in PTI Effurun and South
Africa Institute of Welding
25
5 Maritime Training (in collaboration
with Maritime Academy, Oron)
250
6 Entrepreneurial Development
Scheme (in partnership with
Empowerment Support Initiative)
200

16. NDDC Key Milestones – Skills Acquisition
 NDDC in partnership with Shell Petroleum
Development Company (SPDC) embarked on Skills
Development Training for Rural Women and Young
Girls in the Niger Delta Region.
 The objective of the partnership is to provide skills
that will women to make them employable.
 A total of 1,620 women benefitted from the initiative.
 NDDC contributed N536m while SPDC contributed
N100m.
SOME BENEFICIARIES
NDDC / SPDC
SKILLS DEV.
TRAINING FOR
WOMEN

17. NDDC Key Milestones – Skills Acquisition
BENEFICIARIES WITH STARTER
PACKS
NDDC / SPDC
SKILLS DEV.
TRAINING FOR
WOMEN

18. NDDC Key Milestones – Skills Acquisition
NDDC STAFF, NIW PRESIDENT & NDDC-
TRAINED INTERNATIONAL WELDING
INSTRUCTORS
NDDC SKILLS
ACQUISITION
PROGRAMME
INSTALLED EQUIPMENT AT THE
PERMANENT SITE OF NDDC/ESI
FACTORY AT ENEKA, RIVERS STATE

19. NDDC Key Milestones – Security
100 PRADO JEEP VEHICLES FOR
SECURITY PATROL FITTED WITH
GADGETS TO SUPPORT THE POLICE IN
THE 9 NIGER DELTA STATES
NDDC SKILLS
ACQUISITION
PROGRAMME
ACCOMMODATION FOR WO1 AT 2
BRIGADE NIGERIAN ARMY, BORI CAMP,
PORT HARCOURT

20. NDDC Key Milestones – Environment
 Oil Spill Investigation: Shell Bonga Oil Spill – Consistent with its
mandate, the Commission engaged the services of an
environmental consultant to carry out an independent investigation
on the Shell Bonga Oil spill
 Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Studies: The Commission
carried out EIA studies of 59 major projects during the period under
review. The Commission has however published the EIA Reports
for nine of the projects.
 Health, Safety & Environment / Environmental Monitoring of
Projects (HSE / EMP). The Commission has awarded the
consultancy for HSE/EMP of eight (8) major projects. The purpose
of HSE/EMP is to implement a method of systematic identifying,
assessing and controlling hazards that may arise from projects
execution.

21. NDDC Key Milestones – Environment
BURUTU RECLAMATION WORKS,
DELTA STATE
NDDC
RECLAMATION
PROJECTS
OGU BOLO SANDFILLING, RIVERS
STATE

22. NDDC Key Milestones – Completed
Infrastructure Projects(Summary By State)
S/N STATES COMPLETED
PROJECTS
MEGA
PROJECTS
TOTAL NO
OF
PROJECTS
1 ABIA 22 0 22
2 AKWA IBOM 34 2 36
3 BAYELSA 44 1 45
4 CROSS RIVER 48 0 48
5 DELTA 76 4 80
6 EDO 45 1 46
7 IMO 29 0 29
8 ONDO 51 0 51
9 RIVERS 142 1 143
TOTAL: 491 9 500
SUMMARY (BY STATE)

23. S/N PROJECT
TYPE
COMPLETED
PROJECTS
MEGA
PROJECTS
TOTAL NO.
OF
PROJECTS
1 Building
(Schools &
Hospitals)
38 0 38
2 Canalisation 0 2 2
3 Electrification 93 0 93
4 Flood control 0 0 0
5 Jetties 7 0 7
6 Roads and
Bridges 282 7 289
7 Water supply 71 0 71
TOTAL: 491 9 500
NDDC Key Milestones – Completed
Infrastructure Projects(Summary By Type)
Between Jan 2012 and June 2013, 476kilometres of Road have been completed

24. NDDC Key Milestones – Ongoing MEGA
Infrastructure Projects(Summary By State)
S/N STATES TOTAL NO OF MEGA
PROJECTS
1 ABIA 7
2 AKWA IBOM 36
3 BAYELSA 21
4 CROSS RIVER 11
5 DELTA 29
6 EDO 4
7 IMO 13
8 ONDO 11
9 REGIONAL 72
9 RIVERS 37
TOTAL: 241
SUMMARY (BY STATE)

25. S/N PROJECT TYPE TOTAL NO. OF MEGA
PROJECTS
1 Building (Hostels &
Hospitals) 22
2 Canalisation 5
3 Electrification 7
4 Flood control 48
5 Jetties 2
6 Roads and Bridges
154
7 Concrete Bridges 3
TOTAL: 241
NDDC Key Milestones – Ongoing MEGA
Infrastructure Projects(Summary By Type)

26. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges
IBENO ROAD & BRIDGE, AKWA IBOM STATE

27. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges
ONICHA-UGBO – IDUMUJE – UGBOKO -
EWOHIMI ROAD/BRIDGES, DELTA
STATE
TUNGBO – EDEBIRI ROAD/BRIDGES,
BAYELSA STATE

28. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges
SANPOU – ODONI – AGBERE
ROAD/BRIDGES, BAYELSA STATE
OLOIBIRI INTERNAL
ROAD/BRIDGES, BAYELSA STATE

29. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges
DUALIZATION OF IGWURUTA –
ETCHE ROAD, RIVERS STATE
OBOZOGBE – ABUDU ROAD/BRIDGES,
EDO STATE

30. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges
OBOKOFIA INTERNAL ROAD, IMO
STATE
ORJI – ISIEBU – OKOHIA ROAD, IMO
STATE

31. NDDC Key Milestones – Roads &
Bridges (Ongoing Projects)
GBAREGOLO –OGULAGHA
ROAD/BRIDGES, DELTA STATE
UGBO – OGHOYE ROAD/BRIDGES
ONDO STATE

32. NDDC Key Milestones – Governance
 Decentralization Policy
 Review of Financial Manual
 Strict Compliance with the Procurement Act of 2007
 Establishment of a SERVICOM Unit in the Commission
 Training of Staff by the Economic & Financial Crimes Commission
 Implementation of Freedom of Information Act of 2011
 Interaction with Independent Corrupt Practices Commission on
Stalled Hostel Projects
 Oversight by various Agencies and Committees of the National
assembly

33. THANK YOU