{"id":197060,"date":"2020-02-27T15:00:38","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=197060"},"modified":"2020-02-27T15:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T14:01:14","slug":"nddc-buhari-sets-up-monitoring-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=197060","title":{"rendered":"NDDC: Buhari sets up monitoring committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Monitoring Committee for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).<\/p>\n<p>His spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement Wednesday night, said this was in line with the provisions of Part V1, Section 21 of Niger Delta Development Commission Establishment Act.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the committee are: Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio \u2013 Chairman, Minister of State, Omotayo Alasoadura \u2013 Member and Olusola Adesola, Permanent Secretary \u2013 Member.<\/p>\n<p>Other members are: Shamsuddin Bello \u2013 representing the office of the Accountant General of the Federation; Charles Ikeah, representative of the Federal Ministry of Environment; Atanda Kolawole Musiliu \u2013 representing the Ministry of Petroleum Resources; Ms Aisha Umar, representing Federal Ministry of Finance, Budget and National Planning.<\/p>\n<p>Also on the committee are Dr M.K Mohammed \u2013 representing Federal Ministry of Works and Housing; Dr Dorothy Nwodo \u2013 representing the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development.<\/p>\n<p>Alfred Abah, a Director in the Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, is the Secretary.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came one week after Buhari appointed the NDDC Interim Management Committee (IMC).<\/p>\n<p>The President replaced Barrister Joy Nunieh with Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei, as acting Managing Director.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the composition of the Monitoring Committee for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). His spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement Wednesday night, said this was in line with the provisions of Part V1, Section 21 of Niger Delta Development Commission Establishment Act. Members of the committee are: Minister of Niger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,8741],"class_list":["post-197060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-nddc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/197061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}