Alumni, friends, family & associates celebrate Ogbuku’s great achievements at NDDC

When Dr. Samuel Ogbuku assumed bureau arsenic the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, connected January 5, 2023, determination was nary iota of uncertainty that the Niger Delta states were poised for a caller lease of life.

From the onset, the caller helmsman minced nary words erstwhile helium announced that his epoch would look for caller ways to bash things differently. Ogbuku instantly acrophobic himself with the tremendous task of rapidly processing the Niger Delta region, which is the halfway mandate of the NDDC.

Under Ogbuku’s leadership, the erstwhile unstable bureau became a connoisseur of authorities of-the-art projects crossed the Niger-Delta states, spinning-out projects upon projects, portion consciously delivering a sublime mandate that had ne'er been seen crossed board.

Today, the NDDC has deployed a transparent and accountable strategy successful charting a caller people successful its administration. For the archetypal clip successful her history, the Commission got the support of the National Assembly to instrumentality a important fund tied to completing bequest oregon signature projects successful the Niger Delta region.

In 2024, the NDDC’s fund proposals, specifically designed to guarantee projects completion was approved by the National Assembly done Dr. Sam Ogbuku’s evident outstanding composure, assurance and sincerity, which besides won the Senate and, subsequently, the House of Representatives. Since his assignment arsenic the MD/CEO of the NDDC, Ogbuku has continued to support a show scorecard loaded with affirmative outcomes that person continued to animate anticipation successful the lives of indigenes successful each Niger Delta state.

The Senate President, Chief Godswill Akpabio who represented Pres. Bola Ahmed Tinubu astatine the inauguration of a 600-meter Ibeno Bridge and the 6.87-kilometre Iko Atabrikang-Opolom-IwuoAchang Road, successful Akwa Ibom State, attested to this portion showering praises connected the NDDC Board and Management for delivering impactful projects successful the Niger Delta region. The Senate President emphasized that contempt the tremendous challenges of processing the region, the NDDC has risen to the task of
executing projects that person improved people’s lives.

The 2024 fund of the NDDC was earmarked to implicit 1,006 bequest projects crossed the region, targeting circumstantial projects, including roads, bridges, energy projects, schoolhouse buildings, hospitals, enactment protection, and reclamation. For the archetypal clip ever, the existent NDDC’s enactment commissioned 5 flagship projects successful a abstraction of 10 days, betwixt May 18 and May 28, 2024. The awe-inspiring projects
commissioned included the 9km Obehie-Oke-Ikpe roadworthy successful Ukwa West LGA, Abia State; the 27.5 kilometre Ogbia -Nembe Road, constructed successful concern with Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC; the 1×15MVA 33/11KV energy injection substation successful Amufi, Ikpoba-Okha Local Government Area successful Benin City, Edo State; the 45km double-circuit 33KV feeder enactment from Omotosho Power Station to Okitipupa,
Ondo State and the NDDC 6km Iko-Atabrikang-Akata-Opulom-Ikot Inwang-Okoroutip Iwochang Road and 600m Ibeno Bridge successful Ibeno LGA, Akwa Ibom State.

These landmark projects, among the 92 infrastructure projects completed astatine a outgo of N84 cardinal crossed the 9 mandate states of the NDDC, talk of the interaction the Commission is making successful the quest to quicken the gait of improvement successful Nigeria’s oil-rich region.

In 2025, the NDDC has spearheaded cardinal developmental projects for 2025 including but not constricted to the Kaa-Ataba Bridge successful Rivers State, which is simply a 1.2 km span and roadworthy task connecting Andoni and Kana section authorities areas and serving arsenic an alternate way to Bonny Island, the Nasak Junction AON Road and Bridge successful Akwa Ibom State; a 30 km roadworthy and span linking communities to Abia State, the Okirika
Borikiri Bridge successful Rivers State, which is different laudable bequest task slated for revitalization and completion, the Bonny Ring Road successful Rivers State which is simply a 27.14 km roadworthy project, including 13 bridges, that volition link Bonny Town with surrounding communities, and an exigency reconstruction task providing determination connectivity to Abia State, which is the Oibo Road Network. Ogbuku has significantly
remobilized contractors to implicit abandoned projects aimed astatine improving interstate proscription and socio-economic activities. His astute enactment has besides seen the committee collaborate with International...