Gabriel Choba 
Top management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), led by the Acting Managing Director/CEO, Prof. Keme Pondei and Acting Executive Director, Projects, Dr. Cairo Ojuogboh, yesterday resumed work at the new Headquarters of the Commission in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. This has been described as a major accomplishment in the eventful journey of the Commission, which took over two decades to achieve. With the formal relocation, the offices of the Managing Director and Executive Director, Projects had been movedfrom167AbaRoad, Port Harcourt to the nearly completed NDDC Headquarters Building on Eastern Bypass, Port Harcourt, the state capital. The first stage of the phased movement of the Commission’s operations to its new headquarters came a few days after President Muhammadu Buhari, in his Democracy Day address, assured Nigerians that the Head Office of the NDDC would soon be commissioned.
Pondei, while addressing journalists yesterday shortly after assuming his new office, said: “I want to give all the credit to Mr. President for directing the Minister of the Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio to ensure that history be made on a day like this.”
