Presidential Research & Communications Unit

President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua has moved to re-engineer and reposition the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for greater efficiency and effective service delivery by constituting a new governing board for the commission.

In a letter to the President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, President Yar’Adua asked for the expeditious confirmation of Air Vice Marshal Larry Koinyan (Rtd.) of Bayelsa State as Chairman of the new Board and Mr. Chibuzor Ugwoha of Rivers State as the Managing Director of the Commission.

According to a statement signed by the President’s Special Adviser, Media and Publicity, Mr Olesegun Adeniyi on Friday July 3, other nominees to the board who are expected to be confirmed by the Senate in consultation with the House of Representatives are:

1. Arc. Esoetok Ikpong Etteh (Akwa-Ibom)
-Executive Director (Projects)
2. Pastor Power Aginighan (Delta)
-Executive Director (Finance & Accounts)
3. Mr. Aloysius Nwagboso (Abia)
- Part Time Member
4. Chief Dan Abia (Akwa-Ibom)
- Part Time Member
5. Mr. Anthony Orubo (Bayelsa)
- Part Time Member
6. Hon. Ekpo Asuquo Okon (Cross River)
- Part Time Member
7. Mr. Emmanuel O. Ogidi (Delta)
- Part Time Member

8. Hon. Jude I. Ise-Idehen (Edo)
- Part Time Member
9. Akeru Ikechukwu Joseph (Imo)
- Part Time Member
10. Mr. Benson G. Enikuomehin (Ondo)
- Part Time Member
11. Engr. Emmanuel G. Georgewill (Rivers)
- Part Time Member
12. Dr. Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (North-West)
-Representative of Non-Oil Mineral Producing States
13. Maj.-Gen. Tunde Ogbeha (Rtd.) (North-Central)
- Representative of Non-Oil Mineral Producing States
14. Alhaji Asheikh Jarma (North-East)
- Representative of Non-Oil Mineral Producing States
15. Dr. Daru Owei
- Representative of Oil Producing Companies in the Niger Delta

President Yar’Adua expects the reconstituted Governing Board to provide a dynamic, purposeful and results-oriented leadership that will effectively reposition the NDDC to work in tandem with the recently established Federal Ministry of the Niger Delta to actualize his Administration’s agenda for the rapid socio-economic development of the region.

The 44 year-old nominee for the post of Managing Director, Chibuzor Ugwoha, holds a Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning and has about 12 years cumulative experience in Community Development with Elf Petroleum Nigeria Limited and Total (Exploration and Production) Nigeria Limited.

Before moving to the oil Industry, Mr. Ugwoha had worked as a Technical Officer with the defunct Directorate of Food, Roads and Rural Infrastructure (DFRRI), and as Lecturer/Head of the Department of Building Technology at the Federal College of Education (Technology) in Omoku, Rivers State.

He is currently the Deputy General Manager, JVA (Onshore) Sustainable Development at Total (Exploration & Production) Nigeria Limited.