L-R: Clement Kekemeke, Bayelsa NBA Branch Chairman; Mrs Patrick Lumumba; Prof Parick Lumumba, the keynote speaker; Goodluck Jonathan, former President of Nigeria; Heineken Lokpobiri, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Oil); Samuel Ogbuku, the NDDC MD; and Warredi Enisuon, the Executive Director-Operations, Tantita Security Service; during the plenary session of the 2026 Law Week of the NBA Yenagoa Branch, at the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, Conference Hall,Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
…As Patrick Lumumba, Kenyan law professor, wants Africa to trace its history and seek unity first
Some big ticket projects so far executed by the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to defend the environment seemed to stand out on the World Environment Day 2026.
The environment is the biggest challenge facing the oil region since 1956 for which the Commission and its precursor, OMPADEC, were set up.
The NDDC is on record to have executed several key environmental interventions and environmental initiatives that prioritized the nine states of the Niger Delta. These include mangrove flood control, desilting schemes in many local waterways, water hyacinth removal, and reforestation projects (planting over 1.2 million seedlings).
