October 14, 2024

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NDDC To Boost Youth Empowerment, Says Boss

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The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Emmanuel Audu-Ohwavborua, has reiterated the Commission’s commitment to support programmes and projects that empower youths of the Niger Delta region.

 

 

 

Audu-Ohwavborua who stated this at the commission’s headquarters in Port Harcourt, when he hosted and formally presented car keys of a 2022 Kia Picanto to the winner of the Niger Delta Talent Hunt, NIDETH, Elvis Uchenna Igwe, Audu-Ohwavborua added that the Commission will help the youths to develop their creative talents.

 

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According to him, “This is part of the capacity building programmes which the commission does to show case the great creative talents in the region.”

 

 

He also urged news media to publicize projects of the Commission which he said were mostly in the rural areas out of the view of the general public.

 

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The Ag. MD continued that, “Most of the things done by the NDDC are not seen because they are in the interior.  All we seek is collaboration from all stakeholders.”

 

 

Also speaking, the NDDC Director, Youth and Sports, Mr. Offiong Ephraim, said, “The Niger Delta Talent Hunt is a youth development programme aimed at harnessing the entertainment potential of the Niger Delta youths. Talented youths from the nine Niger Delta States participated in the auditions, which took place in Edo, Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom states.”

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