{"id":16354,"date":"2019-10-05T14:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=16354"},"modified":"2019-10-05T14:47:44","modified_gmt":"2019-10-05T14:47:44","slug":"akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio Suspends recruitment into NDDC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godswill_Akpabio\">Godswill Akpabio<\/a> has directed that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), suspends forthwith any employment exercise into the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister also directed the suspension of handing over of appointment letters, documentation and all other processes connected to employment into the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>This was disclosed in a statement signed by Akpabio\u2019s Chief Press Secretary, Anietie Ekong and made available to our correspondent in Uyo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that Senator Akpabio gave this directive in a letter issued by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Mrs Didi Walson-Jack to the Acting Managing Director of the NDDC, Dr Akwagaga Enyia.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads in parts, \u201cBased on the Ministerial directive, the Commission\u2019s pay roll should not accommodate new employees and should revert to the status quo as at August 31, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister should be furnished within three days with a detailed report of any employment exercise being undertaken by the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspension exercise is to subsist until a due process evaluation of the purported exercise is carried out by the Ministry in consultation with the two NDDC Committees of the National Assembly and sought prompt action of the Acting Managing Director on the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has directed that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), suspends forthwith any employment exercise into the Commission. The Minister also directed the suspension of handing over of appointment letters, documentation and all other processes connected to employment into the Commission. This was disclosed in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":5401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[621,818,949],"class_list":["post-16354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-akpabio","tag-nddc","tag-niger-delta-affairs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akpabio Suspends recruitment into NDDC - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has directed that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Akpabio Suspends recruitment into NDDC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has directed that the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-10-05T14:47:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Akpabio.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"610\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Akpabio Suspends recruitment into NDDC\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-10-05T14:47:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\"},\"wordCount\":210,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/upload\/sites\/3\/2019\/02\/Akpabio.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Akpabio\",\"NDDC\",\"Niger Delta Affairs\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/akpabio-suspends-recruitment-into-nddc\",\"name\":\"Akpabio Suspends recruitment into NDDC - 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