UAE to partner NDDC on development projects in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region --[Reported by Umva mag]

The United Arab Emirates and the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) have agreed to set up a joint committee to develop a partnership framework to support development projects and programmes in the Niger Delta region.

According to a statement by the NDDC Director of Corporate Affairs, Seledi Thompson-Wakama, the partnership follows a recent meeting at the UAE Embassy in Abuja between the UAE Ambassador to Nigeria, Salem Al-Shamsi, and a delegation from the NDDC, led by its managing director, Dr Samuel Ogbuku.

The NDDC team included the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Alabo Iyaye; the Executive Director, Corporate Services, Ifedayo Abegunde, among other directors of the commission.

It added that Al-Shamsi expressed his willingness to collaborate with the commission on information and communication technology, education, health, agriculture, and youth development, endorsing the joint partnership to develop areas of collaboration between the UAE and NDDC.

The UAE envoy commended the NDDC for its development initiatives and said that his country was willing to collaborate and support the Commission in executing more development projects.

“We are happy with this visit and the opportunity it has given us to explore areas of cooperation and support. We appreciate the robust relationship between UAE and Nigeria,” Al-Shamsi said.

He expressed satisfaction at his country’s normalising its relationship with Nigeria, noting the UAE national carrier, Emirates Airline, resumed operations between Lagos and Dubai.

Briefing Al-Shamsi and his team on the commission’s activities and achievements Dr. Ogbuku called for collaboration in health interventions of the NNDC in the Niger Delta.

He urged the UAE to assist in equipping the Commission’s Regional Specialist Cardiovascular and Orthopedic Hospital in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State.

“As part of our commitment to expanding the frontier of the NDDC’s Public Private Partnership, PPP, I welcome the opportunity to meet with UAE officials to foster collaboration in health, education, as well as oil and gas,” Ogbuku said.

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