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President Bola Tinubu has scrapped the Ministry of Niger Delta, SaharaReporters can report. Government sources on Thursday told SaharaReporters that the Ministry of Niger Delta was scrapped by the President because there is also the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). The sources noted that following the scrapping of the Ministry of Niger Delta, all the works and duties previously mandated to the ministry will be moved to the NDDC. 

  There is a looming crisis in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly as Senate President Godswill Akpabio reportedly amended the Senate standing rules but in flagrant violation of Order 109 of Senate Rules.   SaharaReporters gathered that the Senate President in connivance with the Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele amended the Standing Rules on Saturday night to include the creation of new committees without 72 members present, representing (2/3) majority in the chamber.  

SSEPF decried that the high hopes of the natives of the Niger Delta, who hold the key to ensuring unhindered crude oil and gas production, had begun to diminish.

Barring any last-minute change in plan, the names of members of some select committees of the Senate will be announced this week, Sunday PUNCH

Some Niger Delta groups have blamed successive Nigerian past governments for using the Niger Delta Development Commission as a place to settle loyalists for political patronage, thereby making the commission to lose sight of its mandate.