Day: August 30, 2023

Minister of Niger Delta Development, Abubakar Momoh, has unveiled his agenda for the region, vowing revolutionize quality and standard of infrastructure for the people.
Momoh, who stated this in Abuja during his inaugural briefing, tagged:
Special Development Agenda For The Niger Delta, insisted that construction of standard infrastructure would be his watchword.

The minister, who described the prevalence of abandoned and poorly executed projects across the region as unacceptable, especially contracts handle under the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), promised to revisit the forensic audit report of contracts awarded by the commission.
He warned that contractors, who handled various NDDC projects in the region, which were either abandoned or poorly executed, would have questions to answer.

The minister: When I said we want to construct standard projects, the implication is that we also have agencies in the Niger Delta, like the NDDC, charged with the responsibility of executing projects. I said that under my watch, we will make sure the projects they will execute will be of quality and standard.
As to projects, which we are going to execute between now and the next two years, I have not been properly briefed; but you can see I am here now. They
(ministry’s top management staff) are here and are going to brief me on what they have done so far.
Somebody has equally mentioned that about 13,000 projects are abandoned across the region.,
As I am talking now, I don’t know the projects after I have taken a proper study of what is on ground, then I will come up with that statement.

There is a forensic audit, which has been conducted by the Federal Government. We will look at it and identify those that are functional, as well as those that are ongoing some contractors have abandoned their projects; there are some people who collected money and didn’t do anything.
So, we will take a look at all those things to know how to address them in due course Momoh warned that poorly executed projects would no longer be allowed in the region. He however, reassured that thousands uncompleted and abandoned projects across the region will be giving prompt attention and timely completion..

GODWIN GREEN
Niger Delta Correspondent
PRTIMES AFRICA

Well, I’m going to paint my nails for that fight and I’m going to knock him out with my painted nails.’  ISREAL ADESANYA

The last stylebender  also said  ‘I don’t listen to people [telling me I should win],’ Adesanya said. ‘That’s [how]. I only listen to me and my team and this guy, he’s already pissed me off with his energy. The way he comes across and the way he tries to antagonize me.’

‘I don’t like the way he conducts himself,’ Adesanya said. ‘Even his sparring footage will pop up in my feed sometimes and I’m just like what the f***? Who does that? He’s a gym hero.

‘He’s just an idiot and he’s not the kind of person I associate myself with and also he’s fugazi.’

Speaking last year ahead of UFC 281, The Last Stylebender explained why he chose to wear nail polish in the build up to fights.

‘My nails are, they just, you know, fresh,’ he said. ‘I mean if you’re gonna put this in someone else’s face, on someone else’s mouth, it would be rude not to paint them. So I got the drip tips, fashionable, vibey. I call them “kick ’em in the face, send them to space”.’

Adesanya is in the midst of his second run as middleweight champion after knocking out Alex Pereira to regain the title earlier this year.

Strickland, ranked no 5, has won his last two fights and holds a record of 27 wins and 5 losses.