Admin l Monday, July 08, 2019
PORT HARCOURT, Rivers, Nigeria – The Acting Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Prof. Nelson Brambaifa, has reiterated the Commission’s commitment to the education of the girl-child to build her capacity and enhance her self-esteem so as to contribute positively to nation building.
Speaking while receiving an award from the National Association of Nigeria Female Students’, NANFS, executives who paid him a courtesy call at the Commission’s Headquarters in Port Harcourt, Prof Brambaifa said that education was the bedrock of any developing nation and women were strategic in that equation.
He said, “NDDC has embarked on several infrastructural development projects and capacity buildings programmes in the Region. For instance, many female students have benefited from our foreign post-graduate scholarship and other capacity building programmes over the years because we believe in the saying that ‘educate a girl-child and you have educated a nation.’
“In that vein,” he continued, “NDDC is ready to collaborate with any organization that is ready to promote and safeguard the education of the girl-child to acquire skills and boost her self-confidence. We have your proposal and management will look at it critically to see the area in which we can partner to protect the girl-child.”
The President of NANFS, Miss Joan Obi, appealed to the NDDC to support the students’ organization in its fight against discrimination of women in the society. She said that NANFS had embarked on a sensitization campaign tagged: “Say no to drug abuse and violence against women.”
Miss Obi commended the NDDC for executing people-oriented projects, stating: “The advancement of education in the region through the on-going scholarship programme, nation building with transparency and integrity, as well as strong advocacy for peace and sustainable development in the Niger Delta region.”
The President of NANFS presented an award tagged “21stCentury Icon of Meritorious Service and Role Model to the Younger Generation,” to Prof. Brambaifa, said that it was bestowed on the NDDC Chief Executive Officer because of his outstanding leadership qualities, transparency and laudable contribution to the overall development of the Niger Delta region and Nigeria in general.
