Nigeria, Dec. 19 -- Over one month after the Senate confirmed nominees sent by President Muhammadu Buhari as board members of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), the president has jettisoned the nominees.

Instead, Mr Buhari has approved that a new board be composed for the embattled interventionist agency.

PREMIUM TIMES reported how the Senate in November confirmed the 15 nominees sent by the president as NDDC board members. Mr Buhari had sent the names of the nominees led by an Edo State politician, Pius Odubu, to the Senate in October.

The president has, however, refused to inaugurate the nominees following the clearance by the Senate.

Before the nominees where cleared by the Senate, however, the minister of Niger Delta, ...