nddcIn the last few years, the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has not had good ink in the media. It has been one scandal after another, garnished with rib-cracking drama. When the National Assembly invited the last Interim Managing Director, Prof. Kemebradikumo Pondei for some house-keeping investigation there was drama when the man fainted in the midst of the uncomfortable grilling and the session came to an abrupt end as he was rushed out to a health facility for resuscitation. It was also during the search by the National Assembly members for accountable governance from NDDC officials that we learned some original Nigerian English, “off the mike”, meaning “switch off the microphone”. But before this time the Niger Delta Affairs Minister Senator Godswill Akpabio had duly informed us that an embattled female official of the Commission who had made a relatively unprintable accusation against him had had, as he learned, four husbands.