*Edison Corporation Top Guns Visit NCDMB Headquarters
*December 2026 Remains Date of Commissioning
The Executive Secretary, Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe has promised to monitor the ongoing construction of Radisson Hotel and Conference Centre, Yenagoa every day, every week to ensure its commissioning date becomes a reality.
He also expressed confidence that the five-star project would be completed and commissioned in December 2026, just as South Africa’s Edison Corporation Centre, incorporating Radisson Hotels Group, assured of world-class services.
Ogbe stated this in the Bayelsa State capital, Yeangoa while addressing visiting top executives of Edison Corporation and Megastar Technical and Construction Company, at the conclusion of a one-day project management tour and workshop at the Nigerian Content Tower (NCT), Swali, Yenagoa recently.
While describing the hospitality facility as a top priority project to the Board, Ogbe averred that its completion is critical to NCDMB, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State and Nigeria generally.
His words: “With this hotel becoming functional at the end of the year, I believe there will be tourism in Bayelsa State. That is one of my dreams. When I took up this job as Executive Secretary in December 2024, I said I must make this hotel work.”
NCDMB in a statement made available to Maritime Bits quoted Ogbe commending the team from Edison Corporation and the project contractor, Megastar Technical and Construction Company, for the quality and pace of work, and reminded its management that much responsibility rests on the company for delivery on schedule.
Ogbe’s words: “Most of the critical aspects of the project have been resolved in terms of mark-up room, scope of work in terms of financing and contracting strategies. All hands would be on deck to ensure that work proceed unhampered”.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Edison Corporation, Mr. Vivian Reddy in his remarks said the team from Edison Hotel Group was very excited to have come into a contractual arrangement with the NCDMB, assuring that “Radisson Hotel and Conference Centre, Yenagoa will put this place on the world map.”
Continuing, Reddy said: “What is so important with the group, Radisson International is that, if anyone around the world looks for Radisson Yenagoa, they will see this place pop up, and it is going to help to uplift the area in terms of visitors and tourism.”
In a brief interaction with the media, he said: “Our role is to make sure we deliver a world-class quality hotel; from start to finish, we will open the hotel; we will furnish it.”
Reddy disclosed that his company is working with the main contractor to make sure the facility meets world-class standards.
On how the contractual deal with the NCDMB got finally sealed, he noted that it took great efforts.
According to the Edison Corporation CEO, getting Radisson here was not easy. It took months and months. In fact over one and a half years of discussions and thousands of pages of documentation. Such rigorous processes were not without gains.
In his words: “When a group like Radisson, one of the largest hotel groups in the world, decide and commit that they will come in here, it is actually a mark of confidence in the area.”
Reddy who is reputed to be the first South African businessman to lead a high-level business delegation from South Africa to Nigeria during the tenure of President Thabo Mbeki in 1999, was full of commendation for the NCDMB boss.
While describing him as “a great visionary and excellent leader,” Reddy said: “His vision and dream are going to become a reality. We are going to help him and make it. It is going to be the best hotel in this region.”
He also commended the project contractors and professional teams involved, stating that his team has every confidence in their technical competence.
On the team of Edison Corporation and Radisson International were Brian Sibusiso Mpono and Govindasami Monogren, among others.
NCDMB General Manager, Corporate Communications Division, Dr. Obinna Ezeobi said in a statement that the Radisson Hotel and Conference Centre, Yenagoa is designed to meet global five-star standards.
Ezeobi also explained that the facility is expected to serve as a strategic hub for industry conferences, investor engagements, and high-level business meetings, thereby boosting economic activities in Bayelsa State and the Niger Delta region.
