QUESTION: If the disarmament and rehabilitation of 30,000 ex-agitators could do so much for nation, how far would 18,000 skilled and unskilled new jobs go towards cementing that peace?
Browsing: Amnesty programme
Charles Odemwingie, Managing Director, Nolia Consult Limited, said during the training held in Benin that it was part of the federal government’s programme to re-integrate the ex-militants into the society.
Boroh said this on Friday during the inauguration of a water project in Gelegele-Gbene community near Benin in Ovia North East Local Government area of Edo State
Authorities had originally cut the budget for cash payments to militants to end corruption
The government says it has been holding talks with militants they suspect of being behind a recent wave of attacks on pipelines that has reduced Nigeria’s crude output by 700,000 barrels a day
Retired Brigadier General Paul Boroh, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger-Delta Matters and Coordinator of the Amnesty Programme, said this at the end of a meeting he convened in Benin
A source in the Presidency told THISDAY that President Muhammadu Buhari, who is very disturbed by the incessant attacks on oil installations in the region and its impact on the country’s finances, is mulling the advice of a senior security and intelligence chief, who has recommended that Alaibe be brought back to manage the amnesty office
Former presidential adviser on the Amnesty Programme, Kingsley Kuku, has disclosed that he did not run away from probe following…
Nigerians are facing many challenges, perpetual stumbling blocks hindering a smooth transition to prosperity and geopolitical competition. Yet there is none as blaringly obvious as the complacency our national leadership has emanated while our citizens routinely put their lives in jeopardy simply walking to school, attending church or checking in at work
The ex-militants, under the aegis of the Leadership Forum for Peace in the Niger Delta, are also of the opinion that the prevailing peace in the region can be sustained if the Federal Government ensured adequate funding of the amnesty programme