Gumi made the observation on Wednesday at the “Pastoralists and Fulbe Security Conference” held in Abuja.
Browsing: Niger Delta militants
In a video posted on Tuesday by Africa Independent Television (AIT), the group accused the federal government of marginalising the region and failing to deliver on the amnesty programme.
Really, there was a method to the madness of the Niger Delta militants. They were fighting for a just cause – a region so endowed, yet so impoverished. But the genuineness of their cause does not obviate the criminality of their exertions.
This is coming on the heels of allegations mismanagement of funds for the programme
The government of President Muhammadu Buhari does not need additional problems on its crammed table. It already has the unenviable task of confronting a degraded but still deadly Boko Haram insurgency and the untold devastation in human and material resources it wreaks in the North East
Kachikwu made this known on Friday in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State at the resumed dialogue with Niger Delta stakeholders as part of the visit of Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, to the state
Saraki disclosed this in his welcome address to Senators on resumption from their Christmas and New Year recess
Ramsey Mukoro, the leader of the third phase of the amnesty programme, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Saturday that some former agitators had received two out of four months’ salary backlog
The call comes at a time of increased bombing of oil facilities by Niger Delta militants
Although economic diversification is gearing up as a bail-out from the gripping recession bedevilling Nigeria, given the cheering report from the field of agriculture and other natural resources, yet, oil resources still counts as an immediate avenue for succour to propel the economy for implementation of budgets
He said: “Available information from Sector 4 in Cross River State indicates that Bakassi Strike Force militants, led by one Mr. Benjamin Ene, have expressed unreserved willingness to lay down their arms
Madumere equally urged the Presidency to ensure the real ex-agitators in Imo State are also given needed empowerment and re-integrated like their counterparts from other States
During the coming election debates, he should do the Nigerian people a favour and ask Hillary Clinton one question. That question is:
Speaking at a farewell audience with Michael Zinner, the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria, at the State House, President Buhari said government is studying the instruments of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration with a view to carrying out commitments made that were undelivered
The IYC said the Federal Government in the past week had displayed obvious inconsistencies and lack of commitment towards finding a solution to the renewed hostilities
According to the general overseer, who is also a UN Peace Ambassador, the avengers are incurring the wrath of God by their activitie
The NDA said the meetings at which the promises were made, including the one held on Friday with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, purportedly on its behalf, does not have its blessings
The meeting, summoned by the leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, was later put off due to the tension generated
In statement issued and signed by its Chairman and Secretary, Ifedayo Ogunlana and Rasaq Olookoba, the pan-Yoruba Organisation said it had it on good authority that the plans have been concluded on how to storm the state with the Niger Delta militants
Haruna, who was giving an overview of the position of the youths in the administration’s transformation agenda, enjoined the sect members to embrace the opportunity by dropping their arms and ammunitions