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Overwhelmed, Kachikwu says there’s no telling when N’Delta crisis’ll end

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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has said that the militancy in Nigeria’s Delta region has become so recalcitrant that the Federal Government is finding it difficult to handle.

Aacording to him, there is no telling for sure when it will come to an end.

The minister who made this disclosure in an interview on Bloomberg TV onward to the meeting of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna, Austria, added that Nigeria would be happy with the price of crude oil at mid-$50 per barrel looking at the fluctuations in the pricing of the commodity in the international market.

“I think the Niger Delta issue is a major problem because you simply can’t get a final handle on it until it is resolved and you will never know when it is resolved.”

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Speaking on crude oil production in Nigeria, Kachikwu said that a lot of progress has been made.

“Productions are up – 1.9 million barrel, 1.95mb from the lows of 1.4mb. Militancy attacks are less, an average of one every month as opposed to five to six every week when it first started early in the year”, he stated.

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  1. Margret Dickson

    December 1, 2016 at 12:38 pm

    N’Delta militants are great problem to Nigeria and her economy, they’ve remained adamant and unshaken despite all efforts the federal government is making to enable peace reign in the region

    • Amarachi Okoye

      December 2, 2016 at 5:35 am

      The Niger Delta should not be beg for no reason because they are nothing in this country if our oil sector will not bring peace then agriculture can take place

  2. Animashaun Ayodeji

    December 1, 2016 at 12:40 pm

    We have to device other means of getting our petroleum back in good shape, the Niger/Delta militants are not ready for peace.

    • Roland Uchendu Pele

      December 1, 2016 at 3:14 pm

      I guess this is why the government is planning on running a pipeline fron Niger Republic to Kaduna refinery. But what would this do to our general relationship with the Niger Delta?

      Perhaps, all the meetings with the elders and the developmental proposals from the region will all go in vain.

    • Balarabe musa

      December 1, 2016 at 3:21 pm

      We need not to device any means of getting any petroleum in to shape but we need to device means of diversifying the economy especially focusing on agriculture, mining and power.

      • Amaka Okoro

        December 2, 2016 at 5:29 am

        True talk dear the Niger Delta can go to hell and burn to aches

  3. JOHNSON PETER

    December 1, 2016 at 2:01 pm

    Kachukwu knows he is not a prophet who knows what tomorrow might be. After all , he was not the one who began the crisis, so he won’t know when it will end.

  4. seyi jelili

    December 1, 2016 at 4:46 pm

    What useless effort has the government made? Nothing.
    Let government meet their 16points demand and see if Niger Delta militants will still remain adamant.

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