The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Maj Gen Barry Tariye Ndiomu (rtd) has solicited the support of the Police High Command in the...
The Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has cautioned President Muhammadu Buhari over the planned termination of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) for former militants in the...
The Cross River governor, Ben Ayade, on Monday called for the inclusion of members of the Bakassi Strike Force in the Federal Government’s Amnesty Programme in...
The National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno (retd) has lamented the level of corruption in the Niger Delta Amnesty Programme. He said that N712 billion...
President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo as Amnesty programme coordinator. A statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President on Media and...
It has been revealed that a total of 446 Nigerians are currently serving different terms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) prisons. Nigerian ambassador to the...
Some ex-militants in Ondo State on Wednesday vowed to return to militancy, issuing an ultimatum to the state government to return their weapons. They lamented that...
Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta and Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Office, says the Federal Government has fulfilled all its obligations to...
The Senate, on Thursday, raised the alarm over growing tensions in the Niger Delta region, following the alleged refusal of the Federal Government, to offset five...
The Presidency has urged Niger Delta Avengers and other militant groups in the coastal region to leave the creeks and enlist in the amnesty programme for...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday said his administration is now negotiating with Niger Delta militants. Though, he said that the oil companies and law-enforcement agencies are...
Dele Awogbeoba… A cursory look at the Niger Delta and the damage done to its environment as a result of the huge cross the Niger Delta...
By Kolade Gbolagade… “Had long sought a separate state not because they loved power but because their conditions were peculiar and the authorities did not understand...
Staying true to its threat, the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) said late Wednesday that it had blown up Chevron’s mains electricity feed at its Escravos terminal,...
By Joe Igbokwe… All things considered, the Niger Delta Avengers are no different from the Boko Haram criminality in the Northern part of Nigeria and if...
By Reuben Abati… Niger Delta Avengers is the name of a new group of militants in the Niger Delta who claim to be different from the...
The Federal Government (FG) may have started feeling the impact of the activities of new militant group, the Niger Delta Avengers, NDA, as it has said...
Nigeria is reported to have spent over $2 billion on 13,000 ex militants in the last five years out of the registered 30,000, even as prospective...
Former militant leaders in the Niger Delta area including Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, ex-leaders of the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), the...
