Nigeria: Ex-Militants Protest Over Non-Payment of Allowances

18 December 2014

Yenagoa — Aggrieved former Niger Delta militants under the federal government's amnesty programme yesterday protested over the non-payment of arrears of their allowances.

The protesters blocked the East-West Road near Patani, a boundary town between Bayelsa and Delta states.

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