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Nigeria: Yar'Adua Should Draw Up Roadmap to Delta Peace
allAfrica, 30 November 2009
For the first time in years, Nigeria's Niger Delta seems to be looking up. Read more »
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Nigeria: Environmental Rights Activist Charges FG on Post-Oil Era
Vanguard, 26 November 2009
EXECUTIVE Director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoN), Mr. Nnimmo Bassey has called on the Federal Government and stakeholders in the oil… Read more »
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Nigeria: Niger Delta - IBB Commends Amnesty Programme
This Day, 27 November 2009
Former Military President, General Ibrahim Babangida has commended the Amnesty programme initiated by President Umaru Yar'Adua to end the militancy in the Niger Delta region. Read more »
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Nigeria: Big Projects And Niger Delta Devt
This Day, 26 November 2009
Lately, the Federal Government is beginning to demonstrate what could pass for a genuine eagerness to transform the long-neglected but oil-rich Niger delta region. Read more »
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Nigeria: Post-Amnesty Offer for Oil-Producing Communities
Daily Champion, 26 November 2009
Following the embracement of the amnesty offer by majority of the Niger-Delta militants, after years of hostility and destruction of oil facilities, the Federal Government has… Read more »
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Nigeria: The Courage to Challenge
Vanguard, 26 November 2009
Nigeria has become the black sheep of the world oil producing community for her lack of accountability and unproductive use of the oil revenue. Among the OPEC countries, Nigeria is… Read more »
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Nigeria: Raising Fresh Issues On Amnesty
Daily Champion, 26 November 2009
Is the Federal Government handling the post amnesty package for the Niger Delta ex-militant well? Is it fair in the sharing of the N200billion earmarked for the militants in the… Read more »
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Nigeria: Fiscal Federalism, Solution to Niger Delta Crises, Says Ibori
Vanguard, 25 November 2009
FORMER Delta State governor, Chief James Ibori, has identified fiscal federalism and the amnesty programme as the most urgent political challenges confronting the Federal… Read more »
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Nigeria: Pitfalls of the Amnesty Programme
This Day, 25 November 2009
The problems of the Niger Delta are Marginalization, lack of infrastructural development and lack of political space. These problems gave rise to youth militancy. The federal… Read more »
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Nigeria: Govt Tasked on Niger-Delta
Vanguard, 23 November 2009
THE Federal Government has been charged not to renege on its commitment to rapidly develop the Niger Delta, especially now that the struggle has shifted from armed violence to… Read more »