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Wednesday

Hostility as buhari gives NDA two weeks for Negotiation

  
President Muhammadu Buhari told the military to stop confrontations with Niger Delta militants who have vandalized pipelines and other major oil installations in the area.
The Minister of State for Petroleum, in Abuja said an order has been issued regarding it suspension on it hostility towards militants to make available negotiation with NDA.
Federal Government is firm to help negotiate with an opinion to re-establishing peace in the region.
The president stated two weeks is enough for negotiations on the predominant condition in the area.
 “The President is interested in dialogue and has mandated the military to halt actions for about two weeks to ensure a team that will be led by the NSA, dialogues with the militants to ensure peace in the region.

‘’The avenue is open for them, provided the militants are willing to embrace dialogue and allow truth to reign because we are going to involve key leaders from the region who have had previous experience in that area to play whatever role they can.” According to Kachikwu

Tuesday

WAR? PDP accused of sponsoring Niger Delta Avengers


L: Niger Delta Twitter photo R: A photo taken in September 2008 showing a fighter of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend), holding his weapons at the militia's creek camp in the Niger Delta.



South chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC refer to the rebirth of violence in the Niger Delta region as a scheme to disturb and disrupt President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.

They accused their rival Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, of funding the new militant group bombing in the oil and gas installations in the country, the now known  the Niger Delta Avengers. This allegation was made in Edo state at the end of a meeting.
They added the antagonising party PDP this bent on provoking the APC ruler ship under President Muhammadu Buhari due to its resolve to fight against fraud, stabilize and put our country on the path of sustainable development”.
The APC believe that most of the avengers are not devoted to their country. The zone believes the NDA are selfish, after which their activities was condemned.
Prince Hilliard Eta, the APC National Vice-Chairman South South and  Steven Ezekwem  the Zonal Secretary, criticized the addition of the Niger Delta region in the “imaginary State of Biafra” added the it was “suspicious”, said, “Niger Delta is not, cannot and will never be part of Biafra”.
Praises were also directed to President Buhari and the APC-led federal government for the resolution to launch the tidying of Ogoniland and other parts of Niger Delta.

The South South APC finally asked the federal government to rebuild the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, to redirect and put up all the constituent states of the region.