Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme and Special Adviser to the President on the Niger Delta, Prof Charles Dokubo, has described the handover note he received from his predecessor as “a maze of words and figures that left many questions unanswered.” He said his resolve to make meaning out of the “scanty” handover note and […]
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When T.Y. Bello (Toyin Sofekun-Bello) sang: “The land is green, is green, oh oh oh; the land is green, is green, can’t you see” she might have had the Niger Delta in mind. No part of our country is more lush fully green than the Niger Delta with its all-year round rainfall. Even in times […]
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The Coordinator, Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh, says the PAP is winding down its re-integration programme in enhancing human capacity development. Boroh said this when he paid a courtesy visit on the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), Mr Bayo Onanuga, in Abuja on Wednesday. The coordinator said he had carefully […]
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Co-ordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brigadier- General Paul Boroh (retd), has said that he has pardoned the 261 ex-agitators who petitioned the Presidency against him and warned them to stop playing politics with national interest. Reacting to a public apology by delegates of the John Togo Camp that had written a petition against him, […]
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Brig.-Gen. Paul Boroh (rtd), Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on Niger Delta, has expressed concern over the delay in payment of stipends of former militants in the Niger Delta region. Boroh’s concern was conveyed in a statement signed by Mr Piriye Kiyaramo, Bayelsa Liaison Officer, Presidential Amnesty Programme and made available to the News […]
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Foremost Ijaw youth organization, the Ijaw Youth Council Worldwide has warned that not until President Muhammadu Buhari put machineries in place for the relevant constitutional amendment to revert Nigeria back to the practice of fiscal and true federalism or immediately began the implementation of the resolutions of the 2014 national conference, agitations including militancy in […]
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The Senate Committee on Niger Delta has indicted President Muhammadu Buhari’s coordinator of the programme, Brig-Gen. Paul Boro (rtd) for buying official vehicles for his office for over N157 million as well as the huge sums of money purported to have been expended on the training of ex-militants between November and December last year. This […]
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