{"id":11133,"date":"2016-08-25T23:05:46","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2016-08-25T23:08:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T23:08:03","slug":"fg-not-doing-enough-to-douse-the-tension-in-the-niger-delta-region-wole-soyinka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11133","title":{"rendered":"FG not doing enough &#8220;to douse the tension in the Niger Delta region\u201d. &#8211; Wole Soyinka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10060&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to be more proactive in dealing with the problems of the Niger Delta region.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka made the call during a press conference in Lagos and was of the opinion that federal government was not doing enough to douse \u201cthe tension in the Niger Delta reg<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wole_soyinka.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9692\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9692\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wole_soyinka-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"wole_soyinka\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wole_soyinka-300x193.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wole_soyinka.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>ion\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He called on President Buhari to change its government\u2019s style and move swiftly to deal with the issues of the Niger Delta.<\/p>\n<p>The resurgence in militant activities in the Niger Delta has badly affected the Nation\u2019s revenue generation.<\/p>\n<p>Bombings of oil installations have reduced Nigeria\u2019s oil output by 700,000 barrels per day to 1.56 million bpd.<\/p>\n<div class=\"insert-post-ads\">\n<div id=\"jssor_1\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<div data-u=\"slides\">\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>However, one of the militant groups, the Niger Delta Avengers, has agreed to a ceasefire and commencement of negotiation with government\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>On the Nation\u2019s Education Sector, Soyinka condemned the removal of History as a subject in the nation\u2019s school curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>He said the decision was responsible for what he called the low quality of the nation\u2019s learning.<\/p>\n<p>The Noble Laureate also condemned the activities of the Boko Haram terrorists in the northeast of Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Boko Haram insurgency was a result of religious lunacy and called on security agencies to wipe terrorists out of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Soyinka, who met with President Buhari in the Aso Villa recently, said that the meeting was\u00a0to discuss issues about his interactions in the House of Commons with the President.<\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=10060&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari, to be more proactive in dealing with the problems of the Niger Delta region. Soyinka made the call during a press conference in Lagos and was of the opinion that federal government was not doing enough to douse \u201cthe tension in the Niger Delta region\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":9692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[154,201,212],"class_list":["post-11133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-niger-delta","tag-wole-soyinka"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wole_soyinka.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Tz","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11135,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions\/11135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}