Metro FG Resumes Payments Of Ex-Niger Delta Militants

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President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government has resumed payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country’s Niger Delta oil hub, an official told Reuters.

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Piriye Kiyaramo, an officer in the Amnesty Office said: “Two months of the ex-militants stipends were paid yesterday…The rest of their stipends will be paid later in batches by (central bank) CBN”.

He said the paid stipends covered August and September.

- Reuters
 
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