Briga News Nigeria The Presidential Amnesty Programme, on Wednesday, deployed 98 delegates for a boot camp and a refresher course in maritime-related skills as part of its manpower development scheme for the Niger Delta. Addressing the maritime cadets during the flag-off ceremony at the Joemarine Institute of Nautical Studies and Research, Otomewo, Delta State, the…
Briga News Nigeria Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Douye Diri, has been honoured as the Hero of Nigerian Students by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) for his outstanding performance in the education sector. The students’ body led by the Senate President, Comrade Babatunde Akinteye, presented the award on Monday in Government House, Yenagoa….
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE IJAW NATION A CALL FOR SUPPORT FOR THE PRESIDENTIAL AMNESTY PROGRAMME UNDER CHIEF DENNIS BRUTU OTUARO PhD AS ADMINISTRATOR We write as critical stakeholders of the Ijaw nation and Niger Delta region. Ijaw means the truth and we must at all times stand by the truth without fear or favour….
Briga News Nigeria Ijaw youths under the auspices of the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) have called on the Federal Government to approve more funds for the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to enable it perform optimally for sustainable peace of the Niger Delta. The IYC President, Jonathan Lokpobiri, made the comment while speaking with journalists shortly…
Briga News Nigeria Senator James Manager, who represented Delta South Senatorial District in the National Assembly, has said that some of the challenges besetting the Presidential Amnesty Programme are distractions deliberately executed by some elements who do not mean well for the Ijaw nation and indeed the Niger Delta. According to him, the malicious plots…
Briga News Nigeria No fewer than 20 Niger Delta coalition groups have strongly condemned the blackmails, abuses and unfounded lies peddled against the administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Chief Dennis Brutu Otuaro PhD, and High Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo by one according to them hungry and destitute Jude Gbaboyor, secretary to Niger…
Briga News Nigeria The Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) has sought the partnership of the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) on the sustainable peace and security initiatives of the Programme for the stability of the Niger Delta region and indeed Nigeria. Speaking during a courtesy visit to the National Coordinator of the NCTC, Major General Adamu…
Briga News Nigeria Bayelsa State Governor, Senator Douye Diri, has called on the people of Ijaw nation and other well meaning Nigerians to unite and re-strategise in the quest for resource control and restructuring of the country. Governor Diri, who was represented by his deputy, Senator Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the call on Thursday at the…
Briga News Nigeria The Presidential Amnesty Programme has clarified that it was not involved in the “dialogue between stakeholders and former agitators of the Niger Delta”, hosted by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Community Engagement, South-South, Gift Johnbull, in collaboration with one ‘General MightyMan’ in Yenagoa, on Tuesday. The PAP Office made…
Briga News Nigeria The Presidential Amnesty Programme has dissociated itself from a purported ‘demobilisation exercise’ being bandied in the Niger Delta by unscrupulous elements who are going about collecting money from unsuspecting members of the public for pipeline surveillance and other vocational trades. A statement signed by Mr Igoniko Oduma, the Special Assistant on Media…