Even with all the anticipated positive impact of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) on the oil and gas sector of the economy, it has remained mired in inexplicable stalemate, unable to find its way back to the legislature from the executive to which it was returned in 2014.
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Oscarline Onwuemenyi 20 August 2016, Sweetcrude, Abuja – The United Niger Delta Energy Development Security Strategy (UNDEDSS) has said President…
Boroh also appealed to the ex-agitators in the region to shelve the planned protests scheduled for today (Monday) over the delay in payment of their allowances.
The group further urged the president to revive the now-comatose platform of the holistic 2009 Amnesty Dynamic that late President Umar Yar’ Adua deployed, adding that it was the only way to stem the tide of the dangerously imploding reality of armed agitation in the Niger Delta.
It is unclear if talks have already begun. An official at the state-owned oil company told a news agency last week that the government and the Avengers had agreed to a cease-fire, a charge the group denied on its Twitter account.