PUNCH NEWS Beneficiaries of the second and third phases of the Presidential Amnesty Programme have appealed to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to extend the tenure of the Interim Administrator, Col Milland Dikio (retd.). The ex-agitators made the…
VANGUARD The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, PAP, Colonel Milland Dixon Dikio, Retd, says the era of servicing contractors and their cronies are gone for good. He said that the PAP will no longer patronize contractors at the…
GBARAMATU VOICE Trouble is brewing in the Niger Delta over the decision of the Federal Government to seize N26b belonging to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) under the guise of unspent budgetary provision. Investigation showed that the Amnesty Office was…
THE PUNCH Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, says it is not necessary and proper to politicise the Federal Government’s Presidential Amnesty Programme for ex-agitators in the Niger Delta. Diri, who stated this when he played host to the Interim Administrator…
THE GUARDIAN Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (rtd.), has assured ex-agitators of prompt and full payment of their monthly stipends. He gave the assurance in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, at the weekend, during…
THIS DAY Nigeria’s Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) created in 2009 by the government of late President Umaru Yar’Adua was not meant to fix the socio-economic and environmental difficulties faced by people living in the oil-bearing Niger Delta region, but chiefly…
THIS DAY Two contradictory images and news feeds recently competed for this reporter’s attention. The first was a ceremonial outing in the North East displaying rows of ‘repentant’ Boko Haram combatants in neat government uniforms. They were being admitted into…
VANGUARD The Honorable member representing Yenago/Kolokuma/Opokuma Constituency of Bayelsa State at the House of Representatives, Prof Steve Sinikiem Azaiki has sent a word to President Buhari to re-instate the Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty Programme, Prof Charles Dokubo. He made this…
THE GUARDIAN Niger Delta Youths have called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) to urgently address all the issues threatening the implementation of the programme and peace in the oil rich region. In…
GUARDIAN NIGERIA A Niger Delta militant group, the Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC) has demanded that the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) be transferred to the office of the Chief of Staff (COS) to the President and head of the Nigerian National…