President Muhammadu Buhari has
confirmed that his administration has opened talks with Niger Delta militants
to end attacks on oil installations and stabilize production. Tompolo and
Buhari Tompolo and Buhari He, however, said the negotiations were done through
oil companies and law-enforcement agencies.
This is even as governors, under the
aegis of Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, may have concluded plans to go on
vacation in Germany. The President, who spoke at a farewell audience with Mr.
Michael Zinner, the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria, at the State
House, Abuja, yesterday, also said his government was studying the instruments
of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration, with a
view to carrying out commitments made but not delivered. “We understand their
feelings; we are studying the instruments. We have to secure the environment,
otherwise investment will not come.
We will do our best for the
country,” he said. The President thanked the government of Germany for its
continued support to Nigeria in efforts to tackle insecurity and the on-going
rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced citizens in crisis areas in the
North-Eastern parts of the country. The outgoing German ambassador noted that
bilateral relations between Nigeria and Germany had improved very much in the
last 12 months of the present administration.
He expressed the readiness of
Germany to assist Nigeria in the rehabilitation process in the North East to
help displaced persons return to their villages. Meanwhile, Nigerian governors
would be embarking on a vocation trip to Germany. Chairman of the forum and
governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari, made the disclosure, Wednesday
night, after a meeting of the forum at the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential
Villa, Abuja. The meeting, which preceded yesterday’s meeting of the National
Economic Council, NEC, featured the German ambassador who made a presentation
on impact of the vacation trip.
FG in talks with
N-Delta militants, Buhari tells German Ambassador
On July 22, 201612:37 amIn NewsComments
By Levinus Nwabughiogu
ABUJA—Officially, President Muhammadu Buhari has confirmed that his
administration has opened talks with Niger Delta militants to end
attacks on oil installations and stabilize production.
Tompolo and Buhari
Tompolo and Buhari
He, however, said the negotiations were done through oil companies and
law-enforcement agencies.
This is even as governors, under the aegis of Nigerian Governors Forum,
NGF, may have concluded plans to go on vacation in Germany.
The President, who spoke at a farewell audience with Mr. Michael Zinner,
the outgoing Ambassador of Germany to Nigeria, at the State House,
Abuja, yesterday, also said his government was studying the instruments
of the Amnesty Programme inherited from the previous administration,
with a view to carrying out commitments made but not delivered.
“We understand their feelings; we are studying the instruments. We have
to secure the environment, otherwise investment will not come. We will
do our best for the country,” he said.
The President thanked the government of Germany for its continued
support to Nigeria in efforts to tackle insecurity and the on-going
rehabilitation and resettlement of displaced citizens in crisis areas in
the North-Eastern parts of the country.
The outgoing German ambassador noted that bilateral relations between
Nigeria and Germany had improved very much in the last 12 months of the
present administration.
He expressed the readiness of Germany to assist Nigeria in the
rehabilitation process in the North East to help displaced persons
return to their villages.
Meanwhile, Nigerian governors would be embarking on a vocation trip to
Germany.
Chairman of the forum and governor of Zamfara State, Abdulaziz Yari,
made the disclosure, Wednesday night, after a meeting of the forum at
the Old Banquet Hall of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The meeting, which preceded yesterday’s meeting of the National Economic
Council, NEC, featured the German ambassador who made a presentation on
impact of the vacation trip.
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