Federal Government resume payments to former Niger Delta militants

   The Federal Government has resumed payments to former Niger Delta militants, as agreed under a 2009 amnesty deal.


   Piriye Kiyaramo, an officer in the government’s Amnesty Office, confirmed this, saying that two months of the ex-militants’ stipends were paid yesterday, with the rest of their stipends to be paid later in batches by the Central Bank of Nigeria.

 
According to Kiyaramo, the paid stipends covered August and September and each former militant is entitled to N65,000 monthly, plus job training.