By Jide Ajani & Umoru Henry In another move predicated on a noble objective, some politicians, members of civil society and professionals have again come together to make attempt at setting Nigeria’s democracy on a firm footing insisting that the sanctity of votes is the answer. Interestingly, a miss-mash of politicians who appear to have […]

They’re given 60 days of cease fire, 60 days to make peace. If you go there, nobody will shoot you, look for one or two people, talk to a team, they might not open up, but at least, they will give you an idea. You can’t stop them. They need money, the admonitions will not help them. They need money.

With out a doubt, the greatest problem of the Niger Delta has been neglect, complete absence of infrastructures and the fact that the people of the region are seen as irrelevant and inconsequential.

There is nothing about royalty for the people of the Niger Delta. There is nothing about the cleaning up of the environment which is more damaging to the communities. There is nothing about any condition of how Niger Delta states and communities can have a stake in the industry, for example, a provision that will allow them preference to some oil blocs which they can exploit so that they can have significant practice in the industry.

Speaking during the official signing of the agreement, Kanu, Coordinator of the KHF, said the partnership arrangement had been in incubating for over year but got a break through in May 2009 in England when both parties finally agreed to collaborate in a partnership arrangement where 50 heart patients from the stable of the KHF will receive free open heart surgery every year in the Salam Center for Cardiac Surgery, at the Blue Nile area of Khartoum, Sudan.