After a sustained bombing of oil facilities reducing Nigeria’s oil output and revenue, the Niger Delta Avengers has said that it is now willing to dialogue with the Federal Government. As a prelude to the talks and an expression of readiness to lay down arms and embrace peace, the NDA, Wednesday, raised what it calls “Contact and Dialogue Team headed by a former Director of Youth Development in the Niger Delta Commission, Mr. Ballantyne Agiri, to act as its spokesman. Agiri in a statement he personally signed and sent to Vanguard in Abuja on Wednesday, said that the militant group was serious about engaging the Federal Government and end the cycle of violence and oil disruption in the Niger Delta. The former director disclosed that NDA would now be asking the Federal Government to take up the development of the Niger Delta with more seriousness, adding that it was determined to achieve results that would yield lasting peace, equity, justice and harmony among all ethnic nationalities in Nigeria. Agiri said: “The body has collectively and willingly agreed to heed the clarion call of eminent Nigerians and international community to dialogue with the Federal Government. “The federal government should from the inception of the dialogue rule out from the agenda any monthly monetary inducement or stipend for the NDA. “The federal government should be ready for structural changes that should be human and development oriented. “Members of the avengers’ group (who will participate in the dialogue) have already been selected, each based on his integrity, forthrightness, honesty and life track records. “The names of members of the group for now shall not be made public for personal reasons until they begin functioning in few days ahead.” He urged Nigerians and the international community to follow the event and watch out which side would default in terms of abiding by the rules and spirit of the dialogue. NDA has however been split into factions, thereby weakening its agenda to dry up Niger Delta oil and cause hardship for the Buhari administration. Miffed by the challenge, the Nigerian Army has however moved its troops into the region to keep the peace and protect critical oil assets, which fetch the nation its major revenue.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/niger-delta-avengers-changes-tone-says-ready-talk-fg/

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Some people somewhere have now seen they are not that special. Diversification is working.
They can fucking drink their oyel.

i just de laugh those ipod that were saying this small-small rat avengers wants to dares d millitary air-strike,

This is good news and a welcome development. FG should please dialogue with them as they say. if their conditions involved measures that would fast track the development and industrialisation of the Niger Delta region, and education of the people, these should be wholeheartedly embraced.
If however it is to ask for placement on life salaries for no work done in the name of 'amnesty', then I suggest they all be rounded up and thrown into jail, starting with their spokesman.

Mylove55:
i just de laugh those ipod that were saying this small-small rat avengers wants to dares d millitary air-strike,

Don't beat chest bro... They already said itz a lie... N:B m not supporting them
https://www.nairaland.com/3294523/no-negotiation-dialogue-federal-govt#48568915

Peace is all we need. Power has dropped drastically in the past few weeks. I hope Buhari doesn't listen his herd of sycophants who sang him to this current unpleasant economic state.

Do not 'peace' here...






Fine-#2000

plainol:
Some people somewhere have now seen they are not that special. Diversification is working.
They can fucking drink their oyel.

Grow up! It was the babyish heraldry of infants like you that misled Buhari, and ultimately culminated in the economic labyrinth we find ourselves today.

Take your baby syrup...

From a naija deltan that never supported the NDA, I support this move of the NDA and urge FG to follow it up immediately to end the "war".

Let's all put Nigeria FIRST this time around.

What is this, tori olorun?

Which dialogue? After killing soldiers and practically grounded the economy? U can't just decide to go for dialogue after committing offence of this scale against the state. If the fg listen to these militants in this regards, then we still have a very long way to go in this country. They should continue the bombing.

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See their tweets

Not a prohet, but I can say what will scatter the talks or negotiations..... NDA will want one of the conditions to be that Tompolo should be left alone. or even say that....... or even say that Tompolo is the only one that can bring an end to all th future problems in Niger Delta... that he commands the respect of everyone, .........and Buhari will never agree to that....

Not a prohet, but I can say what will scatter the talks or negotiations..... NDA will want one of the conditions to be that Tompolo should be left alone. or even say that....... or even say that Tompolo is the only one that can bring an end to all th future problems in Niger Delta... that he commands the respect of everyone, .........and Buhari will never agree to that....