Nigeria allocates 950m for "post-amnesty" projects in Niger Delta.

Text of report by Nigerian newspaper This Day website on 20 October

[Report by George Oji: "FG Earmarks $950m 'Stimulus' for N'Delta Yar'Adua Meets Okah, Pledges To Confer With 'Every and Any One' for Peace"]

It emerged yesterday that President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has directed that Federal Government's share of the $2 billion stimulus package just released into the economy should be set aside for post-amnesty public works in the Niger Delta subject to appropriation by the National Assembly.

Federal Government's share, which is $950 million, will be exclusively devoted to projects in the oil-producing region as Yar'Adua seeks a lasting solution to the …