Nigeria opposition leader to continue controversial amnesty programme

Nigeria's main opposition presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar would continue the country's Niger Delta amnesty programme, a policy advisor told Reuters on Thursday. The controversial programme gives stipends to former militants in the oil-rich Delta region. Incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari sought to overhaul the programme early in his tenure, triggering a renewed series of attacks on oil facilities, but later continued with the existing arrangement.