- June 2009 — Presidential Amnesty Programme announced for Niger Delta militants. By October 2009 ~26,000 ex-militants accept; the PAP becomes the largest open-ended cash-transfer programme in Nigerian history.Grievance-to-Insurgency Pipeline
- 2010 — Goodluck Jonathan (Ogbia, Bayelsa) becomes President — the first Niger Delta head of state since independence. Federal allocations to Bayelsa surge but governance metrics do not.
Bayelsa State · Crisis deep dive
Yar'Adua / Jonathan (2007–2015)
Methodology
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.