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Bayelsa State · Crises, Wars & Protests

Bayelsa State · Crisis deep dive

Yar'Adua / Jonathan (2007–2015)

  • 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.
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.