Money for development in Niger Delta

Nigeria's president, Umaru Yar'Adua, has approved a fund of more than one billion US dollars, for development projects in the oil-rich Niger Delta.

The plan is to pump the money into major projects like roads, hospitals, schools and higher education institutions.

This is the president's latest effort to halt years of unrest that has kept Nigeria's vital crude oil exports well below it's actual capacity.

Young Kibara, an official from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni people, a pressure group from the area, gave this reaction to the BBC's Abdulahi Kaura.