federal government has resume payment to ex-militants.

The Governemt official said on thurady that The Federal Government of Nigeria has start up the payments of cash stipends to former militants agreed under a 2009 amnesty in the country's Niger Delta oil hub.

The government has been discussing  with the militants to stop the attacks on crude pipelines which reduced Nigeria's output by 700,000 barrels a day for several months last year.

Authorities originally cut the budget for the payments of the militants to stop the corruption but later start up the payments to end pipeline attacks crippling vital oil revenues.

"Two months of the ex-militants' fixed sum of money paid periodically for service were paid yesterday ... The rest of their fixed sum of money paid periodically for service will be paid later in batches by (central bank) CBN," said Piriye Kiyaramo, an officer in the government's Amnesty Office.

He said that the payment of the fixed sum of money paid periodically for service  covered August and September.

Each former militant  is entitled to get the sum of 65,000 naira ($206.68) every months  plus job training.

 spokesman for the Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) name Eric Omare, which represents the Delta's biggest ethnic group,he said the former militants had complained to the region's top negotiator handling talks with the government about the delay payment of there money.

President Muhammadu Buhari meet with the Niger Delta leaders and the representatives for the militants in November to talk about their demands but little progress has taken place publicly since then.

The militants and people of the area who sympathise with them saying that they want a greater share of Nigeria's oil wealth to cause to become poor region.

The Crude oil  saller  make up to  70 percent of government revenue and the attacks have deepened an economic problems brought on by low global oil prices.

Nigeria  produces up to 1.8m barrels currently every day of crude, last month the oil minister said that, the latest official figure.

 He further said 2.2 million bpd has been the output at the start of 2016 when a wave of pipeline attacks began.