Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta region has continuously been conceived as a context of terror and political violence. However, this representation of the Niger Delta is deemed too schematic and misleading since it does not account for oil production's complicated local and human issues...
prodelta [′prō‚del·tə] (geology) The part of a delta lying beyond the delta front, and sloping gently down to the basin floor of the delta; it is entirely below the water level. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill...
(about 750 km), the river flows through a wide valley and becomes navigable. At the town of Lokoja the Niger receives its principal tributary, the Benue, and becomes a mighty stream up to 3 km wide and 20 m and more deep. The Niger Delta (24,000 sq km) begins 180 km from the ...
Niger River, the third-longest river in Africa, has its source in Guinea. It runs 4,180 kilometers passing through five countries before pouring its content into the Atlantic Ocean via the Niger Delta. What makes waters of Niger River to be clear is due to its headwaters flowing over ancie...
The three main varieties of deltas are the arcuate (the Nile), the bird's-foot (the Mississippi), and the cuspate (the Tiber). The Nile, Mississippi, Niger, Rhine, Danube, Kuban, Volga, Amu Darya, Indus, Ganges-Brahmaputra, Ayeyarwady, Tigris and Euphrates, and Huang He (Yellow) ...
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Bayelsa shares a boundary with Rivers state to the East and Delta state to the West, with the waters of the Atlantic Ocean dominating it’s Southern borders. History During the 20th century, demands for a new, majority-Ijaw state to be drawn in the Niger Delta Region became common. Betwee...
The Fallacy of 50% Derivation.ByNafata Bamaguje Anyone who is aware of the stupendous amount of money that accrues to the Niger Delta in terms of derivation, NDDC and even help from oil companies cannot honestly assert that underdevelopment of the Delta is due to lack of funds. As pointed...
Nigeria is the world's eighth-largest crude oil producer, but it is one of the poorest countries in the world. It is estimated that in the total population of about 70% people were living below the poverty line. In the past 50 years, mining extraction in the Niger Delta of Nigeria's ...
Now, rather than attending to the demands of the Ogoni people, the Nigeria ruling cabal and Shell elected to bloody their nose, just to send a message to similarly deprived communities in the Niger delta. Davido is correct; The Naira is becoming a junk currency; Reno is a layman economist...