This work details the history of oil and gas related conflict in Nigeria that started since oil was first discovered in Olobiri, in the Niger Delta region in 1956. It discusses how income from oil and gas resources marginalized the productive sector of the Nigerian economy leading to poverty ...
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Living among creeks, lagoons, and salt marshes makes fishing and the salt trade part of everyday life in the area. The Niger and Benue Rivers come together in the center of the country, creating a "Y" that splits Nigeria into three separate sections. In general, this "Y" marks the ...
Nigeria and the Poetry of Travails: The Niger Delta in the Poetry of Uche Umez Especially since the execution of the writer and Ogoni activist, Ken Saro鈥揥iwa, international attention has been drawn to the plight of the Niger Delta. Oil-rich but cynically plundered and exploited, the Niger...
A history of Nigeria Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and the world's eighth largest oil producer, but its success has been undermined in recent decades by ethnic and religious conflict, political instability, rampant official corruption and an aili... T Falola,MM Heaton - 《...
of Northern Nigeria and brought under the Colonial Secretary. Similarly, the Niger Coast Protectorate, which had been under the Foreign Secretary, was renamed the Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and brought under the Colonial Secretary. In addition, the narrow “strip of Royal Niger Company from ...
The Fulani empire ruled the region from the beginning of the 19th century until the British annexed Lagos in 1851 and seized control of the rest of the region by 1886. It formally became the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914. During World War I, native troops of the West African...
OIL POLITICS IN ECUADOR AND NIGERIA: A PERSPECTIVE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL HISTOR Y ON THE STRUGGLES BETWEEN ETHNIC MINORITY GROUPS, MULTINATIONAL OIL COMPANIES AND NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS OIL POLITICS IN ECUADOR AND NIGERIA: A PERSPECTIVE FROM ENVIRONMENTAL HISTOR Y ON THE STRUGGLES BETWEEN ETHNIC MINORITY GRO...
jailing people even for littering, and ordering civil servants who arrived late to work to do squats. He gagged the press and jailed journalists to cover up a deepening economic crisis as prices tumbled for the oil on which Nigeria's economy depends. He eventually was overthrown by his own ...
TheJos plateauis in the center of Nigeria, but the first extensive kingdoms of the region – more than a millennium after the Nok societies – are in the north and northeast, originating their wealth from trade north through the Sahara and east into the Sudan. ...