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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Niger Delta"”.
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Maa-Bara : catalyzing change in Nigeria's Niger delta
… growth of pandemic proportions. Case in point: Nigeria's Niger Delta, home of the nation's oil wealth, and paradoxically home of the nation's poorest citizenry. Where over 85% of the populace are without access to safe water and an average of 13 million barrels of crude oil annually spill to …
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Public relations and peace negotiation in the Niger Delta
… oil was discovered in 1956, in Bayelsa State in Nigeria. Expectations were high that this find would deliver socio-economic advancement of the entire Niger Delta region in which it is located. Instead, serious hostilities have arisen based on reactions to an unequal distribution of oil wealth, …
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Political Marginalisation and Political Violence in the Niger Delta
… in, and justify political violence in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region. The dominant literature in this area tends to highlight political, economic and identity marginalisation as the causal factors behind political violence. However, there remains a lack of clarity in the conceptualisation …
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The emergence of ethnic militia movements in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-105).
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The Niger Delta conflict and the irony of invisible empire
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.
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Interrogating frustration-aggression from environmental degradation in The Niger Delta conflict
… the major beneficiaries of the Bayelsa State (Niger Delta) environment – the multinational oil corporations (MNOCs) and the Nigerian government (NG) to degrade that environment – their benefactor. The special interest of this thesis lies in understanding why the degradation continued even with …
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The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta
The representation of the Niger Delta insurgency in cultural texts is often registered from the viewpoint of human history, an approach that foregrounds the politics of resistance against the multinational oil corporations in ways that ignore the contribution of the non-human elements in the …
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A critical assessment of corporate community engagement (CCE) in the Niger Delta.
… relationships (OPRs). The thesis focuses on the Nigerian oil and gas industry community relationship in the Niger Delta region. This study provides valuable insights into how CCE works for enhancing stakeholder relationship and other desirable outcomes and thereby contributes to the growing body …
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The Famished Road: Oil Dependency and Socioeconomic Underdevelopment in the Niger Delta
… between indigenous communities within the Nigerian Delta region and the Federal government regarding the management of petroleum resources and its implication for the general socioeconomic development of the Nigerian State. It investigates the correlation between the broader issues of …
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Fuelling the fires : the political economy of conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-116).
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Governance, poverty and natural resources management. A case study of the Niger Delta
… poverty and natural resources management in the Delta region. The research develops a framework for governance of natural resources to understand the daily practices of different actors within the local context using informal observation and interviews. In applying the framework, the study places …
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Gender and the Political Economy of Oil in the Niger Delta: A Feminist Critique
… examining the ways in which women's labor in the Niger Delta—the oil-producing region of Nigeria—is integrated into, impacted by, and shaping the Nigerian oil political economy. I argue that the Nigerian oil political economy exploits the waged labor of women oil workers and unwaged labor of rural …
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Perceptions and Grievances: Impact of Resource Governance on Protracted Conflicts in Nigeria's Niger Delta
<p>Abstract</p> <p>During the past two decades, Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been the setting of conflicts associated with crude oil production and the distribution of proceeds from petroleum rents, royalties, and taxes. In the mid-1990s, grievances and protests against perceived unfair allocation of …
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A Critical Evaluation of the 2009 Niger Delta Amnesty Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme
… prevention and resolution using the 2009 Niger Delta ADDR programme as a case study. The study evaluated the effectiveness of the programme using the minimalist and maximalist framework advanced in the DDR literature. The key findings and conclusions of the Study were that a minimalist DDR …
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A Critical Evaluation of the 2009 Niger Delta Amnesty Disarmament Demobilisation and Reintegration Programme
… prevention and resolution using the 2009 Niger Delta ADDR programme as a case study. The study evaluated the effectiveness of the programme using the minimalist and maximalist framework advanced in the DDR literature. The key findings and conclusions of the Study were that a minimalist DDR …
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Non-adherence of MNOCs to corporate obligations: a review of litigation from the Niger Delta.
… rights and environmental litigations from the Niger Delta undermines these obligations, because they continually deny, delay and derail justice for the local communities. The central question is whether there is a conflict between the portrayal of these companies' positions before the courts …
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Petrophysical and geomechanical characterization of a marginal (Wabi) field reservoir in north-central Niger Delta.
… and reservoir management for Wabi field, onshore Niger Delta. The increase in oil and gas demand globally has necessitated the re-evaluation of mature depleted and marginal fields for enhancement of hydrocarbon recovery and development in the Niger delta province. These oil and gas fields are …
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From the Creeks to the Community: The Reintegration of Ex-combatants in Nigeria’s Niger Delta
<p>Nigeria’s Niger Delta region was beset by several decades of communal turmoil when combatants took up arms against the government and oil companies to protest decades of neglect of the region. These conflicts eased in 2009 when the Federal Government of Nigeria instituted an amnesty program that …
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Bioremediation of modelled petroleum-contaminated soils of the Niger Delta and the impact of zeolite augmentation
… modelled petroleum oil-contaminated soils of the Niger Delta by a mixed culture of three hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria, Acinetobacter sp, Rhodococcus sp and Pseudomonas sp, was investigated. These bacterial strains were selected based on criteria that they were able to utilize hydrocarbons …
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Investigating the effects of resource seeking foreign direct investment in Niger Delta on Nigeria’s economic growth
In Nigeria, the dominant foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows are in the oil and gas sector, which is determined by factor of natural endowment. This study justified that natural resource is the motivation for MNEs internalisation activities in the country. As a result, this research critically …
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