Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta

production and sale of oil. These problems are all especially evident in the Niger Delta. As a resident of the Niger Delta and an ethnic minority within Nigeria, I have a unique perspective on the situations at hand, as well as how they aught to be remedied. I hope to see citizens of the Delta gain an increased amount of regional autonomy, as well as to see the Delta receive more financial benefits for its role in the nation’s largest and most profitable export. I hope to see these changes reflected in new fiscal and environmental government policies, in conjunction with greater…

ethical behaviour in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta as well as in the home country The Netherlands. This research will also attempt to compare and contrast Shell’s corporate social responsibility policies in the home country (The Netherlands), and in the off shore country (Nigeria). I will attempt to answer the Hypothesis -H1 which assert that there is a paradigm shift with regards to CSR policies in developing countries which is due to high corporate influence than developed countries.…

The Primitive Accumulation and the Double-Movement. The excessiveness of the oil industry in the Delta region has disposed of the owners of the Niger Delta lands. This dispossession emanates from the manner in which capitalism puts production and profit making above other interests in the region. According to Karl Marx, “the capitalist system can be none other than the process that takes away from the laborer the possession of his means of production.” Marx would say that the behavior of…

The study “Newspaper Coverage of the Niger Delta Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Government and Privately Owned Newspapers in Nigeria” was motivated by the need to check crises in the country as well as proffer solution to resolving the crisis in the Niger Delta region especially as the crisis had taken a rather horrendous dimension in recent years. The media have been said to be at the fore front of the crisis, either escalating or helping to resolve the crisis. The purpose of the study was…

Zac Uberoi Environmental Docs The goal of Sandy Cioffi’s film, Sweet Crude, is to tell the untold story of oil in the Niger Delta. Coiffi intended to persuade her audience to think deeper and differently about the issue, instigating a fight for global awareness and non-violent political solutions. Joe Berlinger’s film, Crude The Real Price of Oil, attempts to send a very similar message. Examining the case between Chevron and Ecuador, Crude tells a story about Ecuadorian disenfranchisement and…

oil activities ceased as the First World War commenced in 1914 due to the hostilities between Great Britain and Germany and even worse as Germany lost the war too. After the First and second world wars , crude oil activities halted for the most part until 1953 when shell D`Arcy surfaced under the flags of Great Britain and the Netherlands. Initially, shell D`Arcy commenced crude oil activities in the Eastern region of Nigeria and is one of the biggest oil producing companies today in the…