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Oil, NGOs & youths: struggles for resource control in the Niger delta

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  • Caroline Ifeka

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The Niger Delta, one of the world's largest wetlands and the sixth largest exporter of crude oil, is notorious for environmental pollution, poverty and violence. For four decades the Federal Nigerian Government has neglected its obligations to fishing communities in the vicinity of oil wells or facing offshore platforms. Although the Federal Government takes 60% of the dollar sales of crude oil (40% goes to the oil companies), the political class has declined to regulate gas flaring, pipeline maintenance or levels of spillage. Frustrated by their exclusion from the benefits of oil, militant youths attack oil company installations, hi‐jack personnel, and lay waste to villages believed to harbour oil reserves, leaving many homeless. These angry subalterns believe that their communities own and should control of the natural resources in their vicinity. The consequence is an increase of casualties in inter‐communal raids and counter‐raids, in wildfires at spillage sites, and in shootings by ‘mobile police’ when demonstrating youths enter the oil installations that they guard.

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  • Caroline Ifeka, 2001. "Oil, NGOs & youths: struggles for resource control in the Niger delta," Review of African Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 28(87), pages 99-105.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:revape:v:28:y:2001:i:87:p:99-105
    DOI: 10.1080/03056240108704507
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    1. Malachy Chidike Igwilo, 2022. "Niger Delta Conflict and the Challenge of Oil Security in Nigeria," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 6(6), pages 638-644, June.
    2. Edlyne Anugwom, 2011. "Something Mightier: Marginalization, Occult Imaginations and the Youth Conflict in the Oil-Rich Niger Delta," Africa Spectrum, Institute of African Affairs, GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, vol. 46(3), pages 3-26.
    3. Christian Omobhude & Shih-Hsin Chen, 2019. "Social Innovation for Sustainability: The Case of Oil Producing Communities in the Niger Delta region," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(23), pages 1-26, November.

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