Niger Delta

The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River at the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.

It is a very densely populated region sometimes called the Oil Rivers because it was once a major producer of palm oil. The area was the British Oil Rivers Protectorate from 1885 until 1893, when it was expanded and became the Niger Coast Protectorate. The delta is an oil-rich region, and has been the centre of international controversy over pollution, corruption (notably by the Abacha regime), and human rights violations.

Geography

The Niger Delta, as now defined officially by the Nigerian government, extends over about 70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi) and makes up 7.5% of Nigeria's land mass. Historically and cartographically, it consists of present-day Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers States. In 2000, however, Obasanjo's regime included Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Cross River State, Edo, Imo and Ondo States in the region. Some 31 million people of more than 40 ethnic groups including the Bini, Efik, Esan, Ibibio, Igbo, Annang, Oron, Ijaw, Itsekiri, Yoruba, Isoko, Urhobo, Ukwuani, Kalabari and Ogoni, are among the inhabitants in the Niger Delta, speaking about 250 different dialects.

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Tinubu to Ogoni Leaders: We Can’t Heal Past Wounds, If We Continue to Be Angry

This Day 22 Jan 2025
Also, yesterday, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), urged the federal government to earmark $1trillion for immediate clean-up of the degraded Niger Delta environment and compensation for loss of livelihoods ... Niger Delta and compensation for loss of livelihoods....
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CSOs demand $1trn for Ogoniland clean-up, compensation for loss of livelihoods

Business Day Online 21 Jan 2025
reject planned resumption of oil extraction Concerned Civil Society Organisations in the Niger Delta have demanded that $1 trillion. read more CSOs demand $1trn for Ogoniland clean-up, compensation for loss of livelihoods ... ....
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Tinubu Meets Ogoni Leaders over Oil Exploration, Fubara, Wike in Attendance

This Day 21 Jan 2025
Breaking . 1 hour ago ... Managing Director Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief Samuel Ogbuku on behalf of the Federal Government had noted that stand-offs in the face of growing energy crisis occasioned by the removal of oil subsidy by the federal government has robbed the nation of vital Gross Domestic Product (GDP) over the years ... ....
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Nigeria : President Tinubu floods oil-rich Niger Delta with funds

Africa Intelligence 20 Jan 2025
Nigeria's 2025 budget, due for a final vote this month, once again reveals the extent to which the stability of .......
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Deltans are Feeling Impact of Oborevwori’s Development, Says Clark

This Day 19 Jan 2025
Elder statesman and convener of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark, has commended Delta State Governor, Hon ... He berated the Senator representing Delta North Senatorial District, Senator Ned Nwoko, over his allegations of ineffectiveness on the part of the Oborevwori’s administration, describing the notion as unfounded....
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Environmental rights as Constitutional rights: Nigeria’s legal evolution

Business Day Online 19 Jan 2025
Introduction The environmental crisis in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region represents one of the most severe cases of industrial pollution in. read more Environmental rights as Constitutional rights. Nigeria’s legal evolution ... ....
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FOR A SAFER, CLEANER AND PROSPEROUS NIGERIA 

This Day 17 Jan 2025
Life & Style . 2 hours ago. The country has a lot to learn from Rwanda, South Africa and Malaysia on issues of the environment, contends SONNY IROCHE ... a lack of discipline and environmental degradation ... In the Niger Delta, gas flaring continues to harm the environment, while street vendors contribute to pollution through open-fire cooking ... ....
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Kayode Ojewale (1984-2024): Departing Soon at Noon

This Day 17 Jan 2025
Life & Style . 3 hours ago. Banji Ojewale ... He was a migratory writer ... Kayode also had a promising presence in the online publications. Premium Times, Newspot, Sahara Reporters, etc. He wrote and read lustily ... He also preyed on books ... “Asamabiri can…be the food basket of the Niger Delta if the authorities harness its agricultural products ... ....
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Ogoni women restore mangroves and livelihoods in oil-rich Niger Delta

Mongabay 16 Jan 2025
A women-led reforestation effort has planted millions of mangrove trees with a high survival rate across swamps in Nigeria’s oil-rich and severely degraded Niger Delta ... The Niger Delta hosts Africa’s biggest mangrove forest ecosystem and is also home to some of the continent’s largest oil and gas reserves....
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Ijaw Youths  Hail Tinubu, Otuaro over  Transformative Leadership in N’ Delta

This Day 16 Jan 2025
Dennis  Otuaro for their commitment to developing the Niger Delta region ... They noted further that “had previous administrations shown similar sustained dedication to human capital development in the Niger Delta, our region might have avoided the path to militancy.”....
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Military Raises Red Flag Over Influx of Foreign Terror Fighters Into Nigeria 

This Day 16 Jan 2025
Nigeria . 26 minutes ago. Linus Aleke in Abuja  ... Buba said that troops in the Niger Delta area discovered and destroyed 46 illegal refining sites, 48 crude oil cooking ovens, 10 dugout pits, 56 storage tanks and apprehended 29 perpetrators of oil theft ... ....
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Residents, CSOs Decry Heat  from  NNPCL Facility in Rivers Community

This Day 16 Jan 2025
Nigeria . 2 hours ago. Blessing Ibunge in Port Harcourt ... Williams said ... Christopher explained  that host communities of the Niger Delta region have continued to suffer impacts of oil exploration for decades and called for remediation and compensation processes for the impacted communities of the spill and fire outbreak. ....
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NDDC Seeks Support for Underprivileged, Elderly in Nigeria 

This Day 15 Jan 2025
The Executive Director of Corporate Services, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Ifedayo Abegunde, has appealed to organisations and the elite to extend a hand of fellowship to underprivileged citizens, especially the elderly in the society ... lives across the Niger Delta....

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