200008 Torts Law School of Law, College of Business Learning Guide Autumn Semester 2012 Contents Unit Information Contacts Consultation times Expectations of student conduct Links to key policies and information affecting students Schedule of learning and teaching activities PASS peer mentoring program Actions taken to improve the unit Learning outcomes How the learning activities and assessment will support the learning and teaching outcomes Assessment Information
TOPIC: THE NIGER DELTA STRUGGLES: ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR RESOURCE CONTROL. A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF THE STUDY The Niger Delta region, Nigeria 's oil belt has been the site of a generalized ethnic and regional struggle for self-determination since 1998, the location of often-violent confrontations between local ethnic communities and agents of the Nigerian state and oil companies involved in the extraction and exploitation of oil in the area. What began as community agitation
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