Conflict in the Niger Delta

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    Africa it is the biggest nation when it comes to population in the continent. The Nigerian people belong to many diverse ethnic groups. This Ethnicity give the nation unlikely culture but they also face some difficulty to the nation building. Ethnic conflict has been one of the nation old problems since it gained independence in the year 1960. Formally known as Federal Republic of Nigeria. Nigeria has a central form of government and is allocated into 36 states and a federal capital territory Abuja

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    (Amnesty Report, 2005; UNDP, 2005; ICG, 2006a, 2006b). Another factor contributing to the political instability is that local militias directly aimed their attacks to oil facilities. In 2006, MEND (the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta) sought to cut Nigeria’s oil output by 30 per cent achieving its goal by costing the economy more than $2.180 billion lost in oil revenues. Moreover, between 1999 and 2005 the Nigerian government estimated the losses or revenues due to political

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    Shell Oil company began oil exploitation in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in 1956. It became evident that for the Ogoni, the environmental and social costs of oil exploitation would be painfully high. Beginning December 1992, the people of Ogoni issued a thirty-day demand notice to Shell, which raised

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    into Europe and Asia. Homo erectus gave way to homo sapiens around 100,000 years ago. The first homo sapiens formed the Bushman culture of skilled hunter-gatherers. Around 2,500 years ago Bantu peoples migrated into Southern Africa from the Niger River Delta. The Bushmen and the Bantu lived mostly peacefully together, although since neither had any method of writing, researchers know little of this

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    situation of terrorism – Boko Haram, and the end is not in sight yet. Every terrorist group that have had brutal impacts on the country have been established based on tribal or religious dissatisfaction: the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is one of such which fomented troubles aimed at securing recognition for the South-South from the Federal Government; Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) has also staged series of attacks to facilitate

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    groups have been fighting to have control of the specific regional sites such as the Western Wall, Dome of Rock and the Church of Nativity (Rowntree et al., 2011). For example, there have been conflicts between Israel versus Palestine for Jerusalem to protect their sacred grounds; and the Israeli-Iranian conflict that would spur trouble even to the US. Earlier in history, the religious trends involved the Judeo-Christian practices of monotheism until after A.D 622 when the advent of Islam saw the region

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    British. Previously separated such that travel was nearly impossible from how strongly the dialects varied (Lamb 307), the Igbo were grouped together under one ruler for decades. Eventually the British left and the unified whole of the Igbo had conflicts with neighboring cultures. A civil war soon followed that brought the downfall of the

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    world with energy would have improved domestic infrastructures and economic development. Unfortunately, this is not the case in Nigeria. Nigeria has suffered since the discovery of oil and is still suffering till this day. Not only has it created conflicts between other nations and Nigeria but it has also divided the country into groups, which has fueled civil wars and tension between the government and the people. This is why the topic is a geopolitical event but before trying to understand how it

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