Conflict in the Niger Delta

Intrastate conflict has historically been savage and chaotic; nowhere have these descriptors been more fitting than within African civil wars. A legacy of colonialism, ineffective governance, and regional conflict scars the continent, resulting in regular political instability within its territories. The Nigerian civil war of the late 1960s cost the lives of an estimated three-million people- the majority of whom were civilians who succumbed to starvation (NWE 2015). This conflict has traditionally

increased employment, better health care, improved infrastructure and schooling. On the negative side there may be disruption of traditional cultures, environmental degradation, basic commodity price increases, population displacement, land use conflicts and loss of livelihood (Danielson and Lagos, 2001). This is particularly true for the environment. Preliminary evidence suggests that under appropriate framework conditions, foreign investments in mining frequently have higher environmental performance

This Declaration of Biafra Speech as retrieved on 15 August 2008 raises the issue of ‘Self-Determination’. Self-determination is the principle in international law that allows nations the right to freely choose their sovereignty and international status without external interference. The right of nations to self-determination is a cardinal principle in modern international law, binding, as such, on the United Nations as an authoritative interpretation of the Charter’s norms. It states that nations

The demand of commerce, goods, and wealth during the 18th century proliferated the Atlantic Slave Trade. Slave labor arose as the vital machinery that fueled the commercial enterprise of the European nations, making it the primary focus of European slave traders. Therefore, the facile access and opportunity of procuring human labor from the West Coast of Africa allowed this region to obtain a prominent stature among the Europeans. Accelerating Africa’s prominence in the Atlantic Slave Trade were

Peter Maass, the author of “Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil”, has been studying oil, oil rich countries, oil corporations, oil prices, and such for a decent amount of time now. In his novel, he zeroes in on the consequences that humankind faces due to their oil-hungry appetites through the explanation of oil related sins. Each chapter dives into a different sin relating to the disadvantages of living in a world where the demand for oil is so prominent. Some of these sins, for example, are

UNSC (China, Russia, the US, Britain or France) can veto any resolution proposed as they please. As a result of this we have seen much needed resolutions been dropped due to permanent members vetoing due to national interests. In the case of the conflict in Syria, both resolutions proposed by the UNSC were vetoed by Russia and China as they went against their national interests. In this way, the permanent five members are certainly more powerful than the UN. Furthermore, states sovereignty imposes

Declining water resources are one of the causes of the efforts to raise the productivity of the traditional rain-fed farming in West Africa and have affected the growing season and water conservation. With the shortage of water comes the potential for conflict between several African countries. Water resources are declining in West Africa. The annual renewable water resources in West Africa reported by the World Bank in 1994 was about 350 billion cubic meters (1 cubic meter = 35.3 cubic feet). This

John Stuart Mill was born in 1806 and was the eldest son of James Mill and Harriet Barrow. James Mill taught John Greek at the age of three and Latin at age eight. By the age of 14, John had read many Greek and Latin classics. He had studied world history, logic and mathematics and had mastered the basics of economic theory, all of which was part of his father’s plan to make John Stuart Mill a young advocate of the views of the philosophical radicals. By his late teens, Mill spent many hours editing

1.0 INTRODUCTION In recent times, Nigeria has attracted significant global attention as a result of the on going Boko Haram terrorism actions. With Nigeria being one of the most populous country in West Africa there is bound to be religious and political tensions which in turn breeds political violence. The Boko Haram group is the first insurgent group in Nigeria to be classified as a terrorist organisation by the United States of America and it Allies (Akpan, F et al: 2014). From their radical

Information Administration, 2016) Nigeria’s petroleum industry is impacted by regulatory uncertainty, corruption, mismanagement of oil subsidies, oil theft, sabotage, environmental damages, and piracy in offshore West Africa. Instability in the Niger Delta has resulted in significant amounts of