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"Tings Dey Happen," a show about oil politics in Nigeria | Salon
For American theatergoers, the show is an immersion in a foreign reality. For Nigerians, it's a trip home. On that Saturday night in October with the big Nigerian contingent, the house rocked with the energy of a poetry slam.
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Niger Delta bears brunt after 50 years of oil spills - Africa, World - Independent.co.uk
Up to 1.5 million tons of oil, 50 times the pollution unleashed in the Exxon Valdez tanker disaster, has been spilt in the ecologically precious Niger Delta over the past 50 years,
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Ogoni: A Deadline Slips and the Flaring Continues
Gas flaring in the Niger Delta continues despite a 1 January 2008 moratorium, but can the environment stands any more delays?
Below is an article written by Sam Olukoya and published by Terraviva Africa:
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BBC NEWS | Africa | Oil firms ordered to Niger Delta
Nigeria's government has ordered all oil firms that fled the Niger Delta in the wake of militant attacks to return to the area or cease operations.
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World Bank to Assist N'delta
During a recent visit to Nigeria, World Bank Vice President for the Africa Region Oby Ezekwesili participated in meeting with the governors of Delta, Akwa Ibom, Bayelsa states and development partners where she expressed the readiness of the Bank to assis
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FT.com / Reports - Chinese go where western firms fear to tread
China’s deal-making in Africa has risen dramatically in a few years, a fact that has driven up competition for assets. What is more, it is not just China that has been seduced by Africa’s oil wealth, but other operators from elsewhere in Asia. More re
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Mangrove destruction in Niger Delta
An important coastal plant.
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Changing the attitude of oil companies in Niger Delta
Article ignores that oil companies like Shell have been intimately involved with corrupt governments in depriving Niger Delta people of their basic rights.
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Nigeria: Gas Flaring Continues in Defiance of Government Order - AfricanLoft
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Nigeria: UN to Launch Oil Contamination Assessment in Southern Region
The United Nations environment and development agencies are joining forces to launch a comprehensive assessment of oil contamination in the Ogoni region of the Niger Delta as part of a broader Nigerian Government-led peace and reconciliation programme.
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Oil, Environment and Crisis Economics
Three items of particular interest. First, multinational corporations are not separate from less-industrialised states. They are symbiotic. Second, resources need not be a 'curse'. It is how they are used. Third, multinational corporations sometimes
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Niger Delta - Oil Companies And Integrity in Stakeholding
Petroleum is not the curse. It's the greedy and powerful exploiters of petroleum that are the problem.
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Pressure to end gas Flaring in Nigeria
Gas flaring is a major indicator of how much Shell is being pressured to change its destructive ways in Nigeria.
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