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The current conflict in the Niger Delta first arose in the early 1990s over tensions between foreign oil corporations and a number of the Niger Delta's minority ethnic groups who feel they are being exploited, particularly the Ogoni and the Ijaw.
The Niger Delta Basin is an extensional rift basin where rifting occurred from the Late Jurassic to the Late Cretaceous.Cretaceous fracture zones, expressed as trenches and ridges, control the tectonic framework of the delta and separate the margin into individual sub-basins, which form the boundary faults of the Cretaceous Benue-Abakaliki trough.
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located within nine coastal southern Nigerian states, which include: all six states from the South South geopolitical zone, one state ( Ondo ) from South West geopolitical zone and two states ( Abia and Imo ...
The UN says at least 13 million barrels - or 1.5 million tonnes - of crude oil have been spilled since 1958 in at least 7,000 incidents in the Niger Delta region. The spills have left many ...
The 2016 Niger Delta conflict is an ongoing conflict around the Niger Delta region of Nigeria in a bid for the secession of the region, which was a part of the breakaway state of Biafra. [5] It follows on-and-off conflict in the Christian-dominated southern Niger Delta in the preceding years, as well as an insurgency in the Muslim-dominated ...
2016 Niger Delta conflict. Part of the Conflict in the Niger Delta Nigeria: Niger Delta Separatists: Adaka Boro Avengers Asawana Deadly Force of Niger Delta Niger Delta Avengers Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate Niger Delta Justice Defence Group Niger Delta Volunteers Niger Delta Red Squad Niger Delta Revolutionary Crusaders Reformed Egbesu ...
In 1956, four years before Nigerian Independence, Royal Dutch/Shell, in collaboration with the British government, found a commercially viable oil field on the Niger Delta and began oil production in 1958. In a 15-year period from 1976 to 1991 there were reportedly 2,976 oil spills of about 2.1 million barrels of oil in Ogoniland, accounting ...
Under the control of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta; Under the control of the Islamic State's West Africa Province; Under the control of the Indigenous People of Biafra; Under the control of Bello Turji; Under the control of Dogo Gide; Contested Nigerian government–Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta