Conflict Management in the Niger Delta

Student: David Ayomikun Ayandokun (Project, 2025)
Department of International Relations
Oduduwa University, Ipetumodu, Osun State


Abstract

This study examines the conflict in Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The region is blessed with oil and mineral resources that have continued to draw attention in the oil industry since the discovery of oil in commercial quantity in the mid 1950's. The exclusion of the area from the benefits of the oil appears to have fueled the crisis of agitation by the people of the region. The project work takes as its baseline, the examination of the Niger Delta people and pre-modern conflict era, oil exploration and conflict in the region, the nature of the crisis and its dimension. The effort at resolving the crisis form military option to amnesty programme. A critical look at post-amnesty programme

Keywords
Confllict Management Niger Delta