… : Contending issues in governance and democracy at the local government level in Nigeria:
some reflections on the Niger Delta … the Niger Delta crisis in Nigeria: Impacts and challenges …

… Critical reflections on contending issues of the conflict and perspectives of the local people
Contending issues underpinning oil conflict in Nigeria's Niger Delta can be reduced to a …

… focus on the contending issues in the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria. Chapter 2 is on the
Political Economy of fossil fuel in Nigeria where Lere Amusan posits that Nigeria’s overreliance …

… the forced nature of its union make Nigeria a true state-nation. … now taken an expression in
the form of the Niger Delta crisis. … Nigerian state contributed to the conflict in the Niger Delta in …

… struggle between contending groups in … Niger Delta and in Nigeria as a whole, they converge
in ways that make them mutually reinforcing for bringing about those peaceful conditions …

… problem. The second chapter will be a review of literature on the Nigerian media and the Niger
Delta … Contending governments had significant control over media coverage in conflicts of …

… gas from the Niger Delta, and the political and environmental conditions put in … Niger Delta
is tapped and distributed, determine the contemporary history of instability in the Niger Delta …

… the responses from the contending stakeholders in the Nigerian oil sector. … Niger Delta,
which the Nigerian state has resisted very fiercely – but we will come back to this. The Niger Delta …

… This is very much the case in Nigeria especially in her Niger Delta region where the bulk of
her oil is explored and exploited. Nigeria is basically a monocultural economy (Orubu, 2002) …

… This paper explores the complex roots and dimensions of the Niger Delta conflict which has
escalated from ethnic minority protests against the federal Nigerian State-Oil Multinationals’ …