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Oil, the greasy fluid has become a curse to Nigeria with all the trappings ofunderdevelopment in display. The Niger Delta peoples of Nigeria and their environmenthave suffered irretrievably and irredeemably the shockwaves of the curse of oil in all itsramifying dimensions.Since 1914, when Lord Lugard, the soldier of fortune enacted the Colonial Ordinancewhich made oil precincts in the country a British monopoly with ownership rights vestedin the crown and the subsequent 1937 colonial Nigeria Ordinance, which gave ShellD’Arcy exclusive exploration and prospecting rights, the Niger Delta has not known peace.In this power-packed, riveting book, titled The Riddle of the Oil Thief, HRM, KingBubaraye Dakolo, the Ibenanaowei of Ekpetiama Kingdom in Bayelsa State, gives thehistory of oil in Niger...

At The Maroonsquare two-day Discourse on National Development held on the 1st and 2nd of July, 2021 held at the Science Auditorium, Federal College of Education (Tech), Akoka, Yaba, Lagos with the theme; Identity Politics and the National Question in Nigeria sponsored by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Issues of National interest that includes insecurity, agitations by different minority groups within the Nigerian entity and facts with solutions were brought to the fore. Ms. Oliseh Kadishi in her paper discusses the issues surrounding the idea of whether a broken Nigeria will bring progress to the various nationalities in the Nigerian entity, considering the experience of other nations. Ms. Oliseh in her paper concedes to the fact that the history of the creation of the Nigerian state...

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The Riddle of the Oil Thief: The Story of Exploitation and Despoliation of the Niger-Delta

Interrogating the Concept of Restructuring for Progress or Balkanizing to Retrogression; Using Sudan and Yugoslavia as Case Study