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Nigeria Oil Industry and the Niger Delta Conflicts (1956–2015)

Nigeria Oil Industry and the Niger Delta Conflicts (1956–2015)

  2. Nigeria ships its first crude oil exports

    Labels: Nigeria, crude exports, Niger Delta

  3. Petroleum Act centralizes control of oil resources

    Labels: Petroleum Act, Federal Government, oil licensing

  4. Nigerian Civil War ends amid strategic oil importance

    Labels: Nigerian Civil, Biafra, oil-producing areas

  5. Nigeria joins OPEC as oil revenue grows

    Labels: OPEC, Nigeria, oil exports

  6. NNPC is formed to expand state role

    Labels: NNPC, Nigerian government, state oil

  8. Ogoni Bill of Rights fuels nonviolent oil protests

    Labels: MOSOP, Ogoni Bill, Ogoni people

  9. Ken Saro-Wiwa and the “Ogoni Nine” executed

    Labels: Ken Saro, Ogoni Nine, military government

  10. Kaiama Declaration escalates Ijaw demands for “resource control”

    Labels: Ijaw Youth, Kaiama Declaration, Ijaw

  11. Federal troops destroy Odi after police killings

    Labels: Odi, federal troops, police killings

  12. NDDC created to address Niger Delta development

    Labels: NDDC, Niger Delta, federal agency

  13. MEND emerges and drives a new wave of militant attacks

    Labels: MEND, militant group, Niger Delta

  14. Niger Delta Ministry announced to coordinate regional response

    Labels: Niger Delta, federal ministry, Yar'Adua

  15. UNEP publishes landmark Ogoniland pollution assessment

    Labels: UNEP, Ogoniland, pollution assessment

  16. 2015 ends with conflicts unresolved but cleanup agenda formalized

    Labels: cleanup agenda, Niger Delta, oil theft