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YOUTH UNREST IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION: AN INSIGHT INTO THE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS

Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences

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Title YOUTH UNREST IN THE NIGER DELTA REGION: AN INSIGHT INTO THE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS
 
Creator Lambert Uyi (Ph.D), EDIGIN
 
Description The Niger Delta region constitutes a sizeable population of such states as Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Rivers, Edo and the Cross Rivers states respectively. This is where the bulk of the nation’s oil wealth is derived. In spite of this, the region has had to deal with a long period of environmental degradation, military attacks and intimidations, extortions by the multinational oil companies aided by the state apparatus. All these led to the Kaiama Declaration of December 11, 1998 where the youth of the area sought for a full and total control of the proceeds of the resources from the region. This degenerated into an open conflict between the youth and the federal government resulting in mass killings, maiming, destruction of properties and dehumanization of an unimaginable proportion. This paper examines the political, economic, environmental and other issues arising form the oil exploratory activities of the multinational companies and the attendant restiveness of the youth in the region and suggests possible and enduring solution to the crisis.
 
Publisher Covenant University
 
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Date 2016-02-25
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/30
 
Source Covenant Journal of Business and Social Sciences; June 2013 Volume 5, No.1
2334-5708
2006-0300
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://journals.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/index.php/cjbss/article/view/30/26
 
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