An overview of the essay on conflict politics in the Niger Delta
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY. The peace and conflict landscape in the Niger Delta was relatively stable by comparison. The deadly violence decreased. 62 fatalities. The resource-based ethnic conflict, such as the Niger Delta conflict, has unprecedented economic and development implications. In the Niger Delta, ethnic prejudice, marginalization, discrimination and cronyism have caused subsistence poverty. To alleviate poverty, this article suggested that the government should develop the Niger, Abstract. The main concern of the Nigerian state in managing the oil conflict in the Niger Delta was to maximize oil revenues. What is probably most confusing about this strategy is the developing tendency to distort and treat every conflict in the Niger Delta, including some episodic 'epi-oil' conflicts fueled or orchestrated by the Niger Delta region of South Southern Nigeria, in west Africa. Coast is densely populated. The region, which contains significant reserves of crude oil and natural gas, has been given the nickname. An overview of conflicts, oil management and resistance Militancy in the Niger Delta Oil and politics are inextricably linked in Nigeria. Oil wealth often influences and shapes the structure of Nigeria