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130 relations: Abayomi Olonisakin, Abia State, Africa, Agriculture, Akwa Ibom State, Alex Sabundu Badeh, Alexander Ogomudia, Amnesty International, Ateke Tom, Bayelsa State, Boko Haram insurgency, Bonny, Rivers, Chevron Corporation, Cocoa bean, Commonwealth of Nations, Corruption, Cotton, Cross River State, Curfew, Delta State, Democracy, Direct action, Drilling and Killing, Due process, Ebikabowei Victor-Ben, Edo State, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, Escravos GTL, Ethnic group, European Union, Export, Extraction of petroleum, Exxon Valdez, ExxonMobil, Federal government of Nigeria, Fraternity, Goodluck Jonathan, Government Ekpemupolo, Greenpeace, Gross domestic product, Guaicaramo Dam, Hanging, Henry Okah, Hostage, Human rights, Human rights in Nigeria, Ijaw people, Ijaw Youth Council, Imo State, Incitement, ..., Insurgency, Internally displaced person, International sanctions, Isoko region, Kaiama Declaration, Ken Saro-Wiwa, List of countries by oil exports, List of countries by oil production, List of oil exploration and production companies, List of ongoing armed conflicts, Martin Luther Agwai, Milieudefensie, Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, Muhammadu Buhari, Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, Multinational corporation, National Geographic, Natural rubber, Niger Delta, Niger Delta Avengers, Niger Delta Development Commission, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate, Niger Delta Liberation Front, Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force, Niger Delta Vigilante, Nigeria, Nigerian Armed Forces, Nigerian Civil War, Nigerian energy supply crisis, Nigerian general election, 2015, Nigerian Mobile Police, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Nigerian Navy, Nonviolence, Odi massacre, Ogoni people, Oil well, Ola Ibrahim, Olusegun Obasanjo, Oluseyi Petinrin, Ondo State, Otu Jeremi, Owoye Andrew Azazi, Pardon, Paul Dike, Peanut, Peter Odili, Petroleum, Petroleum industry, Petroleum politics, Photosynthesis, Pipeline transport, Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea, Platform (art group), Port Harcourt, Poverty, President of Nigeria, Rainforest, Rape, Rivers State, Royal Dutch Shell, Royalty payment, Sani Abacha, Sebastian Junger, Shell Nigeria, Somalia, Terrorism, The Economist, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, United Kingdom, United States, Urbanization, Vanity Fair (magazine), Warri, Warri Crisis, West Africa, Western culture, Yenagoa, Zed Books. Expand index (80 more) »
Abayomi Olonisakin
General Abayomi Gabriel Olonisakin is the current Nigerian Chief of Defence Staff appointed to the position on July 13, 2015 by President Muhammadu Buhari.
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Abia State
Abia is a state in the south eastern part of Nigeria.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Akwa Ibom State
Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria.
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Alex Sabundu Badeh
Alex Sabundu Badeh (born January 10, 1957) is a retired four star flag officer of the Nigerian Air force who served as the 18th Chief of Air Staff (October 4, 2012 – January 16, 2014) and the 15th Chief of Defence Staff of the armed forces of Nigeria (January 16, 2014 to July 13, 2015).
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Alexander Ogomudia
General Alexander Odeareduo Ogomudia (Rtd) CFR DSS fwc psc(+) MSc FNSE (born 29 December 1949 in Uzere, Isoko South, Delta State) is a retired Nigerian army officer who served as Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
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Ateke Tom
Ateke Tom is the leader of the Niger Delta Vigilante, an ethnic Ijaw militia in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Bayelsa State
Bayelsa is a state in southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region, between Delta State and Rivers State.
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Boko Haram insurgency
The Boko Haram insurgency began in 2009, when the jihadist rebel group Boko Haram started an armed rebellion against the government of Nigeria.
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Bonny, Rivers
Bonny (or Ubani) is an island town and a Local Government Area in Rivers State in southern Nigeria, on the Bight of Bonny.
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Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation.
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Cocoa bean
The cocoa bean, also called cacao bean, cocoa, and cacao, is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, from which cocoa solids and, because of the seed's fat, cocoa butter can be extracted.
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Commonwealth of Nations
The Commonwealth of Nations, often known as simply the Commonwealth, is an intergovernmental organisation of 53 member states that are mostly former territories of the British Empire.
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Corruption
Corruption is a form of dishonesty undertaken by a person entrusted with a position of authority, often to acquire personal benefit.
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Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae.
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Cross River State
Cross River is a state in South South Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east.
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Curfew
A curfew is an order specifying a time during which certain regulations apply.
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Delta State
Delta or Delta State is an oil and agricultural producing state of Nigeria, situated in the region known as the South-South geo-political zone with a population of 4,112,445 (males: 2,069,309; females: 2,043,136).
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Democracy
Democracy (δημοκρατία dēmokraa thetía, literally "rule by people"), in modern usage, has three senses all for a system of government where the citizens exercise power by voting.
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Direct action
Direct action occurs when a group takes an action which is intended to reveal an existing problem, highlight an alternative, or demonstrate a possible solution to a social issue.
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Drilling and Killing
Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship is an audio documentary produced by Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill, mixed and engineered by Dred Scott Keyes.
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Due process
Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person.
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Ebikabowei Victor-Ben
Ebikabowei "Boyloaf" Victor-Ben (born 1971) is former commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
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Edo State
Edo is a state in Nigeria.
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Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu
Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (born December 18, 1956) is the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources and the immediate past Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation married to Elizabeth Kachikwu.
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Escravos GTL
Escravos GTL is a gas to liquids (GTL) project based in Escravos region, Nigeria.
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Ethnic group
An ethnic group, or an ethnicity, is a category of people who identify with each other based on similarities such as common ancestry, language, history, society, culture or nation.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Export
The term export means sending of goods or services produced in one country to another country.
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Extraction of petroleum
The extraction of petroleum is the process by which usable petroleum is drawn out from beneath the earth's surface location.
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Exxon Valdez
Oriental Nicety, formerly Exxon Valdez, Exxon Mediterranean, SeaRiver Mediterranean, S/R Mediterranean, Mediterranean, and Dong Fang Ocean, was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince William Sound spilling hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude oil in Alaska.
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ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas.
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Federal government of Nigeria
The Federal Government of Nigeria is the federal government for the Federal Republic of Nigeria, a federation in West Africa, composed of 36 states, who share sovereignty with the federal government and 1 federal territory administered solely by the federal government.
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Fraternity
A fraternity (from Latin frater: "brother"; "brotherhood"), fraternal order or fraternal organization is an organization, a society or a club of men associated together for various religious or secular aims.
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Goodluck Jonathan
Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan (born 20 November 1957)Lawson Heyford,, The Source (Lagos), 11 December 2006.
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Government Ekpemupolo
Government Ekpemupolo ("Tompolo")(born 1971) is a Nigerian militant commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.
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Greenpeace
Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 39 countries and with an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all final goods and services produced in a period (quarterly or yearly) of time.
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Guaicaramo Dam
The Guaicaramo Dam is a planned hydroelectric dam on the Upia River, in Casanare, Colombia.
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Hanging
Hanging is the suspension of a person by a noose or ligature around the neck.
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Henry Okah
Henry Okah (born 1965, Lagos State, Nigeria) is the assumed Nigerian guerrilla leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND); a title he denies.
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Hostage
A hostage is a person or entity which is held by one of two belligerent parties to the other or seized as security for the carrying out of an agreement, or as a preventive measure against war.
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Human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, December 13, 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,, Retrieved August 14, 2014 that describe certain standards of human behaviour and are regularly protected as natural and legal rights in municipal and international law.
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Human rights in Nigeria
Human rights in Nigeria are protected under the most current constitution of 1999.
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Ijaw people
Ijaw people (also known by the subgroups "Ijo" or "Izon") are a collection of peoples indigenous to the Niger Delta in Nigeria, inhabiting regions of the states of Bayelsa, Delta, Ondo, Akwa Ibom and Rivers.
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Ijaw Youth Council
Ijaw Youth Council (also indefinite as "Ijaw youths") is a civil rights organization in Nigeria, founded in 1998, which supports the interests of the Ijaw ethnic group of the Niger Delta.
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Imo State
Imo is one of the 36 states of Nigeria and lies in the South East of Nigeria.
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Incitement
In criminal law, incitement is the encouragement of another person to commit a crime.
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Insurgency
An insurgency is a rebellion against authority (for example, an authority recognized as such by the United Nations) when those taking part in the rebellion are not recognized as belligerents (lawful combatants).
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Internally displaced person
An internally displaced person (IDP) is someone who is forced to flee his or her home but who remains within his or her country's borders.
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International sanctions
International sanctions are political and economic decisions that are part of diplomatic efforts by countries, multilateral or regional organizations against states or organizations either to protect national security interests, or to protect international law, and defend against threats to international peace and security.
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Isoko region
Isoko is a region of Delta State in southern Nigeria and is inhabited by an ethnic group of the same name, the Isoko people.
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Kaiama Declaration
On December 11, 1998, 5,000 Ijaw people representing over 40 Ijaw clans, chose the town of Kaiama to articulate their aspirations for the Ijaw people, and to demand an end to 40 years of environmental damage and underdevelopment in the region.
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Ken Saro-Wiwa
Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.
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List of countries by oil exports
This is a list of oil-producing countries by oil exports based on The World Factbook and other Sources.
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List of countries by oil production
This is a list of countries by oil production, as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2016, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.
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List of oil exploration and production companies
The following is a list of notable companies in the petroleum industry that are engaged in petroleum exploration and production.
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List of ongoing armed conflicts
The following is a list of ongoing armed conflicts that are taking place around the world and continue to result in violence.
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Martin Luther Agwai
General Martin Luther Agwai CFR GSS psc(+) fwc is a retired Nigerian army officer who served as Chief of Defence Staff and Chief of Army Staff.
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Milieudefensie
Milieudefensie (Dutch for "environmental defense") is a Dutch environmental organisation, founded on 6 January 1971, by a group of scientists in response to a report by the Club of Rome.
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Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) is one of the largest militant groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People
The Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People, also known as (MOSOP), is a mass‐based social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta.
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Muhammadu Buhari
Muhammadu Buhari is the President of Nigeria, in office since 2015.
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Mujahid Dokubo-Asari
Dokubo-Asari (born 1964), formerly Melford Dokubo Goodhead Jr. and typically referred to simply as Asari, is a major political figure of the Ijaw ethnic group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Multinational corporation
A multinational corporation (MNC) or worldwide enterprise is a corporate organization that owns or controls production of goods or services in at least one country other than its home country.
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly the National Geographic Magazine and branded also as NAT GEO or) is the official magazine of the National Geographic Society.
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Natural rubber
Natural rubber, also called India rubber or caoutchouc, as initially produced, consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene, with minor impurities of other organic compounds, plus water.
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Niger Delta
The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.
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Niger Delta Avengers
The Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta.
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Niger Delta Development Commission
The Niger Delta Development Commission is a federal government agency established by Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo in the year 2000 with the sole mandate of developing the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate
The Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate (NDGJM) is a militant group operating in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
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Niger Delta Liberation Front
The Niger Delta Liberation Front (NDLF) is a militant group in Nigeria's Niger Delta.
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Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force
The Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force is one of the largest armed groups in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria and is composed primarily of members of the region's largest ethnic group, the Ijaw.
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Niger Delta Vigilante
The Niger Delta Vigilante (abbreviated NDV) is an armed militia group in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.
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Nigerian Armed Forces
The Nigerian Armed Forces are the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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Nigerian Civil War
The Nigerian Civil War, commonly known as the Biafran War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra.
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Nigerian energy supply crisis
The Nigerian energy supply crisis refers to the ongoing failure of the Nigerian power sector to provide adequate electricity supply to domestic households and industrial producers despite a rapidly growing economy, some of the world's largest deposits of coal, oil and gas and the country's status as Africa's largest oil producer.
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Nigerian general election, 2015
General elections were held in Nigeria on 28 and 29 March 2015, the fifth quadrennial election to be held since the end of military rule in 1999.
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Nigerian Mobile Police
The Nigerian Mobile Police (MOPOL) force is the paramilitary arm of the Nigeria Police Force and operate under orders from the Nigerian federal government.
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Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is the oil corporation through which the federal government of Nigeria regulates and participates in the country's petroleum industry.
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Nigerian Navy
The Nigerian Navy (NN) is a branch of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
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Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.
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Odi massacre
The Odi massacre was an attack carried out on November 20, 1999, by the Nigerian military on the predominantly Ijaw town of Odi in Bayelsa State.
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Ogoni people
The Ogoni Kingdom (also known as the Ogonis) are one of the many indigenous peoples in the region of southeast Nigeria.
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Oil well
An oil well is a boring in the Earth that is designed to bring petroleum oil hydrocarbons to the surface.
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Ola Ibrahim
Ola Sa'ad Ibrahim (born 15 June 1955) is a retired Nigerian Navy admiral and former Chief of the Defence Staff of the Nigerian Armed Forces.
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Olusegun Obasanjo
Chief Olusegun Mathew Okikiola Aremu Obasanjo, GCFR, Ph.D. (Olúṣẹ́gun Ọbásanjọ́; born 5 May 1937) is a former Nigerian Army general who was President of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.
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Oluseyi Petinrin
Air Chief Marshal Oluseyi Petinrin (born 19 January 1955) is a senior Nigerian Air Force officer and former Chief of the Defence Staff.
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Ondo State
Ondo or Ondo State is a state in Nigeria created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State.
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Otu Jeremi
Otu-Jeremi is a village in Ughelli South LGA of Delta State, Nigeria.
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Owoye Andrew Azazi
General Owoye Andrew Azazi (rtd) (1 February 1952 – 15 December 2012) was a senior Nigerian security officer who served as National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan, was Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of Nigeria, and Chief of Army Staff (COAS).
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Pardon
A pardon is a government decision to allow a person to be absolved of guilt for an alleged crime or other legal offense, as if the act never occurred.
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Paul Dike
Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike was the Nigerian Air Force's Chief of the Air Staff from 2006 to 2008.
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Peanut
The peanut, also known as the groundnut or the goober and taxonomically classified as Arachis hypogaea, is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible seeds.
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Peter Odili
Peter Otunuya Odili (born 15 August 1948) was the third Governor of Rivers State in Nigeria from 29 May 1999 to 29 May 2007.
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Petroleum
Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.
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Petroleum industry
The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products.
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Petroleum politics
Petroleum politics have been an increasingly important aspect of diplomacy since the rise of the petroleum industry in the Middle East in the early 20th century.
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Photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities (energy transformation).
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Pipeline transport
Pipeline transport is the transportation of goods or material through a pipe.
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Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea
Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea affects a number of countries in West Africa as well as the wider international community.
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Platform (art group)
Platform London is an interdisciplinary London-based art and campaigning collective founded in 1983 that creates projects with social justice and environmental justice themes.
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Port Harcourt
Port Harcourt (Ikwerre: Ígúọ́cha; Pidgin: Po-ta-kot) is the capital and largest city of Rivers State, Nigeria.
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Poverty
Poverty is the scarcity or the lack of a certain (variant) amount of material possessions or money.
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President of Nigeria
The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is the head of state and head of the national executive of Nigeria.
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Rainforest
Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with annual rainfall in the case of tropical rainforests between, and definitions varying by region for temperate rainforests.
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Rape
Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent.
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Rivers State
Rivers State, also known simply as Rivers, is one of the 36 states of Nigeria.
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Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.
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Royalty payment
A royalty is a payment made by one party, the licensee or franchisee to another that owns a particular asset, the licensor or franchisor for the right to ongoing use of that asset.
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Sani Abacha
Sani Abacha (20 September 1943 – 8 June 1998) was a Nigerian Army officer and politician who served as the ''de facto'' President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998.
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Sebastian Junger
Sebastian Junger (born January 17, 1962) is an American journalist, author and filmmaker famous for the best-selling book The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea (1997), his award-winning chronicle of the war in Afghanistan in the documentary films Restrepo (2010) and Korengal (2014), and his book War (2010).
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Shell Nigeria
Shell Nigeria is the common name for Royal Dutch Shell's Nigerian operations carried out through four subsidiaries—primarily Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC).
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Somalia
Somalia (Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the.
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Terrorism
Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of people; or fear to achieve a financial, political, religious or ideological aim.
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The Economist
The Economist is an English-language weekly magazine-format newspaper owned by the Economist Group and edited at offices in London.
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (16 August 19515 May 2010) was the 13th president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change.
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Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.
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Warri
The city of Warri is an oil hub in South-South Nigeria and houses an annex of the Delta State Government House.
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Warri Crisis
The Warri Crisis was a series of riots and clashes between the Ijaw and the Itsekiri (and to a lesser extent, Urhobo) ethnic groups centered on the city of Warri in Delta State, Nigeria between March and May, 1997.
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West Africa
West Africa, also called Western Africa and the West of Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa.
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Western culture
Western culture, sometimes equated with Western civilization, Occidental culture, the Western world, Western society, European civilization,is a term used very broadly to refer to a heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems and specific artifacts and technologies that have some origin or association with Europe.
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Yenagoa
Yenagoa is a Local Government Area in Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
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Zed Books
Zed Books is an independent non-fiction publishing company based in London, UK.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_in_the_Niger_Delta
