EFFECTS OF OIL RESOURCE EXPLORATION ON NIGERIAN POLITICAL STABILITY IN OGONILAND, RIVERS STATE, NIGERIA

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2018-10-21

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Department of Environmental Resource Management, Nasarawa State University, Keffi.

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This research work is centered on critical analysis of the manner in which oil exploitation is conducted in Ogonilandin Nigerian Niger Delta regions. It also focuses on how the region‟s environment is contaminated via the activities of oil exploitation, resulting to massive devastation and destruction of her natural habitats. Consequently, the socio-economic activities of the region have been retarded, slowed and in some cases completely destroyed causing hardship to its inhabitants. The inability of the Federal government to provide a sustainable development agenda for the region; the complicity of the Multinational oil companies (MNOCs) to act as responsible corporate entity adopting the highest, globally acceptable environmental standards; the often non-sensitivity of state governments to the of needs of local inhabitants all conspired to rob the region of the much needed human and infrastructural development as anti-dote to the bastardized environment in Ogoniland. The methodological approach to this research work was based on content analysis of literature on available textbooks, journals, magazines, newspapers, internet sources, articles and other unpublished works by professionals. Against this backdrop of the research, it came to bear the fact that oil exploitation in Ogoniland overtime has been wrongly fashioned and confirm the position of the region being deprived, alienated, marginalized and neglected. Also ascertained was the justification of the crises condition of the people of Ogoniland as a result of idleness and poverty amidst the oil wealth. Despite the inadequacies in the development relations between the oil Host region and the Federal government/MNOCs, all hopes are not lost. Sustainable development could still be attained in the region when environmental protection laws alongside favourable oil industry and land tenure ship/derivation principles are stringently put in place in the Nigerian polity. Also significant in the findings is the machinery of governance to treat Ogoniland issues with probity, accountability and service to the people.

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A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT OF THE SCHOOL OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIES OF NASARAWA STATE UNIVERSITY, KEFFI.