• The Niger Delta, as now defined officially by the Nigerian government, extends over 70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi) and makes up 7.5% of Nigeria's land mass.
  • The Niger Delta is among the 10 most important wetland and coastal marine ecosystems in the world. ... in the Niger Delta is 40, 10 years below Nigeria’s average.
  • The Niger Delta, as now defined officially by the Nigerian government, extends over about 70,000 km2 (27,000 sq mi) and makes up 7.5% of Nigeria's land mass.
  • The delta consists of the middle course of the Niger River, between the bifurcated Niger and its tributary the Bani, which from here run north towards the desert.
  • Niger Delta As Nigeria began to prepare for independence, the search for oil began in the Delta in the 1950s and by 1956 it was discovered in commercial quantities.
  • To facilitate the rapid & sustainable development of the Niger Delta into a region that is economically prosperous.
  • Lagos State recently join the list of commercial oil-producing states in Nigeria, which will make them part of the List of Niger Delta States in Nigeria.
  • We refuse to identify as Nigerians in its present pseudo federalism that marginalize the people of the Niger Delta region from which the country survives.
  • The Ministry of Niger Delta Development was created to promote and coordinate policies for the development of peace and security of the Niger Delta region.
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  • Mismanagement of the oil and gas industry over decades in the Niger Delta has caused huge amounts of land, water, and air pollution.
  • Bayelsa State Niger Delta Today Niger Delta Today - July 8, 2024.
  • The Niger Delta Basin contains up to 12 km of Upper Cretaceous to Quaternary clastics deposited in an overall upward-coarsening regressive deltaic sequence.