- The National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA) recorded 3,203 oil spills in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria between 2006 and 2010.
- Environmental degradation of Nigeria’s Niger Delta region is causing poverty as well as food insecurity, increased crime and conflict.
- Other articles where Niger Delta is discussed: western Africa: Pre-European slave trading: …exported—as has been seen—from the Niger delta region.
- A group known as the Niger Delta Avengers attacked a Chevron facility in an oil-rich region of Nigeria, reviving fears of an insurgency in the area.
- The Niger Delta is the delta of the Niger River sitting directly on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean in Nigeria.
- 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.
- Read how 3500 activists around the world are taking on Shell and other oil giants demanding that companies clean up oil spills in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
- NGOs Lead Effort to Strengthen Resilience in Niger Delta Against Future Crises. FG, IFAD Launch LIFE-ND Project for Agricultural Development in Niger Delta.
- When a civilian government was reinstated in Nigeria in 1999, many of those living in the Niger Delta region, the source of Nigeria’s oil wealth, hoped that a...