Contending Issues in the Niger Delta Crisis of Nigeria - Journal of ...

Chapter I: Understanding the Niger Delta Conflict: Matters Arising
In Chapter 8: the Niger delta crisis: issues challenges and prospects
Afinotan and Ojakorotu in detailed systematic manner, using
secondary source, identified and analysed the major challenges posed
by this crisis to the Nigerian State. It concluded that in spite of the
continuing deterioration of the crisis into anarchy, terror and a
revolving criminality, and the militarization of the region by the
Nigerian state, the conflict can still be amicably resolved. It
recommended among other things that the commitment of
government to infrastructural development of the region and
corporate social responsibility would bring enduring peace and
stability.
Chapter 9 discusses the politics and policies of oil deregulation in
Nigeria. The Implications and Policy Suggestions of these politics and
policies are highlighted by Olaopa; Ogundari; Awoleye; and Siyanbola.
The paper, relying on secondary data only, seeks to answer the
question of whether petroleum product deregulation will serve as a
panacea to the perennial problem of underutilization of the installed
capacity of refineries and shortages in Nigeria. They posit that the
necessary infrastructure and social framework to support
deregulation policy were not put in place. Consequently, the policy
was unable to successfully achieve its objectives. For the deregulation
policy to be effective therefore, the study recommended, among
others, that the country needs to undertake nationalistic policies
driven by the developmental needs of the overall Nigerian economy
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