Mediation in Niger Delta Resource Conflict: Assessing the Determinant of a Successful Process

Abegunde, Ola

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“…Existing scholarship on ND discourse can be categorized into linguistic and non-linguistic studies. The latter category, constituting the largest body of works, spans the history/origins of ND struggle (Aboribo & Umukoro, 2008;Ebienfa, 2011), the economic and political implications of the conflicts (Abegunde, 2013;Ibaba & Ikelegbe, 2010), and the initiatives taken to resolve the crisis (Otite & Umukoro, 2011). The former category, which is more relevant to this study, shows that linguistic studies on ND conflicts have yielded research interests largely from pragmatic (e.g., Ayoola, 2008), critical linguistic (e.g., Agbedo, 2012;Ayoola, 2010;Chiluwa, 2011aChiluwa, , 2011bOnonye, 2015Ononye, , 2017, and stylistic (e.g., Chiluwa, 2007;Ononye & Osunbade, 2015) perspectives.…”

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Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

2021

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Media studies on Niger Delta (ND) conflict discourse have largely utilized stylistic, pragmatic, and critical discourse analytical tools in exploring media representation of news actors and ideologies in news texts but have not accommodated such issues as participants’ roles and cognitive relations in the discourse. This paper analyses the contexts of ND conflict news reporting with a view to revealing not only the participant’s role relations involved, but also the lexico-semantic resources they are characterized by. Forty newspaper reports on ND conflicts (20 from four ND-based newspapers— The Tide, New Waves, The Pointer and Pioneer, and 20 from four national newspapers— The Punch, The Guardian, Vanguard and THISDAY), published between 2003 and 2009, were sampled and subjected to discourse analysis, with insights from van Dijk’s context models and aspects of relational semantics. Four types of role were identified, viz. interactional (embracing the participants in conflict), communicative (relating to the production roles), social (involving group membership), and instrumental (dealing with the entities utilized in actualizing specific goals). The cognitive foci of these roles are associated with participants’ goals and beliefs, and these inform the participants’ position and hence role in the conflict events. Linguistically, the interactional and social roles are marked by synonymous and converse lexical items, while the communicative and instrumental roles are indexed by homonymous and antonymous lexical features. The findings corroborate the fact that there is an interaction between participant roles and cognitive relations in the ND conflict events reported in Nigerian newspapers.

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Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

2021

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“…The structural defects in the Nigerian federal system have been attributed to long years of military rule which was dominated by the majority ethnic group particularly the north, which used its position to advance the interest of the group and denied the rest of the federation especially the region that produced the golden eggs the fruit of its labor in terms of resources for its development [36]. Interestingly, several studies [37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47] have pointed to the defective federal system and absence of equity in the disbursement of revenue among the federating units as the cause of agitation for resource control in the Niger Delta. The people of the Niger Delta are dissatisfied with how rents accrue from oil proceeds are distributed among the component units of the federation.…”

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Resource Control and Secessionist Movements in Nigeria: Implications for National Unity and Development

Adeosun

2021

ARJASS

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The geographical entity called Nigeria came into existence on January 1, 1914, when the then Northern and Southern protectorates were merged. Since then, successive governments in the country have been trying to unite the diverse elements that make up the country, all to no avail. From the North and South, there have been called for the dismemberment of the country due to the failure of successive administrations to address the national questions. It is against this backdrop that this paper examines the issues confronting Nigeria’s unity and suggests a way forward. The paper is anchored on elite and frustration-aggression theories and relies on secondary sources of data. The paper contended that injustice, high-handedness, and marginalization of certain sections or regions of the country in the governance of the country accounted for resource control and secessionist movements in the country. The paper suggests justice and inclusiveness of all sections of the country in the affairs of the state, among others.

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“…The people of Niger Delta have persevered through a long torment of socioeconomic and political foul play over the oil asset in their locale. Abegunde (2013) observes that the natural resources, which originally was intended to be a blessing have become a curse with attendant consequences such as oil spillage, unemployment, deprivation, hunger, insecurity, militancy and abject poverty. The problem in the region depicts the relationship between corruption, misappropriation and development.…”

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Amnesty programme and skills training among ex-militants in Nigeria

2020

FWU Journal

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Sequel to the realisation that youths champion violence and militancy in the Niger Delta Region, and the resolution of Umar Musa Yar’Aduas’ government to end insecurity, militancy, and youth restiveness in the region, the amnesty programme was declared, with skills training as itsmajor component.This study examined the relationship between amnesty programmes and skills training among ex-militants in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria. The study used a cross-sectional survey research design. Questionnaires were distributed to 1152 participants purposively selected from communities in Rivers, Delta, and Bayelsa states. Elicited data were analysed using a simple linear statistical tool.The findings of the study revealthat amnesty programmes significantly enabled ex-militant to acquired skills in pipeline installation and repairs. It also showsthat amnesty programmes have apositive impact on the ex-militant acquisition of information technology skills. Further resultindicatesthat there is a significant relationship between amnesty programmes and ex-militant acquisition of automobile servicing skills.The study,therefore,concluded on the need for beneficiaries of the amnesty skills training to be supervised by experts in their field and should be provided with professional advice that would help build their confidence in their chosen career.

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Mediation in Niger Delta Resource Conflict: Assessing the Determinant of a Successful Process

Abstract: The Niger Delta region in Nigeria is

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Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

Participant’s Roles and Cognitive Relations in Niger Delta Conflict News Discourse

Resource Control and Secessionist Movements in Nigeria: Implications for National Unity and Development

Amnesty programme and skills training among ex-militants in Nigeria

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