Adequate wastewater treatment systems are crucial to ensure that wastewater from the oil industry does less damage.
Members of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria protest over crude oil theft.
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Some Niger Delta residents are less concerned about oil-induced hazards and risks, or floods and erosion. They are more worried about a lack of sanitation amenities.
Fuel scarcity in Nigeria causes untold hardship to people and negatively impacts the economy.
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Nigeria’s current political problems are simply too daunting to embark on an honest journey to true federalism at this stage.
Displaced people arrive in Pemba, Mozambique, after fleeing Palma following a brutal attack by Islamist insurgents in March.
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Climate change, pollution and illegal fishing by foreign boats is threatening the livelihoods of millions of people.
Women carry goods across a makeshift bridge in the Ilaje slum in Lagos. Widening inequality is fuelling tensions across Nigeria.
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Protests are raising tensions in Africa’s most populous country, with agitators and federal troops clashing on the streets. But is Nigeria on the brink of another civil war?
Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations and Director of the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS), University of the Witwatersrand