Casualisation and Conflict in the Niger Delta: Nigerian Oil Workers' Unions Between Companies and Communities

Houeland, Camilla

doi:10.3917/rtm.224.0025

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“…According to such vulnerabilities have led to violent behaviours at sea, as those who are previously engaged in the fishing sector look for alternative sources of livelihood, including engaging in illegal activities. Ali's submission is true for many communities in the Niger Delta where there are limited opportunities for subsistence outside fishing and farming, which is why the option of illegal activity is almost always the only alternative (Houeland, 2015;Odusote, 2016;Okafor-Yarwood, 2018).…”

Section: Pipeline Vandalisation/ Fuel Smugglingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Okafor‐Yarwood

2020

African Security

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Analyses of [maritime] security issues have long focused on threats to the nation-state, thereby promulgating traditional state-centric security policies and practices. The preceding claim is valid for maritime security responses on the African continent, where piracy/armed robbery at sea has been met with robust regional and international interventions, and resulted in two UN resolutions and regional policies. Focusing primarily on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, this paper seeks to highlight the centrality of human security issues to national security by providing evidence of the cyclical relationship between the two; anything that undermines human security, explicitly threatens national security. Utilising evidence from Nigeria, the paper critiques the tendency to ignore the individual as the referent object of security.

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Section: Pipeline Vandalisation/ Fuel Smugglingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Okafor‐Yarwood

2020

African Security

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“…Ethnicity becomes instrumental for mobilization to access power and resources. This fact is corroborated by Eberlein (2006) cited in Houeland (2015) that ethnicity is a major tool, serving as the organizing principle around which, the claims to resources sovereignty in the Niger Delta is coordinated.…”

Section: Community-based Social Movements and Militancy In The Oil Producing Regionmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…The white-collar workers on the other hand established the Petroleum and Natural Gas Worker, Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN). They equally maintain approximately 20,000 members, with about 120 branches spread across the oil firms in Nigeria (Houeland, 2015). These workers are constraint from forging a common solidarity front by the capital, but are discipline in a way that each, leans toward different ideological orientation.…”

Section: The Oil Workers Union and The Struggle For Improved Social And Economic Condition In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…NUPENG nurtures and expresses a more radical orientation and are much more readily tuned to resisting the capital and the state for its interest primarily and the general public to an extent. PENGASSAN are more relates social Democrats, leaning toward conservatism, less volatile but effective in their own right (Houeland, 2015).…”

Section: The Oil Workers Union and The Struggle For Improved Social And Economic Condition In Nigeriamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

Miapyen

Bozkurt

2020

Sage Open

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This research discusses the environmental pollution by the capital in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria and identifies two historical agents that have the potential to harmonize their social power through a common language that may create a new social and political agency. We argue that the working class and the community-based social movements are necessary but not sufficient agents of transformation in the Nigerian oil-dependent capitalist economy. The cooperation between the global and local sites of resistance is an imperative: a synergy and deliberate action by the conglomerate of trade unions, community-based social movements, nongovernmental organizations, local and global activists, nurtures the potential to transform the capitalist domination, exploitation, and expropriation in Nigeria. Using secondary literature sources, we re-visit the conversation on the role of capital and the pollution of environment in Nigeria through the concept of “Movement of Movements”.

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“…For example, while local content law in Nigeria aims to reduce the proportion of expatriates in the senior management of companies, there is contention about the lack of enforcement of the law and the corrupt tendencies of state agencies. 118 The law should go further. A larger percentage of senior executives of foreign businesses operating in Nigeria must constitute Nigerians.…”

Section: Legal and Policy Objectives Of Local Content In Nigeria Loca...mentioning

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Local Content Requirements in Nigeria's Extractive Sector and the Implications for Sustainable Development

Abe

2021

J. Afr. law

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This article examines the framework of Nigeria's local content laws and policy, and the implications for sustainable development. The legislation is geared towards safeguarding local productivity and aiding the progressive aspirations of Nigeria's citizens. While commendable in principle, there have been questions about policy articulation, implementation and enforcement mechanisms, especially with regard to the Sustainable Development Goals. The article examines the local content legislation in Nigeria, and how policies have shaped the community-corporate nexus. This exposes the challenges facing extractive resource governance in a jurisdiction such as Nigeria and the discourses that have permeated legal scholarship on the practical deference to local content by non-state actors. It considers that well designed and implemented local content requirements are catalysts for structural development. To achieve sustainable development of its extractive sector, Nigeria requires state-led determination to stimulate economic growth and development. The article argues for continuous consultation as a bedrock for meaningful engagement.

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Casualisation and Conflict in the Niger Delta: Nigerian Oil Workers' Unions Between Companies and Communities

Cited by 16 publications

References 7 publications

The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Capital, the State, and Environmental Pollution in Nigeria

Local Content Requirements in Nigeria's Extractive Sector and the Implications for Sustainable Development

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