ABSTRACT
           It should depress us that the Government and oil companies in the Niger Delta are the cause of the problems facing the people. To expose and deplore this ill is the Kernel of this project. The research is divided into five chapters: chapter one consists, the introduction which shows us where oil was first discovered in Nigeria. Also we have the statement of the problem. Here, we see how the oil producing communities have always been cheated; the revenue allocation process in Nigeria have usually been made to favour the majority ethnic group. Furthermore, we have the significance of study, the scope and the research methodology – this is, the various materials that led to the success of this work. Chapter two is the literature review which includes the various works of writers and comments which are related to the topic of my writing. Chapter three explores Niger delta problems using Kaine Agary’s Yellow Yellow. Chapter four also talks about Niger Delta problems using Tanure Ojaide’s The Activist. Finally, chapter five summarizes, concludes and gives recommendation to this research work.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
           The exploration of oil in Nigeria started in 1937 and was pioneered by the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria limited which then based in Warri. In the course of the exploration for oil, the first explored well was drilled in 1951 at Ihuo north east of Owerri where no oil was discovered in commercial quantity at Oloibiri in the then Rivers State presently in Bayelsa by Shell. Consequently, there was pipe line connections between Ololbiri and Port Harcourt which enabled the first Cargo of Crude oil to leave Niger Delta on 17th February, 1958 when production stood at 6,000 barrels per –day. The implication of this is that by 1970 the oil industry became responsible for about 95% of the nations foreign exchange earnings of which Shell was the major contributor.
           The Niger Delta region the producer of these natural and mineral resources encompasses the swampy terrain of coastal area of the South – South compelled with some parts of the South – West and South – East which comprises the following states Abia, Akwa-Ibom, Bayelsa, Cross Rivers, Delta, Edo, Imo, Ondo and Rivers as states in Niger Delta.
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