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Redefining Environmental Governance in the
Niger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperative
bolatito adetoyi
bolatito.adetoyi@valpo.edu
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adetoyi, bolatito, "Redefining Environmental Governance in the Niger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperative" (2018). Graduate
Academic Symposium. 54.
https://scholar.valpo.edu/gas/54
Subject: Redefining Environmental Governance in the Niger-Delta: The Nigerian 
Leadership Imperative. 
 
 
This research closely examines how oil exploration has caused environmental 
degradation and untold hardship to the local communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. 
Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting 
Countries (OPEC), and the largest in the African continent. The crude oil that puts Nigeria in this 
position is being produced in the Niger Delta region of the country. 
The objective of this research paper is to understand the challenges of leadership in 
Nigeria in the context of environmental governance. This research seeks to define and 
understand what environmentally concerned leadership in Nigeria would look like using the 
Niger-Delta oil producing states as a case study. We will examine the impacts of climate change 
on Nigeria, the social dimensions and the need for transformational leadership. First, this 
research paper will define the concept of environmental governance, its origins, climate change, 
and the impacts the discovery of oil has had on the Niger Delta communities. This research paper 
will also critically discuss the politics of environmental governance, the challenges of leadership 
in Nigeria, the role that ethnic marginalization plays in the response to the dilemma, how it 
affects different demographics, and how these factors has exacerbated violence in the region, and 
the vicious cycle of how poverty brought on by marginalization and environmental degradation 
has caused even more problems for the environment. This paper also examines the implication of 
Nigeria’s dependence on oil, which has led to the recent economic crisis, and what this means for 
Nigeria, and specifically the Niger-Delta when the world moves on from crude oil products. This 
paper also critically examines the role of Multi-National Corporations and foreign oil companies 
and the role they play in the Niger-Delta, and by extension, environmental governance. 
This paper also discusses the impact of climate change on human rights, social policy, 
and the environmental implications of crude oil production in Nigeria as research shows that 
these issues are intertwined as climate change impacts every aspect of human life. This research 
paper will also discuss attempts at mitigation on each issue and the leadership imperative as well 
as the impact this will have on environmental sustainability, and the idea of environmental 
human rights, its merits, problems and concept of inevitability of moral choice. This paper also 
examines environmental governance, the state of environmental protection (or the lack thereof) 
and social change. It also offers an analysis on how these impacts affects different demographics 
distinctly and finally an insight on what this all means for future generations.  
Finally, this research paper critically examines the need to redefine Nigerian leadership, 
the role that transformational leadership plays in achieving environmental sustainability, and 
how issues such as lack of infrastructure, underdevelopment, and widespread corruption need to 
be tackled from the stand point of sustainable development. This paper also analyzes the 
contradictory tendencies of wealth and poverty in Nigeria despite her massive oil resources. It 
further conceptualizes the class contradictions of the Nigerian state, with emphasis on the 
commonalities of interest between the domestic ruling class and foreign capital.  
 
 
 


Redefining Environmental Governance in the Niger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperative

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Valparaiso UniversityValpoScholarGraduate Academic Symposium Graduate SchoolSpring 5-3-2018Redefining Environmental Governance in theNiger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperativebolatito adetoyibolatito.adetoyi@valpo.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/gasThis Oral Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion inGraduate Academic Symposium by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member atscholar@valpo.edu.Recommended Citationadetoyi, bolatito, "Redefining Environmental Governance in the Niger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperative" (2018). GraduateAcademic Symposium. 54.https://scholar.valpo.edu/gas/54Subject: Redefining Environmental Governance in the Niger-Delta: The Nigerian Leadership Imperative.   This research closely examines how oil exploration has caused environmental degradation and untold hardship to the local communities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Nigeria is the sixth largest producer of crude oil in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), and the largest in the African continent. The crude oil that puts Nigeria in this position is being produced in the Niger Delta region of the country. The objective of this research paper is to understand the challenges of leadership in Nigeria in the context of environmental governance. This research seeks to define and understand what environmentally concerned leadership in Nigeria would look like using the Niger-Delta oil producing states as a case study. We will examine the impacts of climate change on Nigeria, the social dimensions and the need for transformational leadership. First, this research paper will define the concept of environmental governance, its origins, climate change, and the impacts the discovery of oil has had on the Niger Delta communities. This research paper will also critically discuss the politics of environmental governance, the challenges of leadership in Nigeria, the role that ethnic marginalization plays in the response to the dilemma, how it affects different demographics, and how these factors has exacerbated violence in the region, and the vicious cycle of how poverty brought on by marginalization and environmental degradation has caused even more problems for the environment. This paper also examines the implication of Nigeria’s dependence on oil, which has led to the recent economic crisis, and what this means for Nigeria, and specifically the Niger-Delta when the world moves on from crude oil products. This paper also critically examines the role of Multi-National Corporations and foreign oil companies and the role they play in the Niger-Delta, and by extension, environmental governance. This paper also discusses the impact of climate change on human rights, social policy, and the environmental implications of crude oil production in Nigeria as research shows that these issues are intertwined as climate change impacts every aspect of human life. This research paper will also discuss attempts at mitigation on each issue and the leadership imperative as well as the impact this will have on environmental sustainability, and the idea of environmental human rights, its merits, problems and concept of inevitability of moral choice. This paper also examines environmental governance, the state of environmental protection (or the lack thereof) and social change. It also offers an analysis on how these impacts affects different demographics distinctly and finally an insight on what this all means for future generations.  Finally, this research paper critically examines the need to redefine Nigerian leadership, the role that transformational leadership plays in achieving environmental sustainability, and how issues such as lack of infrastructure, underdevelopment, and widespread corruption need to be tackled from the stand point of sustainable development. This paper also analyzes the contradictory tendencies of wealth and poverty in Nigeria despite her massive oil resources. It further conceptualizes the class contradictions of the Nigerian state, with emphasis on the commonalities of interest between the domestic ruling class and foreign capital.     

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