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The Isoko area in the west of Niger Delta hosts Shell's largest oil and gas fields, but also suffers from the worst ecological crises attendant to oil exploration and production. The Ogoni people's protest about the pollution of their land is interpreted incorrectly in most cases. Addresses the land question in this article, with the main hypotheses: land crises in the host rural areas of Nigeria are rooted in the structure of the state-oil companies' alliance in accumulation, and: the regime of land ownership and its politics account for the willfull pollution of the environment in the oil communities. (Afr Inst S Afr/DÜI)

Examines the crises in oil-producing areas, alliance between the state and Shell Oil, willful land pollution, the centrality of land to social and economic well-being, protests, and legal action; Isoko area in the western Niger delta.

In Nigeria, the state, which, ought to be central to the development and democratization project, remains as repressive, undemocratic and oriented to zero-sum politics as ever. The state does not really have development on its agenda. This is not to assume that the state has not formulated development plans, policies and projects; rather they only mimic the development models of the West, which cannot be replicated in Nigeria due to historical factors among others [Ake: 1985; Omoweh & Boom: 2005, Omoweh: 2005, 2006, Kaiser and Okumu: 2004]. South Korea is far from being a liberal democracy not because of its relative economic growth, but due mainly to its model of post-colonial authoritarian and undemocratic state. The kind of development promoted by such state can hardly be sustained as evident in the economic crisis of 1997/8 from which it is yet to recover [Bang-Soon: 2003, Omoweh: 2005]. Adequate scholarly and policy attention has to be paid to so many false starts that have characterized the construction of the developmental state, especially as the debate now emphasizes its democratic component.

The study looks critically into the origin, nature, dynamics and trends of the political competition and development of Nigeria's Fourth Republic, paying attention to the content and direction of the political struggles, the actors, and institutions involved, the interest they represent, their strengths and weaknesses, and the consequences for the economic and social lives of the people. It evaluates the democratic experiments in Nigeria, highlighting the factors accounting for the blocked option, and prospects of escaping from it. It is demonstrated that Nigeria has witnessed considerable liberalization of the polity since May 1999, which, if sustained over time, especially with emphasis on inclusiveness, responsiveness, accountability, integrity and transparency of the process, could lead to the consolidation of democratic principles and practices, and good governance. (GIGA-Sbd)

The acute economic crisis that started in the Nigerian economy in the early 1980s and the IMF/World Bank adjustment programme that was instituted by the Babangida administration in 1986 to tackle it form the primary objects of analysis in this book. Among other things, the authors examine the impact of the adjustment programme on the performance of industry (both generally and in the vehicle assembly and iron and steel sub-sectors), Nigerian workers, and the country's foreign policy orientation. (DÜI-Hff)