Nigeria: N-Delta Remains Key to Country's Future -Confab Participants

11 February 2008

Lagos — IS it possible to hold a conference on oil and gas without it becoming a riotous discussion on the situation in the Niger Delta?

The well worn cliches - environmental despoliations, kidnapping, hostage taking and a high military presence in the region that make living abnormal - were frequently uttered at Tell's "50 Years of Oil in Nigeria," an ambitious international conference that imposes on itself a search for the road to the future, had a hard time staying on its chosen course.

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