Nigeria: Furore Over Stalemated Federal Gas Poly, Bonny

11 October 2012

Port Harcourt — Bonny community in Rivers State is home to a Shell oil terminal and the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG. Over the course of these corporate tenants' business of tapping crude oil and gas deposits in the shores of this tiny island, there has been established, as in most oil host communities, a love-hate relationship in which the natives repeatedly feel compelled to sack the operating companies for perceived unsatisfactory returns to the landlords.

Recently, youths of Bonny led another of these persistent protests to demonstrate the community's frustrations over not gaining returns commensurate with their status as prime oil host community.

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