Nigeria: Special Report - How Nigerian Law Contributes to Abject Poverty in Niger Delta Communities Despite Decades of Oil Wealth

Shortly before sunset on a Saturday earlier this year, relatives of Golubini Okoromadu gathered outside her house in Oporoza village, in the Gbaramatu Kingdom to share out her properties.

She had passed on five days before on January 9 as a septuagenarian. And tradition in the Ijaw-dominated town dictated that a deceased's possessions must be shared by their relatives within one week of their death.

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