Multiple taxation report is one of the biggest issues for women and young people in Rivers State. Our research found that the current system disproportionately harms them, prompting a...
Issues for host communities under the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) establishes the Host Community Development Trusts (HCDTs), which will guide oil and gas company...
SDN today releases research that highlights how the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) targeted toward host community development create both opportunities and challenges. We are encouraged by...
The lead-up to the Nigeria 2023 election was characterised by a growing interest among young people in the election process, largely due to the key provisions in the 2022...
Women and youth, including persons with disabilities, are underrepresented in politics and governance processes and their priorities are systematically neglected.The Rivers State Women and Youth Agenda represents...
This page will be updated if and when new information becomes available through INEC Nigeria What is Continuous Voter Registration?To vote in the 2023 elections, you need to be...
This weekend saw the latest tragic incident involving an artisanal oil refinery, with over 100 people reportedly killed in an explosion on the border of Imo and Rivers States....
What is happening? Nigerian domestic oil companies (DOCs) are taking over the country’s onshore oil and gas industry, while international oil companies (IOCs) are steadily moving offshore, or out...
In February 2022, a large consignment of imported petrol had to be withdrawn from the market, after it was found to have excessive levels of methanol, which was causing...
The case of Rumuekpe Community, Niger Delta, narrates the wretched human consequences of oil exploration. A community left without development, despite its resource riches, plagued by poverty and in-fighting. ...
Oil-producing communities desperately need their rights enshrined by the federal government with regard to oil-spill compensation, environmental clean-up and improved socio-economic development of the operating regions.
The yet-to-be passed Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) proposes a new fiscal regime for Nigeria’s oil industry which would governs the economic benefits derived from petroleum exploration and production. The...
On Thursday 3rd September, 2015 at the Nigerian Institute for International Affairs in Lagos, the Country Director of Stakeholder Democracy Network, Inemo Samiama received “The 2015 Community Development and...
The Petroleum Industry Bill: 14 years in the making Crude petroleum is Nigeria’s most important non-renewable energy source, contributing over 90 percent of the country’s foreign exchange earnings and...
Whatever strategy President Buhari chooses to address this program one thing is clear – he will be moving against very powerful forces, entrenched since the advent of democracy.