Summary The Ogoniland area of the Niger Delta region has experienced widespread contamination from petroleum hydrocarbons originating from Nigeria’s active oil sector. Following a report and recommendations published in...
Issued: 2:00pm Sunday, 10th March 2019 The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) continued with its observation of the 2019 Nigeria General Elections and in this interim report, we...
Issued: 2:00pm Saturday, 9th March 2019 Introduction With votes on-going in the 2019 Governorship and State Houses Assembly elections, the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) is receiving field...
Nigeria is in the middle of an election season, and the challenges involved in organising the nationwide and regional polls in the country’s southern Niger Delta region are acute....
Issued 12.00pm: Thursday, 7th March 2019 On Saturday 9th March 2019, Nigerians will come out to vote at State level elections into Governorship and State Assembly positions. Governorships elections will hold...
Summary In 2018, SDN engaged remote communities, heavily involved in the artisanal oil industry – and marked by the associated violence, corruption, and environmental problems of this illicit practice....
Issued: 8:00pm Tuesday, 26 February 2019 Introduction The Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) has been observing the national collation and announcement of the Presidential election results for...
Issued: 9:00 Monday, 25th February 2019 Introduction Following from its observation of the 2019 Nigerian Presidential and National Assembly elections, the Nigeria Civil Society Situation Room (Situation Room) received...
The Women in Governance project is an exciting new nine-month project by SDN, in partnership with the Nigerian Women’s Trust Fund (NWTF), and funded by the Open Society Initiative...
SDN is pleased to announce that in January 2019 it will launch a new project funded by the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF). The project will aim to work...
Niger Delta Watch 2019 is a citizen-led elections observation project reporting on the 2019 Nigerian presidential and governorship elections. The project focuses on the states of Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta,...
The past few months have witnessed a dramatic increase in the political manoeuvring in advance of the 2019 Nigerian election. A raft of defections from the ruling APC party...
Report 1: Public Perceptions of Security Dynamics and Stabilisation Interventions in the Niger Delta
Summary This report presents the results of a public perceptions survey, carried out by SDN in Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers states. It focuses on citizens’ perceptions of the current...
Recent political developments are paving the way for changes in how Nigeria’s oil industry, predominantly based in the Niger Delta, is run. So we are stepping up our campaign...
Corruption, patronage networks, difficulty in getting access to political representatives, and a lack of transparency mean it is extremely difficult for citizens in the Niger Delta to hold government...