• oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria. In September 2008, President Umaru Yar'Adua announced the formation of a Niger Delta Ministry, with the Niger Delta Development...
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    through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta, into the Gulf...
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    exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which...
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    Ijaw people (category Indigenous peoples of the Niger Delta)
    people, are an ethnic group found in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with significant population clusters in Bayelsa, Delta, and Rivers. They also occupy Edo, Ondo...
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    the Niger River. The delta masked the mouth of the great river, and for centuries Nigerians chose not to tell Europeans the secrets of the interior. In...
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  • about the design of vessels suitable on the Niger and the various settlements in the interior of the Niger Delta. Laird never returned to Africa but instead...
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    environment of the Cross–Niger eco-region. To the south and south-west lies the Niger Delta swamp forests. To the north, the Cross–Niger transition forests...
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    1239–1259. doi:10.1002/2016JG003701. S2CID 135024272. "Niagara River". "Ganga Delta". Khan, Abul A.; Pant, Naresh C.; Goswami, Anuj; Lal, Ravish; Joshi, Rajesh...
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    traditions. In broad terms, the southeast was occupied mainly by Igbo, the Niger Delta by Edo and Igbo related people, the southwest by Yoruba and related people...
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    which passes through the state. It is a coastal state located in the Niger Delta region, and occupies 20,156 square kilometers. It shares boundaries with...
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