Niger Delta Weekly Update for January 23-29, 2022
This special edition of the weekly update highlights emerging threats to public health and human security in the Niger Delta with a focus on the resurgence of Lassa fever in Ondo and Edo State. Lassa Fever, also known as Lassa hemorrhagic fever (LHF) is a zoonotic and acute viral disease caused by the Lassa virus. […]
Call for Applications: Internship to support PIND’s Integrated Peace and Development Unit (IPDU)
CLOSED: PIND seeks to engage an Intern to support the IPDU. The Intern will assist in improving the quality of IPDU deliverables. The intern would assist the Research Coordinator to provide technical support to organizations on how to use the Peace Map and Early Warning/Early Response infrastructure, and to continuously re-engineer the existing research process […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for January 16-22, 2022
This edition of the weekly update highlights communal conflicts in the Niger Delta with a focus on rising communal tensions over land disputes in Delta State. According to data (see map below), communal conflicts caused more than 350 fatalities in Delta State between January 2018 and November 2021. Recent incidents indicate a resurgence of communal […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for January 09-15, 2022
This edition of the weekly update spotlights the herder-farmer conflict in the Niger Delta with a focus on renewed clashes between herders and farmers in Ondo State. According to data (see map below), the farmer-herder conflict caused more than 30 fatalities in Ondo State between January 2018 and November 2021.
Niger Delta Weekly Update for December 12-18, 2021
This edition of the weekly update spotlights organized criminality in the Niger Delta with a focus on targeted violence against traditional rulers in Imo State. According to data (see map below), targeted violence caused over 300 deaths in Imo State between January 2018 and September 2021. Recent data shows an escalation of violence against traditional […]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for December 05-11, 2021
This special edition of the weekly update spotlights human-induced environmental disasters in the Niger Delta with a focus on artisanal oil refining related fire outbreaks in Rivers State. According to data (see map below), artisanal oil refining related violence and fire outbreaks caused over 120 fatalities in the Niger Delta between January 2018 and October 2021.
PIND, DMG-Event Roll out Entrepreneurship Training Program for 50 Renewable Energy SMEs in the Niger Delta.
(Warri, Delta State) On December 6, 2021, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) and DMG-Events, headquarted in Dubai, UAE commenced a concurrent one-week entrepreneurship training program in Warri, Delta State and Yenegoa, Bayelsa State for 50 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the Renewable Energy sector, with similar training scheduled to […]
PIND, NNF hold workshop on the PIA for Oil Companies
The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND) in collaboration with the New Nigeria Foundation (NNF) on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 organized a workshop for national and international oil companies on the Host Community Development Trust (HCDT) aspect of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
How Rivers State is responding to sexual violence [ICIRNIGERIA]
Niger Delta Weekly Update for November 28 – December 04, 2021
This edition of the weekly update highlights kidnapping for ransom in the Niger Delta with a focus on the targeted abduction of students and educators in Ondo and Edo State. According to data (see map below), more than 90 incidents of kidnapping were reported in Edo and Ondo State between January 2020 and September 2021. […]
