The peace and conflict landscape in the Niger Delta remained largely unchanged during the third quarter of 2020. There were no significant changes in the levels of conflict risk and lethal violence during the period, compared to the second quarter of the year (See page 2). According to data uploaded to the P4P Peace Map…
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CLOSED: The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, (PIND) seeks to engage a Media Production Firm for the NDYEP Project, to produce four Sector-based Short Video Case Studies and 12 Video Testimonials of the Niger Delta Youth Employment Pathways Project. The overall purpose of the Video case studies is to document key learnings…
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This special edition of the weekly update spotlights the violent demonstrations in the Niger Delta in the aftermath of the ‘EndSARS’ protests in Nigeria. The protests which started as a campaign against police brutality has snowballed into mass demonstrations, crackdown by security forces and destruction of infrastructure by hoodlums who have hijacked the protests across…
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The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta, (PIND) seeks to engage a consultant to provide technical assistance to the Graduate Employment Enhancement Program (GEEP) of the Delta State Job Creation Agency.
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This weekly update spotlights communal conflict in the Niger Delta with a focus on inter-communal clashes over land disputes in Delta State. According to data (see map below), inter-communal conflict over land ownership and boundary disputes caused over 300 fatalities in Delta State between January 2016 and August 2020. Recently, communal tensions escalated following a…
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The last five years have seen improvements in the Niger Delta’s security landscape that government, civil society, and development agencies can further build upon to promote resilience and lasting security. However, violence in the region persists, with ongoing cultist and communal clashes, as well as other forms of criminality and violence. In addition, new issues, including COVID-19 and volatility in…
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DESCRIPTION This special edition of the weekly update highlights spiraling protests against the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) of the Nigeria Police over allegations of heavy-handedness including unlawful arrests, torture and extrajudicial killings across the country, with a focus on clashes between the police and protesters in the Niger Delta. The ‘EndSARS’ protests were reportedly triggered…
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The Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta is seeking proposals to engage a Master Service Provider as a linkage facilitator to work with the key actors in the MSME space (BSPs, large buyers, financial institutions, Chambers of Commerce, etc) to implement intervention activities geared towards improving the productivity and growth of MSMEs in the Niger Delta region.
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It has come to our attention that an email was circulated impersonating a staff of PIND at about 8:43 PM yesterday Sunday, October 11, 2020. The subject of the email is “Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta (PIND)” and it recommends that the receiver(s) click a suspected malicious link within the body of…
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