Nigeria: Oil communities insist on resource control

Oil communities and other stakeholders in Delta state rounded up a three-day seminar in Warri on "Multinationals and Ethnic Conflicts in the Niger Delta (Delta)" recently, maintaining that the ways out of the crises in the region are for the oil-bearing communities to be part of the control of their oil resources and the Federal Government to amend the obnoxious, repressive and draconian laws in the statute books that conferred unilateral powers on the centre over the said resources.