Determinants of Social and Rural Communal Conflict in South –South Environment, Nigeria

Princewill Ubani, Datonjo Kio- Lawson and Comfort Obasiolu
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Princewill Ubani: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ken Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
Datonjo Kio- Lawson: Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Ken Saro – Wiwa Polytechnic Bori, Nigeria
Comfort Obasiolu: 31 Rukpakwulosi Port Harcourt Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Scientific Innovation, 2020, vol. 7, issue 2, 38-45

Abstract: South- south region is one of the prominent geographical zones in Nigeria West African with hilarious mineral and natural resources. The rich environment has attracted many multi-national companies especially in the oil and gas sector and the people believed that conflict is the only strategy to benefit and attract physical development in their negatively impacted environment. This research was demanded to really substantiate the claim. Therefore, activities and survey of multinational companies, land use dispute, chieftaincy tussle, social media /online communication, waterfront geography and undemocratic leaders questionnaires were designed and distributed across the six states of south-south region for complete determination of social and rural conflict. The collected questionnaires or samples were prepared and analysed using regression and Duncan multiple coefficient. The results for determination of social and communal conflict in the region detailed that exploration and multinational companies (t =12.748), chieftaincy dispute (t = 11.230), social media /online communication (t =7.797), waterfront geography (t =3.324), undemocratic leaders (t =2.992) and landed use property (t =3.214) at (p

Date: 2020
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