The Niger Delta Crisis: Beyond the Price of Crude Oil

The Niger Delta Crisis: Beyond the Price of Crude Oil

with

Dr. Pat Utomi
Senior Faculty
Lagos Business School

moderated by

Jennifer Cooke
Co-Director
CSIS Africa Program

Dr. Utomi is a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a Senior Faculty of the Lagos Business School-Pan African University, where he is the director of the Centre for Applied Economics. He has served in senior positions in government, as an adviser to the president of Nigeria, in the private sector as chief operating officer for Volkswagen of Nigeria, and in academia. He discussed the key issues fueling the violence in the Niger Delta and the obstacles and prospects for moving forward to resolve the conflict.