Violence, terrorism and security threat in Nigeria’s Niger Delta: An old problem taking a new dimension

Abstract

This paper offers a new and broader look at the violent agitation and domestic terrorism in the region, highlights
the missing link in previous studies and fills this gap in literature. Premised on projections and analysis based
on experiential knowledge of facts on ground, this paper analyzes and explains the Niger Delta crisis within the
Frustration-Aggression theory and argue that frustration is the bane of the recurrent violence in the region. This
paper argues that most of the circumstances that generate the frustration and anger that degenerate into
murderous militancy in the region is founded on a sense of injustice and also premised on the claim that the
Nigerian state has continued to ignore the preceding factors, environmental security and infrastructural
developmental issues that sparked the conflict in the first place.