WHICH PROVISIONAL IDEA DO I HAVE ON MY MASTERS THESIS RESEARCH AT THIS

MOMENT, AND WHICH MOTIVATION DO I HAVE FOR THIS IDEA?

Business Management for companies in areas where the community
members/environments they are in are hostile. Shell Petroleum Development
Company & other Oil companies, Oil Facilities in Nigeria as a case study.
The campaign of destruction of the nations oil facilities by Niger Delta militants
recently took a turn for the worse as the Movement for the Emancipation of the
Niger Delta (MEND), launched a surprise attack on Atlas Cove Jetty, Lagos, killing
three naval personnel, including a Commander, and a civilian.
About ten other members of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas
Workers (NUPENG) were reported to have been injured in the incident, which is
perhaps the first strike outside the Niger Delta areas, by militants.
Hand grenades and other heavy weapons were reported to have been employed by
the militants who later issued a statement in which they attributed the expansion of
the attacks to Lagos to the need to make government take them serious and start
negotiations with them.
I strongly condemn the attack on the Atlas Cove Jetty, a major and very important
oil facility. The audacious attack is dastardly and despicable, especially coming at a
time when the Federal Government had demonstrated its resolve to pursue peace in
the region with offer of amnesty to the militants. The militants did not need to blow
up any oil facility to get the attention of the Nigerian government, because the
Niger Delta problem has already attracted both national and even global attention.
I believe the government should properly address the issue by adequately providing
the basic amenities which the militants in this region requests, make free health
care available for the people in these regions, make jobs available to the youths and
people in this regions, develop these rich oil regions.
The militants, on their part, should come to the realisation that they have no
country other than Nigeria. They should, therefore, embrace the offer of amnesty by
the government and negotiate to obtain true peace and progress for their people.
They should realise that attacking oil facilities, especially those located outside their
territory, can only jeopardize the amnesty programme and the prospects for
restoration of normalcy in their beleaguered homeland. Militants should avoid
fanning the embers of ethnic discord with attacks on facilities outside their region.
They must be careful not to ignite an ethnic confrontation with attendant dire
consequences for our fragile federation.