The Niger Delta, Nigeria's oil-rich region, has been subject to environmental degradation and neglect despite being the country's largest oil producer. The Ogonis are a minority ethnic group within the Niger Delta region. Due to the abundance of crude deposits, their land has been a beehive of oil exploration since the discovery of crude oil in Nigeria in the late 1950s. This subregion is also the most affected by oil exploration within the Niger Delta, hence, various government interventions have been directed at the sub-region. Not only that, several academic research have been undertaken to uncover or address political and economic maladministration of either the Niger Delta region as a whole or Ogoniland in specific, but quite a few have done justice to the environmental injustices of Ogoniland. To better understand the struggles of the Ogoni people, this work will explore the environmental and socio-political challenges of the Ogoni people through the lens of environmental justice.

 

Key words: Distributive Justice, environmental racism, oil exploitation, procedural justice, restorative justice, revenue sharing.