A Comparative Evaluation of the Management of Petroleum Resource in Different Jurisdictions: Canada, USA and Nigeria [A Case Study of Niger Delta of Nigeria]
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Niger Delta has for some years been the site of major confrontations between the people and the Nigerian government's security forces, resulting in extrajudicial executions, arbitrary detentions, and draconian restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, association, and assembly. These violations of civil and political rights have been committed principally in response to protest about the activities of the multinational companies that produce Nigeria's oil, and the use made of the oil revenue by the Nigerian government. Based on this the study sought to employ Comparative Analysis of Research Design. The study focuses on the Comparative Evaluation of the Management of Petroleum Resources in Different Jurisdiction: Canada, USA and Nigeria, so that the government of Nigeria can borrow a leaf from other nations' management system approach, in order to sustain the Post-amnesty Programme and to put an end to the restiveness in the Niger Delta region. It also concludes that since, petroleum extraction in the Niger Delta is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy. Petroleum has since its production in the Niger Delta been considered exclusively a state property. The right approach should be made to ensure that the conflict is stopped and the areas affected developed so as to foster peace and growth in Nigeria. The study recommended that the ownership and control of petroleum resources be made to revert to the oil producing areas just as the case in the United States of America and as witnessed in Canada, where ownership and control of natural resources is vested on the people of the region.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".