Conflict in the Niger Delta Jonathan’s defeat in the March 2015 elections, the amnesty program seems likely to end in December 2015 and with patronage to former militant leaders terminated, local discontent is deepening. A February 2016 explosion in a pipeline operated by Shell Petroleum Development Corporation, a Royal Dutch Shell subsidiary to the Shell Forcados export terminal halted both production and imports. Speculation centered on militants using divers. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum and the head of Nigeria’s oil company, said Nigerian production was down 300,000 barrels a day as a result. On May 11 Shell closed its Bonny oil
Bonny Island outlying fishing settlements lying along the Bonny River’s coastline. Finima is an aboriginal community predating Bonny (okoloma)and situated along south of Bonny Island. First settlers of Finima were the Nyamkpos and Koniboye Awanta Tobins of Kongo Lineage. The hinterland includes the village communities that serve as home to natives of Bonny kingdom. Presently, the Island Kingdom of Bonny has thirty five chieftaincy houses. These are fourteen major chieftaincy houses (five among which are Duawaris); twenty minor chieftaincy houses; and then the George Pepple's lineage of the Perekule royal house that has recently been producing Kings of the Kingdom. The ancestry