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
Kingdom of Bonny rulership position of the Founding group of Houses ('Duawaris') of Ancient Grand Bonny Kingdom. From time immemorial, the traditional rulers of the 'Duawaris' who are not kings are 'Aseme-Alapu' (chiefs of aboriginal royal blood) and 'Amadapu' (subordinate heads) of inalienable heritage of the kingdom. In other words, the traditional rulership position of the traditional rulers of the 'Duawaris' are based on their God-given inalienable natural law and natural right of succession from the patriarchs (founding fathers) and aboriginal kings (monarchs) and the rest of the founding generation (ancient [aboriginal] landmarks) of the kingdom. The founding generation Ancient Grand Bonny Kingdom