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Oil Pollution, Environmental Injustice, and the Crisis of Girl-Child Education in Nigeria’s Niger Delta, 1956–2020

Oil extraction in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has caused extensive environmental degradation, which disproportionately affected girls’ access to education between 1956 and 2020. This study examines how oil spills, gas flaring, deforestation, and water contamination led to the collapse of agricultural and fishing livelihoods, thereby intensifying gender inequalities in schooling. Adopting a historical-descriptive approach and drawing on primary and secondary sources, the paper argues that environmental