Ijaw women of Gbaramatu and Egbema clans in Delta state protest the socio-economic and political condition of the people by peacefully and non-violently occupying the Chevron Abiteye flow station. They plan to remain there until their demands for employment, microcredit schemes and provision of infrastructure in the two clans are fulfilled. Chevron invites the Nigerian security to get the women to disperse; some of the women are brutalized by the military invited by Chevron.

Itsekiri women protest the excruciating socio-economic condition in the delta region by peacefully and non-violently taking over a ChevronTexaco airstrip at Escravos export terminal in Delta state and occupying the place for ten days with a promise to leave only on the condition that their demands for better conditions of life for citizens of the Niger Delta are met. The women were forcefully ejected from the platform, and some of them brutalized, by the military men invited by ChevronTexaco to intervene.

More than 5,000 Ijaw Youth gather in the ancient Kaiama Town, Bayelsa state, proclaiming the “Kaiama Declaration” and start peaceful protests against oil corporations for the years of environmental abuse and neglect of the region. The major demand of the youth is ‘resource control and self-determination’. The government and oil corporations respond with violence through the deployment of military troops into the region, targeting the Ijaw communities – Yenagoa, Mbiama, Bomadi, Port Harcourt etc. Many youths are killed by the military.