ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Urhobo militant movements, amidst the perceived Ijaw domination in the Niger Delta, and their positions in the array of actors that are involved in the regional struggle for ethnic minority and environmental rights. Civil resistance involves non-violent methods such as boycotts, strikes, protests and organised non-cooperation to challenge entrenched powers and exact political concessions. The socio-political engagements of the Urhobo people since colonial Nigeria revolved around Urhobo Progress Union. Territorial domain, demographic strength and associated distribution of power and resources are subject of intra- and inter-ethnic contestation in the Niger Delta. Urhobo youth have been partly involved in militancy since the wave of violence that started in the Niger Delta in the late 1990s. The Itsekiri and Urhobo people sponsored a series of campaigns to protest against perceived Ijaw-dominated control of the gains from the Niger Delta struggle.
