CHANGING HOSTILE ATTITUDE OF OIL PRODUCING COMMUNITIES THROUGH EFFECTIVE PUBLICATION (A CASE STUDY OF SHELL PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY)
ABSTRACT
This study aims at investigating the techniques being used by shell to avert and keep under control, the cases that frequently occur between it and the host communities in which it carries out its oil exploration and production activities. Apparently, problems have continued to exist in oil producing communities which is the nations treasure base owing tooil production and consequence under development in the area as witnessed in the communities where the operations exist and the entire oil producing communities as a whole is it ironically indeed the fact that the area is largely under developed and eh majority of Nigeria wealth comes from there. In the process of finding out strategies employed by shell, the largest oil company operating in the oil producing communities, hypothesis bordering on the people’s perceptions of the situation the degree of shell’ is involvement the company’s public relation efforts relevance and satisfactory level were evaluated and recommendations proffered. These data were collected from questionnaires and interviews responses from indigenes of Port- Harcourt and shell public affair department staff. The findings were a bit more positive than negative.