Over ten million persons have benefitted from the Community Centred Approach to Transforming Criminality and Violence in three States of the Niger Delta region.
Mass Media and Information Management Coordinator of the peacebuilding organization, Search for Common Ground, Nigeria Mr. Sunny Dada made this known at a Regional Dissemination Meeting of a Social Media Listening Report.
Giving an overview of the success stories of the Project, Mass Media and Information Management Coordinator of the peace building organization, Search for Common Ground, Nigeria Mr. Sunny Dada said the community centered intervention which is funded by the European Union has impacted the lives of locals positively in the last two years.
Mr. Dada said the Transforming Criminality and Violence {CRIN-VIN} Project has benefitted over 10 million persons directly and indirectly in 66 host communities across 33 Local Government Areas in 3 States of Bayelsa, Rivers and Delta through Economic Livelihood Initiatives, Capacity Building Scheme and Arts and Culture as part of peace building efforts in the Niger Delta.
He explained that 5 million benefitted directly while another 5 million were indirect, stressing that through the Arts and Culture activity, about 2.7 million benefited just as the Social Cohesion programme while capacity building reached over 830 persons.
Mr. Dada stated that the Social Media Listening Report indicated that illegal oil bunkering generated the highest number of mentions with a total of 7,500 conversations which reached 295 million people across the world just as drug abuse also attracted attention during the survey from July 31 to August 12, 2025.
He emphasized that the report highlights the multifaceted realities of the socio-economic challenges in the Niger Delta, stressing the need for stakeholders to come up with policies to tackle the underlying discontent in the region by addressing issues as unemployment, cultism and drug abuse.
The meeting went into plenary session moderated by the Mass Media and Information Management Officer at Search for Common Ground, Nigeria, Mrs. Folashade Seye-Ojo where key actors discussed the report and proffered likely policies to tackle some of the concerns in the Findings
