Hope and Betrayal in the Niger Delta: The prestigious and influential National Geographic reveals to the world, in a comprehensive report, the problem in Nigeria's Niger Delta. It is the kind of stuff successive governments did not want the outside world to know. "The Niger Delta holds some of the world's richest oil deposits, yet Nigerians living there are poorer than ever, violence is rampant, and the land and water are fouled. What went wrong? READ REPORT FROM CFN