Strategy · International Advocacy
The diplomatic and legislative arm of the restoration agenda — coordinating advocacy in Washington, London and Brussels, and driving the petition to amend Nigeria's Land Use Act in favour of communal title and host-community consent.
Council desks
Each desk maintains a standing brief for its jurisdiction and copies official correspondence to the relevant Nigerian mission so that engagement is formally on record.
US Congress briefings, State Department engagement, think-tank and human-rights coalition building.
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
3519 International Court NW, Washington, DC 20008
+1 (202) 986-8400
info@nigeriaembassyusa.org
Lobby letters and briefing packs are copied to the Embassy for the official record.
UK Parliament (APPG Nigeria), Commonwealth channels, FCDO engagement, UK legal advocacy.
Nigeria High Commission
9 Northumberland Avenue, London WC2N 5BX
+44 (0)20 7839 1244
info@nigeriahc.org.uk
Historical treaty correspondence is held in the UK National Archives at Kew.
European Parliament resolutions, EU due-diligence regulation, extractive-industry transparency.
Embassy of Nigeria to Belgium, Luxembourg & the EU
Avenue de Tervueren 288, 1150 Brussels
+32 (0)2 762 3020
info@nigerianembassy.be
EU corporate sustainability rules directly affect operators in Ijaw territory.
Contact details listed are the public addresses of Nigeria's diplomatic missions. To join a delegation, submit a briefing document, or reach the Council secretariat, use the contact and partnership desk.
Petition
The Land Use Act vested all land in state governors and severed Ijaw communities from the legal ownership of their ancestral territory. The Council's petition, built on the draft amendment published in The Enclosure of the Water World, demands six structural corrections:
Convert land over oil-bearing and gas-bearing formations into registered communal title held by the host community, as provided in the draft amendment.
Require free, prior and informed consent of host communities before any allocation, licence or acquisition affecting communal land.
Restore the 50% derivation principle agreed in the pre-independence fiscal commissions, phased from the current 13%.
Raise the PIA Host Communities Development Trust from 3% to a figure reflecting actual remediation costs, with community-controlled trustees.
Mandate automatic five-year legislative review of the Land Use Act and Petroleum Industry Act environmental provisions.
Fund full implementation of the UNEP Ogoniland recommendations as the template for remediation across Ijaw territory.
Signatures are compiled by the Council secretariat and submitted to the National Assembly committees on Lands and Petroleum Resources, and to the desk you select.
Upcoming engagement
Working session walking through the draft amendment: converting oil-bearing communal land into registered communal title, restoring free prior and informed consent, and an automatic review clause. Open to all registered members.
Virtual
Side-event delegation presenting the Enclosure of the Water World evidence base: derivation shortfall, PIA host-community gaps and UNEP Ogoniland remediation status.
New York, UN Headquarters
Roundtable with parliamentarians, the Commonwealth Secretariat and UK-Nigeria trade envoys, anchored on the Bodo v Shell settlement precedent and pending remediation claims.
London, Houses of Parliament
Engagement with EU institutions on corporate sustainability due-diligence obligations for oil companies operating in the Niger Delta, and EU-funded remediation partnerships.
Brussels, European Parliament precinct
Dates are confirmed per diplomatic and parliamentary calendars. Members receive invitations through the events page and newsletter.
Sign up
Every sign-up is emailed to the Council secretariat inbox and logged against your chosen desk, so the coordinator for Washington, London, Brussels or Abuja receives it directly.
Every briefing is anchored on documented law and precedent — the Land Use Act, the PIA, UNEP Ogoniland, and decided cases in the evidence library.
Ijaw professionals in Washington, London and Brussels join scheduled delegations; the Council provides briefing packs and talking points.
All correspondence is copied to Nigeria's missions and logged, so engagement is formal, traceable and cumulative rather than episodic.