'Nigerian farmers face eviction by foreign mega-plantation', 28 Jan 2015: Thousands of small farmers in northeastern Nigeria are facing eviction from their ancestral lands without consultation or compensation to make way for a U.S.-owned rice plantation, according to a report…[which claims that] [a]…30,000 hectare rice plantation…by…Dominion Farms, will displace up to 40,000 people in Taraba state…[According to] Mariann Bassey Orovwuje…spokeswoman for NGO Friends of the Earth Nigeria, one of the environmental and activist groups behind the report..."The people living on this land didn't even know the deal was happening…"Compensation is not coming; the people were never asked and never told. Eventually, they will all be forced off the land."…