Browsing: Niger Delta

At least the Pope is no longer in charge! Sovereignty comes with the incredible opportunity to birth the state to which Obasanjo celebrates. The condition comes with ownership of everything. He wants us to believe Nigeria is a sovereign state claiming oil ownership in the Niger Delta area. There cannot be two sovereign states within a state, as Obasanjo posited. If this is true, Is Nigeria the owner of Obasanjo library too! Nigeria is also the owner of Boko Haram, not only the Oil in the Niger Delta. We left the stage of religious wars, and the principle of Sovereignty, therefore, involved a good deal of struggle and bloodshed.

The reason the Niger Delta region has remained underdeveloped till today in spite of the huge resources pumped into the area by the various governments, intervention agencies, international oil corporations, oil services companies, development partners, global foundations, other corporate entities, wealthy individuals and community development efforts etc., is simply because the people are more inclined towards defending selfish and parochial indulgences than insisting on fundamental growth and development.