[size=15pt]Ogun to join oil producing states soon [/size] — DANIEL
Written by Tony Edike
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
ENUGU—OGUN State Government has commenced the exploration of oil deposits in the state and would likely join the league of oil producing states in the next few months, Governor Gbenga Daniel announced this yesterday.
Daniel, who made the revelation while interacting with newsmen at the Protea Hotels Nike Lake Resort, Enugu, also dismissed, as untrue, media reports regarding his frosty relationship with former President Olusegun Obasanjo, saying he has a cordial relationship with Obasanjo, whom he said “remains my leader.”

According to Otumba Daniel, exploration activities have reached advanced stage at the three oil wells within the state, expressing the hope that, in the next couple of months, they would be taken over by the federal government as part of the oil wells in the country.

The governor, who bagged a chieftaincy title from the traditional ruler of Nike Community, Igwe Julius Nnaji, yesterday, disclosed that his government had made serious investments in the exploration of the mineral deposits in the state, particularly the oil and gas, saying he was hopeful that Ogun would be pronounced an “oil state in the next couple of months”.

He said, “One of the things our administration did when it came on board was to conduct a survey on the resources available in the state. I can confirm to you that there is an oil and gas deposit in Ogun State. I don’t want to politicize it, but I am hoping that, in the next couple of months, the state would be declared as one of the oil producing states of the country”.

He said his administration has embarked upon numerous developmental projects aimed at taking the state to greater heights, explaining that the desire to move the state forward accounted for why he traveled recently to Hong Kong to represent that state in an economy meeting held there. The dividends of the investment tour, he said, would soon begin to manifest in the state, as Hong Kong was ready to partner with the state in so many areas.


source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/content/view/18148/45/

Its a good development.