Olokola LNG And The Niger Delta Question

I am also from the Niger-delta. My state has some deposits of oils and an abundance of natural gas- Anambra state.

@ono

dem never give us the resources, you don begin fight over who be real Niger-Delta and who no be.

You don begin discriminate on who be "yardstick" and who no be.

Are you sure when we get full control of these resource, 2 million people no go die unto determining who is Niger-Delta and who is not?

@ ono

I'm still waiting for you to tell me what the Niger-Delta question is O! Please hurry!

Note that I am also from Niger Delta, Abia.

I don't know why you guys are trying to relgate a complex issue down to a simple question.

Ther are varying underlying issues that constitute the Niger Delta question, of which the most crucial one at the moment is the distribution of resources that originate from the delta.

I am sure there are other issues(I know Denex you are particularly concerned about the ensuing property grabs and conflicts if the resources are handed back to the delta) that will need addressing come when hopefully ''resource control'' is given to the producing areas.

Be that as it may, it serves as no excuse for the lopsided(to put it mildly) distribution of income from the resources.

I would suggest a timetable, off the top of my head of four years or so for the gradual retrenchment of the current arrangement. This I think will allow all parties to become accustomed to new state of affairs and also give time for the ''sub'' issues to be resolved.

Doyin 13,

Do not cry more than the bereaved. Ogun does not produce Ekpo oko (motor).  lol

@Xris

The funny thing is my reasons for advocating a change are not altruistic.

I know you have been saying that we should ignore the oil, but how can we when the incentive is to continue getting a freebie.

It simply makes economic sense that the Niger Delta should be the base at which oil related development is situated, not in Kaduna or any non oil related area (it seems the Olokola situation is unclear)

I don't want to get too technical, but if anyone has read Freiderich Hayek, you will know that government is a poor distributor of resources. They simply do not have enough knowledge to know the places where resources be best allocated, and this is even more pertinent in Naija case where resources are limited. And if you know Public choice theory you will understand that politicians will make stupid decisions motivated in Naija case by ethnic sentiments. (I just hope there is no resident economist to embarrass me).

If resources are given to the Niger Delta obviously it becomes a battle at state government level, but this is an imminently more manageable problem than a Federal imbalance.

It is a rather crude example but take the case of the Uk where if it should occur, any oil related problems will ultimately be localised to the Scots area and
have a minimal impact on an economy which is not so lopsided. That is why in England we are not too concerned about Scots and their recent overtures towards independence. 

So Xris resolving the Niger Delta distribution question will help all communities in their quest for development and stop all that talk about oil you will like to see dispelled.


And who say Ogun no dey produce oil. They never make the oil rig wey go reach am na why.

 

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@ Denex and Xris74,
I believe doyin13 has answered your question - in a way I think I won't have been able to.

doyin 13,
Hmm, so you read that interesting book: Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale. No wonder. Awon ti won k' awe re, awon t'opolo won pe.

Did you read Igbo Olodumare too?

Xris74,

Let me ask you a counter question:

Saudi Arabia is an oil producing country. Saudi Arabia is believed to host some of the largest crude oil reserves in the world. The country is the largest exporter of crude in the world.

Will it be right to say that since the Nile delta is closeby to the country, Saudi Arabia is a part of the Nile Delta?.

You need to know the word ''Delta'' to fully appreciate which area could be classed as a deltaic region or not. Let me help you with a link from Wikipedia. These days children don't browse sites where they can learn and apply knowledge. Everything must be spoon fed to them. They prefer chatting online and wasting precious time on useless sites that will do them no good.

Did you do Geography in your secondary school days at all?

The links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_delta;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_Delta

You will see from up there that the areas which make up a deltaic region are those that lie close to where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary or lake.

You will aslo see from the second link that the Niger Delta historically and carthographically consist of present day Bayelsa, Delta and Rivers States. It was only in year 2000 that OBJ decided to expand it's definition to include Abia State, Akwa Ibom State, Cross River State, Edo State, Imo State and Ondo State. That should answer your question.

I didn't know all this. So during the time of Bendel state, some part was in the Niger-Delta, some part was not.

I beg to know whether the Imo River and the Benin River are part of what makes up the Niger-Delta.

Until you stop thinking of the Niger-Delta as a tribe with oil deposits, you will continue to have a problem. Employ the maps and geographical details you're administering for us to yourself.

So Edo state (number 6 in the above map) is also landlocked? I never knew this. State creation has made and marred many things. What an upset.

No mind me jare. I talk as if being landlocked is a ticket to poverty and merely been coastal a ticket to bliss.

Buhahah. Ignorance is a big disease. Go check out Central Bank of Nigeria's data for poverty levels in Nigeria in 2006. You will receive the shock of your life.

When will this idiot write correctly. Common application of is and are in sentences are beyond him. What an excellent  representative of the Ijaw tribe.

the coal deposits are very small compared to the gas resources, and generally the plants are more expensive to build with more pollution prevention equipment needed, and materials handling and so on, gas burns cleaner and is easier to set up. I guess the S/E states should for their own good come together and invest in a 1,000MW coal power plant to supply their own energy needs, the power industry is now deregulated so they shouldn't be waiting for the FG to do that for them.

1ton of coal = $80

Nigeria has 700 million tonnes of proven coal deposits and about 3 billion metric tonnes of reserves.

$240 billion in total. The UK has more than one 2,000 MW power plant. The USA has several. In this month alone 3 people have been killed and 6 other people buried alive in coal mines in the USA. If coal wasn't valuable, why were they risking their lives there. Liquified coal is the new form being used by ultramodern plants. Enugu has the highest deposits but there are about 6 other states.

Plans are afoot regarding cool exploitation. Pretty soon Mohadana/Dimka will see that Igbos have natural resources beyond oil.