By Jide Oyewusi
Your Excellency, ever
since the discovery of crude oil in the Niger Delta region in 1956, the fortune
of Nigeria as a nation has
never remained the same, especially from 1958 when Nigeria
The discovery of the black gold by Shell BP,
the sole concessionaire at the time has led to some level of development in the
country even though a far cry from what ought to be considering the huge
resources that have accrued to the nation from the oil trade.
So while many view the discovery of oil as a
blessing in view of those developments achieved especially during the oil boom
era of the 70s, some would rather see the discovery of crude oil as bringing
nothing but doom to the nation.
