Close to One Trillion Dollars worth of oil profits later, the Niger Delta is in the end an ecological Armageddon. It fits perfectly into what the Canadian journalist and author, Naomi Klein, would describe as evidence of the consequences of “disaster capitalism.”

We are outrightly stealing our assets and we are very brazen about it. (See companion article).
Oil has made us lazy and we can do anything for oil money. No-one is paying attention to agriculture and we are suffering for its neglect. We must pay attention to it, most particularly those in Western Nigeria. We had a mini-war pepper recently but it would be a big one next time around.

Nigeria is one of the countries in the world where maternal and infant mortality are quite high. You don’t need the wisdom of Solomon to attribute this sad state of affairs to the zero healthcare provision that has been our lot in this country for so long.

The real truth was, President Jonathan was lured to Oyo State to attend the 60th birthday anniversary of the Governor of Oyo state. Akala stood proudly between a former and an incumbent president and the result was a photograph to frame for life by the Governor. It is quite possible that it finally dawned on the President of Nigeria that he was wasting precious national time on frivolity of the worst kind at a time the nation still did not have a budget for 2010 and he has not given the nation an idea of how he intends to lead.

In the Warri area of the country, it is common to here inhabitants say ‘Wafi no dey carry last’, meaning Warri and its habitants cannot be found on the last rung of the ladder when it comes to goals pursuit and attainment. Whether it is always rightly applied or not is a matter for debate .