期刊名称：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
印刷版ISSN：2250-0715
电子版ISSN：2248-9010
出版年度：2012
卷号：4
期号：1
页码：113-120
出版社：International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities
摘要：This paper examines the potentials of the Niger Delta region in the Nigerian State using the historical approach as the platform for our analysis. We observed that long before the discovery of oil in Oloibiri in 1956, the region sustained the Nigerian economy with oil palm produce, fish production and other agricultural produce. The region is still endowed with other untapped resources that can sustain the region and the Nigerian State for a long period of time even after oil ceases to flow. In this paper our fears are expressed over the persistent existence of the hydraheaded monster of marginalization, oppression, terrorism, that has bedevilled the region, fuelled by the so called majority tribes and leaders. Unless the principles of derivation and resource control that were in use before 1967 and practice of fiscal federalism are adhered to for the sake of equity, justice and fairness, the lifting up of this imminent threat to the region will be a mirage.
关键词：Niger Delta; Oloibiri; fiscal federalism; resource control; Nigeria.
