Revitalizing Nigerian Natural Resources
Post by Ebis Okpeke It bands my heart whenever I try to decipher the modus behind the negligence and almost absolute shift of concentration from local production economy to foreign and internationally controlled economy by Nigerian Leaders and Africa at large. Nigeria can be prescribed as the most blessed black African country with so much human and natural resources, from crude oil, water, to cocoa, to palm trees, to gold, to agricultural products like yam, cassava , cocoyam , plantains , fish farming, to other economic trees like mahogany, rubber trees etc that if given the needed attention can create not only jobs enough for unemployed Nigerian Youths but can accommodate Youths from other sister Nations and Countries in Africa. It will interest you that each of these natural resources can be processed into so many finished goods from it, like the cassava for instance, can produce locally made garri, starch, perfumes, fertilizers , fufu, etcetera but few to