Having a lot of oil (which translates to "Oil Wealth") shouldn't be a "curse" but rather a "blessing" if the resultant "oil wealth" is well managed and concrete effort is made to diversify the economy (e.g investments in agriculture, small/medium & large scale industries, qualitative education + health & social infrastructures, holistic community & individual... empowerment programs, etc) as we have seen in some other countries equally blessed with vast oil resources and who have managed same very well (e.g Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Quatar, UAE/Dubai, Venezuela, Libya, Gabon, Algeria, Iran, Indonesia etc)!
Our problem/challenge in Nigeria is basically that of a very self centered & myopic leadership class intent on perpetuating mass generational wastage, under development, mass impoverishment, alongside chronically under enlightened + under educated populace so that such evil & wicked "leadership class" can continue to hold the hapless Nigerian populace "HOSTAGE" & "INTERNALLY ENSLAVED" in order to siphon our "Oil Wealth" (and wealth from other sources/resources) into their individual pockets/accounts while simultaneously perpetuating the worst forms of human rights abuses on the helpless Nigerian populace who have become pawns in their criminal and atrocious "power play" for self aggrandizement as these sets of criminals compete amongst themselves for who can steal the most from our COMMONWEALTH!
I believe it is time we put a permanent end to this iniquity in our land and generation and we begin to use OUR COMMONWEALTH for OUR COMMON GOOD!
Anything short of this change in the scheme of things in The Federal Republic of Nigeria is an open invitation to anarchy, a failed state and dissolution of the current system that has refused to yield the long awaited dividends of Independence & Democracy to the vast generality of Nigerians more than fifty years after independence and I for one will never support the perpetuation of such evil system!
Yours in the quest for a better Nigerian Nation, African Continent & Global Community;
'Gbolahan 'Gbolaga Olubowale MSW,
President & CEO,
Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc,
USA.
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Our problem/challenge in Nigeria is basically that of a very self centered & myopic leadership class intent on perpetuating mass generational wastage, under development, mass impoverishment, alongside chronically under enlightened + under educated populace so that such evil & wicked "leadership class" can continue to hold the hapless Nigerian populace "HOSTAGE" & "INTERNALLY ENSLAVED" in order to siphon our "Oil Wealth" (and wealth from other sources/resources) into their individual pockets/accounts while simultaneously perpetuating the worst forms of human rights abuses on the helpless Nigerian populace who have become pawns in their criminal and atrocious "power play" for self aggrandizement as these sets of criminals compete amongst themselves for who can steal the most from our COMMONWEALTH!
I believe it is time we put a permanent end to this iniquity in our land and generation and we begin to use OUR COMMONWEALTH for OUR COMMON GOOD!
Anything short of this change in the scheme of things in The Federal Republic of Nigeria is an open invitation to anarchy, a failed state and dissolution of the current system that has refused to yield the long awaited dividends of Independence & Democracy to the vast generality of Nigerians more than fifty years after independence and I for one will never support the perpetuation of such evil system!
Yours in the quest for a better Nigerian Nation, African Continent & Global Community;
'Gbolahan 'Gbolaga Olubowale MSW,
President & CEO,
Nigeria & Africa Renaissance Initiative Inc,
USA.
http://
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