Something deep inside keeps telling me Nigeria would have been far better without crude oil. And I believe it! Nigeria was relatively better before independence. It was still, before crude oil became the main economic sustainer, before the 1970s. Nigeria’s economy was stronger in the global trade index. The currency was competitive. The discovery of crude oil in commercial quantities introduced crudity into our psyche, and drew unnecessary attention locally and globally. Things began to fall apart. Foresight disappeared. Ingenuity diminished. Innovation was abandoned, integrity shunned, sanity fled, love lost,…
Read MoreCrude Tensions Over Crude Oil: Brothers At War Over Oil Wells, By Akpadem James
