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Niger Delta Quotes By Nneka

If you're able to grow up in Nigeria and go through certain things, you're able to tackle anything around the world because you're able to live wherever, if you can survive in a city like Lagos or Warri or Niger Delta, as far as I'm concerned. — Nneka

Niger Delta Quotes By Nuhu Ribadu

GEJ is the only president in recent years who did not allocate a single oil bloc to anybody, not to talk of himself.
And these are the areas where you can tell corruption in its true colour.
He did not allocate oil bloc to himself, family or friends up till now.
He also did not give a single marginal field to himself or anybody else even though he is the only president that comes from the Niger Delta where the oil is coming from. — Nuhu Ribadu

Niger Delta Quotes By Emi Iyalla

The Niger delta as a matter of urgency needs to re-think its development strategy by developing her non-oil sectors. There is no easy way out of this, and we will all see that at the end it is the only way out. — Emi Iyalla

Niger Delta Quotes By John Ghazvinian

After years of watching their patrimony squandered in this way, a large percentage of the [Niger] Delta's population feels abandoned by both national and local politicians, and has settled on illegal bunkering as the most direct way to ensure that they benefit from their own oil wealth. The trouble is that what started as activism has become an industry. In the words of one activist, 'It is becoming increasingly difficult to separate greed from grievance. — John Ghazvinian

Niger Delta Quotes By Nnimmo Bassey

The Niger Delta is an occupied territory. Citizens raise their hands in the creeks each time they see the military — Nnimmo Bassey

Niger Delta Quotes By Emi Iyalla

Everybody looks at oil and almost entirely forget that the percentage of jobs the oil sector creates is relatively small compared to the population; the introduction of more sophisticated exploration methods makes it even worse. Oil companies now look for smarter, leaner and cheaper operations. Where will these leave the economy? Good disposable income to the government with no real value to the people of the Niger Delta. — Emi Iyalla

Niger Delta Quotes By Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

Niger Delta Quotes By Emi Iyalla

None of this is to deny that the Niger Delta has made mistakes. It has, and a good number at that. But then, mistakes are made to make wiser and therefore help in better decision making. — Emi Iyalla