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RESOURCE CONTROL AND THE NIGERIAN CONSTITUTION
Mineral oil is said to constitute about 70% of the total national revenue in Nigeria with a Significant percentage coming from the Niger Delta Area. Prior to the discovery of mineral oil in commercial quantity, Nigeria was earning its national revenue from agricultural produce like cocoa, palm oil, groundnuts, rubber, cotton, hides and skin etc. The burning issue of the moment is the clamour from the people of the Niger Delta for the absolute ownership and contro! of the mineral oil and gas both from the onshore and offshore oil fields. Put in other.words, the elite of the Niger Delta are of t…
