Resource Control and Niger Delta Struggle

Abstract

This paper will critically focus on the production of oil as Nigeria’s source of foreign exchange income and the struggle of the Niger Delta  to achieve the resource control. The paper examines the grievance of the people of Niger Delta and their increased agitation for a share of the oil benefits. It also analyses the agitation for resources control in southern Nigeria in general and Niger Delta in particular. The paper identifies the actors in the struggle for resource control agitation and the issue in context. About 95 percent of  Nigeria’s export earnings come from the oil resources of the Niger Delta region in Southern Nigeria. But only a small fraction of the revenue generated gets to the Niger Delta. Therefore, the Region is the least developed part of Nigeria.

Keywords: Resource Control, revenue allocation.