Bane of Nigeria

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Bane of Nigeria

Imagine a black plague destroying the last remaining forest. Then imagine a country where the people come last, and the best way to control the populous is by either bribing them or making them your enemy. Welcome to Nigeria. In the last thirty-two years not a day has passed where change is good. The president of Nigeria, "Goodluck Johnathon", contradicts his so told contributions by his actions in Nigeria. Good luck, and prosperity hasn't come to the Nigerians for a long time. Growth has been minimal and due to the technological advances worldwide; more problems in Nigeria have sprouted. Rather than good change, many problems have been added on to the tab. So much that older problems have become microcosms to the bigger, newly developed issues. Many people would think oil is a precious jewel, but Nigerians would think otherwise. The contributions oil has done lacks, and is furthermore a curse rather than a benefit.

Oil plagues the lands, destroying every last hint of wildlife, and money made from the oil is going to the wrong places. Oil as a whole might just be the bane of great Nigeria in the future to come and the evidence proves it. The good change has literally been washed away leaving more problems behind. Analysis of Nigeria's oil crisis will clearly state that in the past thirty-two years, the excavation of oil has only hindered Nigeria - ensconcing them further into a troubled government and adding more issues to there bill than ever before.

Destroying an economy is no hard task as is destroying a forest, but what's even easier is letting a plague loose. Oil in its own right is a plague, more specifically in the Nigeria delta. Citizens of Nigeria rely on...