The Niger Delta People have a reason to fight
Niger Delta had always been a battlefield. I belong to the northern region, I have never asked myself why these people would not want to share their OIL with the rest of the us until recently. We thought the Niger Deltans are so greedy, hated everyone, we thought they were unfriendly because we were being deceived, tricked to believe that these people carry guns for no reason other than not willing to share. With the recent emergence of the boko haram sect, that changed the way I thout about this dear region. So many questions regarding the existence of the richest region in Nigeria remained unanswered, and made me go ‘shopping’ (for answers, of course). To be sincere with you, a lot of my folks down here in the north do not know what the Niger Delta means, but I do, to me, it means ‘Graveyard’. The Niger Delta, in southern Nigeria is a very under-developed region today, and that supposed not to have happened because, it is in the Niger Delta that Nigeria derives its oil wealth w