In 1956, the year Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser shook the global order by nationalising the Suez Canal, and Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan tasted the exhilarating air of independence, something equally historic happened beneath Nigerian soil. At Oloibiri, decades of prospecting ended in a dramatic geyser of crude oil and with it, the promise of a nation “flowing with milk and honey”.
From resource jinx to renewable rising: The choice Nigeria must make, By Terseer Ugbor
