Nigeria: A roadmap to harnessing Niger Delta’s wealth to benefit its struggling communities
Growth gatewayWith intentional improvement in the ease of doing business, captive power aimed at manufacturing clusters and the activation of natural entrepôts like Forçados, the Niger Delta can quickly become the gateway to sustainable growth in Nigeria and to a drastic reduction of poverty among its people.
Across the wider region, the Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta estimates that the national grid has never reached some 12 million residents of coastal communities.
But politics got in the way of execution – just as politics once made Nigeria abandon the natural ports of the Niger Delta in favour of Lagos.
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