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THE POLITICS OF RESOURCE CONTROL IN NIGERIA: AGITATION AND INNOVATION
ABSTRACT
This paper conducts a comprehensive interrogation on resource control; its meaning, agitation, innovation and politics as well as its manifestation as one of the most highly contentious issues in Nigeria’s federalism. The paper adopts a historical/descriptive method of enquiry and generates data largely from books, journal articles, magazines/newspapers and the Internet. The paper argues that the central control of oil resources and the utilization of the revenue derived therefrom to fast-track the development of the nation tends to favour the major ethnic groups rather than the minority from which the oil is exploited. The conflict over the distribution of State resources and its control within communal territories exacerbated the difficulties of political accommodation in Nigeria’s federation. Findings have revealed that there has been innovation in the agitation for resource control in Nigeria, which ranges from regional cleavages, States, minority/majority ethnic groups to geo-political zones.The paper makes conceptual and practical recommendations for rethinking and restructuring of the nation’s federalism for mutual coexistence and management of the nation’s resources.
Key words: Politics, Resource Control, Nigeria, Agitation, Innovation