The Niger Delta: A bouquet of investment opportunities

By John Iyene Owubokiri

The Niger Delta region of Nigeria is a sprawling mass of expensive real estate that is held together like a cusp by the Atlantic at its Southern fringes. From an aerial view the Niger Delta is a tuft of wild forests, thick green vegetation, beds of rubber, banana and oil palm plantations, ridges of cassava, pineapple and maize, rows upon rows of fruit bearing plants indigenous and peculiar to the Niger Delta, all watered and enriched by the River Niger in the North and by the Nun River, the Forcados River, the Bonny River and the Imo River, themselves hungry tidal tributaries of the Atlantic sea.

The avian, aquatic and animal populations are diverse, colourful and as wild as the prairies of our delta. I was born in Bolo on a sunny Wednesday; Bolo is an Ijaw community on the…