{"id":11068,"date":"2016-08-22T21:38:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11068"},"modified":"2016-08-22T21:38:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T21:38:52","slug":"why-search-for-oil-in-north-east-is-misplaced-priority-ex-akwa-ibom-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=11068","title":{"rendered":"Why search for oil in North-East is misplaced priority \u2013 Ex-Akwa Ibom Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=9992&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>The Senator, who in the immediate past administration represented Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State, Helen Esuene ,on Sunday adduced reason why the current search for crude oil deposit in the North-East region of the country was a misplaced priority.<br \/>\nAddressing a religious meeting of Celeries at the Villa Marina Hotel, Eket, Akwa Ibom State, she said, \u201cThe search for crude oil in the North-East of Nigeria is a misplacement of priority because in the next two decades the world will be driven by technology, not dependence on oil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senator Esuene, while expressing concern over the current economic recession in the country, predicted a bleak future if the nation does not deliberately engage in an economy-without-oil policy to get out of the present doldrums.<\/p>\n<p>She said, \u201cRight now what is needed to be done is through a clear leadership that can grow the whole country in a balanced way without a single dime of oil income.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe present effort of President Buhari\u2019s administration in diversifying the economic base to agriculture has no alternative but the approach needs to be redefined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have suggested the concept of zones of development where you take the country\u2019s six zones and find the endowment in each of these zones around which you will build rapid industrial development through the Public Private Partnership (PPP) that will create quality jobs and lead to growth not based on extractive resource like oil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach State of the Federation must as a matter of urgency, identify Nigeria\u2019s staple food items that can survive in the region at all seasons and make it a duty to attract investors to grow such crops for the nation, mass production of food is the recipe for economic growth,\u201d she stressed.<\/p>\n<p>The erstwhile Labour Party governorship candidate in the 2015 governorship election in Akwa Ibom state urged the Buhari administration to apply the microeconomic principle of human needs in the budget implementation by making sure that the prices of food items in the market are within the reach of the citizenry.<\/p>\n<p>She pointed out that a total ban on the importation of rice into the country would have sufficed better after two planting seasons when the rice producing zones of the country would have positioned themselves for the task ahead.<\/p>\n<p>DailyPost<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/crude-oil.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10621\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10621\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/crude-oil-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"crude-oil\" width=\"300\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/crude-oil-300x174.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/crude-oil.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><code><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><br \/>\n <!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=9992&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senator, who in the immediate past administration represented Eket Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State, Helen Esuene ,on Sunday adduced reason why the current search for crude oil deposit in the North-East region of the country was a misplaced priority. Addressing a religious meeting of Celeries at the Villa Marina Hotel, Eket, Akwa Ibom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[550,2812,2811],"class_list":["post-11068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-akwa-ibom-state","tag-eket","tag-helen-esuene"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/crude-oil.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2Sw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11068\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}