Nigeria not rich –Aregbesola

Osun State Governor Rauf Aregbesola has said Nigeria does not possess the wealth it professes to have, describing the country as “poor indeed”.

He spoke on Tuesday night at the Government House during a dinner to commemorate the 21st anniversary of the state.

He said research had shown that the Nigeria’s oil reserve would dry up in the next 50 years, stressing that the country must evolve economic strategies to meet yearning challenges when oil dries up.

“At the maxim, oil will dry up in the next 50 years. Nigeria’s problem is not political but it is economic. How are we going to survive when oil dries up,” he emphasised.
The governor said the N4tn accruable annually to the country on oil sales was grossl