PUBLISHERS' MATERIAL; SYNOPSIS 'THE EXPENDABLES'

THE EXPENDABLES
Niger Delta Indigenes and Igbos Quest
For Survival In One Nigeria, 40 Years
After The Nigeria Civil War

                           SYNOPSIS – “THE EXPENDABLES”

Most people around the globe identify the NIGERIA NIGER DELTA area as an area of appealing and unprecedented environmental degradation from 52 years of intense oil exploration or perhaps oil exploitation. It is an area where all international best practices and conventions on environmental safety are jettisoned by even “High International Standard” multinationals even though they observe the conventions strictly else where.

However, that is a tip of what the world knows about the woes of the inhabitants of the Niger Delta and Igbos since the end of the Nigeria civil war. The book, “THE EXPENDABLES” is chronicling the checkered journey of the Igbos and Niger Delta inhabitants from pre-colonial time to the infamous civil war which loss by the Igbos and Niger Delta inhabitants laid the foundation for this deliberate unparallel environmental degradation. The book showed how and why the peoples’ resources were taken over by a military fiat followed quickly by sustained De-intellectualization of the vanquished people in addition to sustained ethnic and religious killing of the same vanquished people by some other ethnic groups. However, it was not only tales of woes the book explored vital areas the Niger Delta area can be revitalized economically socially and politically and I sincerely believe that those solutions would also be vital solution to the challenges facing us as a nation. With these solutions Nigeria may again move on in the part of sustained growth. -THE EXPENDABLES!