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ABSTRACT
The essay examines the impact of corruption on the Niger Delta region of the Country. Nigeria’s bulk of centrally collected revenue comes from oil, which is found largely in the Niger Delta, making the region the most central to the Country economic survival, yet under development remains the main feature of the region. Elite from the region have persistently blamed this paradox on the lopsided distribution of Nigeria’s oil wealth, but the central argument in this paper is that the underdevelopment of the region is firmly rooted I the systematic corruption that has most become a subculture among regional public office holders. Corruption is one significant aspect of the region’s political economy that cannot be ignored in any meaningful analysis of the region’s underdevelopment. There is nowhere else that the failure of government, whether federal, state and local governments, is more apparent in underdevelopment than in Niger Delta of Nigeria.
