Nigeria Beyond Oil: Ooni Of Ife Says Ife’s Gold Needs Exploration

Adeyeye-Ogunwusi-Ooni-of-IfeThe Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, says Ile Ife will be the abandonment point of the new Nigerian abridgement in a column oil and gas era.


Oba Ogunwusi bidding optimism that an analysis of the huge solid minerals in the state, abnormally gold, would accord an aberrant addition to the nation’s abridgement and about-face it abroad from animation of the awkward oil market.

He fatigued the charge for focus to about-face from oil and gas to added solid minerals in Nigerian states.

“All over the country solid minerals are everywhere. But we haven’t even exploited it.

“Indeed, we can survive after oil and gas. If we don’t accept oil and gas, we can survive because the mysteries in this acreage are added than anywhere in the world.

“There is a huge abeyant in Ife. There is no solid mineral we don’t have. We accept gold, Timberlight Gemstone… We accept actual ample calibration drop of all those abstracts and I like to convenance what I preach,” the autocrat told Modele Sarafa-Yusuf on Channels Television’s programme, ‘View From The Top’.

The Oba said that he was already alive with the Accompaniment and Federal Governments to advance solid minerals, tourism and agronomics to accumulate the youths affianced and advance the bounded economy.