Solid Mineral Resources: Alternative Source of Revenue for the Nigerian Economy
The mining of solid minerals in Nigeria accounts for only 3% of its GDP, due to the influence of its vast oil resources. The domestic mining industry is grossly underdeveloped and that necessitate the need to import mineral resources that could be produced at home such as bitumen, iron ore, salt etc. The Nigeria government is presently controlling the sector but given rights to corporate organizations to mine and sell mineral resources. This paper tries to expose the potentiality in solid mineral resources as viable alternative to the petroleum sector, which production in Nigeria is unpredictable and the crisis in the region that produce the oil make unreliable as source earning for the country. This paper further shows areas where full private ownership or in partnership with federal, state or local communities can be encouraged, so as to fully developed the sector and generate a reasonable foreign exchange for the government and serve as an input to other sectors of the Nigerian economy. The study intends to provides additional sources of revenue for the government in view of the crisis in the oil producing region of the country and the study further show the available revenue generating options available to the government of Nigeria.
Predicting the Effects of Economic Diversification on Solid Mineral Development in Nigeria
As argued by Hlavova (2015), many of the developing countries are rich in minerals and at the same time one of the least developed due to over dependence on one sector as major source of revenue. For rapid development in Nigeria, there is the need to move from the mono-based approach and tap into the huge opportunities available in solid mineral development. The fundamental objective of this study is to predict the effects of economic diversification on solid mineral development in the attainment of sustainable development. Adopting multiple linear regression model, empirical findings are indicative that solid mineral development would be of immense benefit to the diversification of Nigerian economy in the area of employment creation, infrastructural development and improved internally generated revenue. This will however be impossible if the right policies are not in place and vigorously pursued.
The development of biological systematics : Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, nature, and the natural system
A reevaluation of the history of biological systematics that discusses the formative years of the so-called natural system of classification in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Shows how classifications came to be treated as conventions; systematic practice was not linked to clearly articulated theory; there was general confusion over the "shape" of nature; botany, elements of natural history, and systematics were conflated; and systematics took a position near the bottom of the hierarchy of sciences.