Nigeria:long & difficult history; corruption, greed & murder of the innocents! writes on the power of oil and the country Nigeria could have been and uses the shape of the Benue and Niger River which with their intersection makes a Y shape. “Foreign capital was rolling in at close to $90 million a year, in our first four years of independence. Despite our 250 tribes and tongues, Africa's most populous nation, linked by an expanding economy and a growing network of roads and power lines.”