Eleven river basins in Nigeria

This situation existed from colonial times when land legislations, monetization, and the imposition of taxation led to both the intensification and extensifica-tion of agricultural land use for additional cultivation of cash crops (Tanko, 2005). 

At Independence in 1960 the only viable and sustainable source of foreign earnings was the production of primary products such as cash crops including cocoa, cotton, peanuts, rubber, and palm oil for the international market. For the leadership in the country, the first challenge was to ensure the provision of primary infrastructures, especially, electricity, and piped water, and to ensure food security and ways to earn foreign reserves. At that point, Nigeria had only just discovered petroleum products in low commercial quantities. 

2 Conceptual Framework Megadams and Rapid Development in Africa 

The concept of development on the basis of megadam projects began with the Aswan Dam in Egypt in 1902 following Garstin s hydrological surveys between 

High Dam that came to be built later) according to Fahim (1981) included  

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Fig. 93.1 Eleven river basins in Nigeria. (Cartography by Stephanie Shaw, University of Kentucky) [Numbers 1 through 11 are Sokoto-Rima River Basin, Hadejia-Jama are River Basin, Chad Basin, Upper-Benue Basin, Lower-Benue Basin, Cross-River Basin, Anambra-Imo Basin, Upper-Niger Basin, Niger Delta Basin, Benin-Owena Basin, Ogun-Oshun River Basin]...

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