However, arsenic is also used in industry (as a wood preservative, and also in paints, dyes, metals, drugs and soaps) and in agriculture and is sometimes released into the environment from factories, industrial plants and farmingenterprises.
It needs to create new jobs for the millions employed in state-owned enterprises and the farming sector whose jobs will become redundant after China joins the World Trade Organization.
Nigeria could funnel its oil revenues into a more efficient financial system that could provide capital to the private sector to build roads and power stations and expand private enterprises, such as farming.