resources have taken center STAGE in economic development issues for quite some time now. Many researchers over the years have cautioned countries against the dangers that this resource poses to the economy. Indeed looking back at the last three or four decades, it can be hastily concluded that countries “blessed” with these resources do not seem to have any significant economic growth advantage over those that have little or none of these major resources. At the center of this unwelcomed phenomenon is the struggle of ownership and MANAGEMENT of these resources. It is very common to hear of rebels and militant groups, fighting with governments and state AUTHORITIES over ownership and management of these resources. The case of various rebel groups such as The Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), the Ijaw Youth Council, and the Niger Delta Vigilante all in Nigeria’s oil city of Niger Delta is just one example of the EMERGENCE of militant groups struggling for ownership and management of natural resources with state authorities. The ownership and management of the diamond resource in Sierra Leone has for a long time been a struggle between the state authority and five major rebel groups (Revolutionary United Front, Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, Civil Defence Forces, Kamajors, and West Side Boys). Governments in sub-Saharan Africa have been accused of massive mismanagement of its natural resources. It is therefore not surprising that, the birth and number of militant groups has a positive relationship with the discovery of natural resources in this sub regionplz Mark at BRAINLIEST