Development and the Niger Delta, are interrelated concepts that seems to elude intellectual comprehension because of the latter’s ‘slippery’ reality due to allied terms such as ‘coastal’ and ‘riverine’ to ‘delta’ as well as the former’s utopian foundations. While the Development’s manifestation in the latter is a long sorted dream, the Niger Delta’s state seems to defy the acceptance of the former despite several interventions as well as programmes for its operationalization. Some methodological problems have been identified. First is the problem of the Niger Delta delineation which combines human and physical geographic parameters, exposing a complex composition of the study area. Secondly, there is the misconception on the idea of development as only physical infrastructural provision, exclusively related, to roads, building of schools, hospitals, etc over the years. The above challenges have made it seem as though ‘nobody’ and ‘nowhere’ is actually being given attention or the attempt to advance the course of the people as well as environment, is a ‘wild goose chase’. The paper is of the position that, the pursuit of the provision of information as well as support for the acquisition of skills, equipment and fund to pursue maritime related skills as well as businesses by the inhabitants of the inaccessible areas of the delta, is probably, the fundamental springboard for the development of the study area. The paper utilized the historical method with leaning towards ethnographic tools.