NIGERIA

Question 1

Global importance of Nigeria

Answer 1

• Supplies 2.2% of world’s oil
• Major contributor of UN peacekeeping

Question 2

Regional importance of Nigeria

Answer 2

• Africas’s highest GDP
• Highest farm output in Africa
• One of Africas fastest growing economies

Question 3

Political background to Nigeria

Answer 3

• Used to be a UK colony
• Europeans exploited its resources including its people, slaves
• Became fully independent
• power struggles resulting in lack of political stability

Question 4

Social background to Nigeria

Answer 4

• Multiethnic and multifaith
• islamic north and Christian south caused tensions
• Boko Haram islam terrorist organisation
• Civil war

Question 5

Environmental background to Nigeria

Answer 5

• North is a desert with decreasing rainfall, mainly used for cattle
• South has high temperatures and high rainfall
• Southern area is mostly common, hard to keep cattle due to tsetse fly
• Oil industry has resulted in environmental degradation due to oil spills and forest fires

Question 6

Advantages of TNC’s in Nigeria

Answer 6

• companies provide employment and the development of new skills
• more money is spent in the economy
• investments by companies in local infrastructure and education
• valuable export revenue is earned

Question 7

Disadvantages of TNC’s in Nigeria

Answer 7

• local workers are sometimes poorly paid
• working conditions are sometimes very poor
• management jobs often given to foreign employees
• much of the profit generated goes abroad

Question 8

What was the TNC in Nigeria

Answer 8

Shell
- one of the largest oil companies
- operations in Niger delta have been controversial

Question 9

Advantages of shell working in Nigeria

Answer 9

• Provides direct employment for 2700 people, 97% are Nigerian
• Money is spent on healthcare benefitting 250,000 people
• Provides 3000 scholarships to secondary schools and unis
• Works with the nigerian government to build a network of natural gas plants to support the growing manufacturing industry

Question 10

Disadvantages of shell working in Nigeria

Answer 10

• Oil spills from pipelines cause water pollution and contamination reducing agricultural production and fishing
• Oil theft and sabotage are big problems
• Most crude oil is exported and profit does not go to Nigeria
• Human right abuses, murder and torture committed against the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta

Question 11

How does aid benefit Nigeria

Answer 11

• NGO’s ‘Nets for life’ provides education on malaria prevention and distributes anti-mosquito nets to households
• aid from the USA helps to educate and protect people against the spread of HIV/AIDS
• the USAID- funded community care in Nigeria project provides support packages for orphans and vulnerable children

Question 12

What prevents aid being used effectively in Nigeria

Answer 12

• Corruption in governments
• government has been know to divert money to be used for other purposes
• donors may have political influence over what happens to aid

Question 13

How does urban growth affect nigeria

Answer 13

• Squatter settlements are common
• Waste disposal is a major issue, largest landfill site in the world
• Traffic congestion is a problem in cities such as Lagos, high level of pollution

Question 14

How does mining and oil extraction affect nigeria

Answer 14

• Tin mining has led to soil erosion
• oil spills
• violent conflicts with locals

Question 15

The benefits to peoples Quality of life in Nigeria

Answer 15

• Reliable better paid jobs
• Better access to safe water and sanitation
• Improvements to infrastructure
• Better quality of health
• Reliable electricity supplies
• Higher disposable income

Question 16

Things that have not been improved of peoples quality of life

Answer 16

• people are still poor
• limited access to services still
• the gap between rich and poor has become wider
• corruption means wealth has not been used as it should of been