NIGERIA Flashcards

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Global importance of Nigeria

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

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

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  • 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
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Social background to Nigeria

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

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  • 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
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Advantages of TNC’s in Nigeria

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  • 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
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Disadvantages of TNC’s in Nigeria

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  • 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
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What was the TNC in Nigeria

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

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Advantages of shell working in Nigeria

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  • 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
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Disadvantages of shell working in Nigeria

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  • 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
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How does aid benefit Nigeria

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  • 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
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What prevents aid being used effectively in Nigeria

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  • 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
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How does urban growth affect nigeria

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  • 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
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How does mining and oil extraction affect nigeria

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  • Tin mining has led to soil erosion
  • oil spills
  • violent conflicts with locals
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The benefits to peoples Quality of life in Nigeria

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  • Reliable better paid jobs
  • Better access to safe water and sanitation
  • Improvements to infrastructure
  • Better quality of health
  • Reliable electricity supplies
  • Higher disposable income
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Things that have not been improved of peoples quality of life

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  • 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