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Gdp Per Capita Ethnic Groups
894 wordsThe most populous country in Africa, Nigeria accounts for one quarter of Sub-Saharan Africa's people. Although fewer than 25 percent of Nigerians are urban dwellers, at least 24 cities have populations of more than 100, 000. The dominant ethnic group in the northern two-thirds of the country is the Hausa-Fulani, most of whom are Muslims. Other major ethnic groups of the north are the Name, Tiv, and Kanuri. The Yoruba people Christian and half Muslim. The predominately Catholic Igbo's are the lar...
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1 000 Population One Of The Most Important
1,178 wordsNigeria is found near the middle of Africa, its land area is at a total 923, 768 square kilometers, 910, 768 land and 13, 000 water square kilometers. Nigeria is slightly more than twice the size of California. The borders of Nigeria are Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and 853 km of coastal boundaries. The climate in Nigeria varies; it is equatorial in the south, tropical in the center and arid in the northern regions. Nigeria's terrain varies from southern lowlands that merge into central hills a...
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North And South Military Coup
1,309 wordsBackground Nigeria is located in West Africa and it is the most populated country in Africa. The country's name was chosen by the wife of Lord Lugard, who was appointed as governor of the country during colonial times. The name comes from a combination of the words "Niger, " the country's longest river, and "area. " Some of its major cities are Abuja, its capital, Lagos, its former capital, Ibadan, Osogbo, Port Harcourt, and Enugu. Nigeria has a long and varied history. The earliest known civili...
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Great Leaders Nnamdi Azikiwe And Patrick Henry
1,141 wordsBoth Nnamdi Azikiwe and Patrick Henry though they lived more than two hundred years apart from each other, were leaders of their own time. They both lived through unbearable, and inhumane conditions. Nnamdi Azikiwe through slavery in Nigeria, and Patrick Henry through the unbearable things that Great Britain had placed upon the colonists. The conditions in both of their times might have been similar, but certainly not equal. The Africans were under much worse conditions than the colonists. They ...
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Shell And Nigerian Oil Uti
1,084 wordsShell Oil and the Exploitation of Nigeria Nigeria has been a country in political turmoil for a long time. The country was created in 1914 under British colonial rule and at that time it was considered a protectorate. It was not until 1960 that Nigeria received independence from the United Kingdom. One of Nigeria's problems politically is that it has over three hundred different ethnic groups. The three largest of these are the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba. At the time of the independence of N...
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Shell And Nigerian Oil Uti
1,141 words... in mostly small ways one could ignore however, the amount of time that this harm exists is very great and odds are it will be polluted in the future faster than it takes for the Earth to heal itself. Where the Ogoni's oil was taken by Shell and parts of the profits allocated to the Nigerian government there is a major misallocation of who received the money generated by the oil. The oil generates 10 billion dollars a year to the Nigerian government from producing the vast amounts of oil, thi...
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World Health Organization Years Of Age
1,730 wordsThat lead everyone in for a great awaking. Malaria in humans is caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium and the four subspecies, falciparum, via, malaria, and ovale. The species that causes the greatest illness and death in Africa is P. falciparum. The disease is transmitted by the bites of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, of which the Anopheles gambiae complex (the most efficient) is responsible for the transmission of disease in Africa. Fever is the main symptom of malaria. The most se...
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Cross Cultural Awareness For International Part 2
1,662 words... characteristics: analytical, logical, linear, orderly, and explicit. Culturally, it can be traced from American excellence in rationality, reasoning, and scientific inquiry. However, this method also has limitations: flexibility and economy of thinking may suffer from a rigidly fixed pattern; the process of thinking is an integrated whole, not necessarily a linear progression of the segmented parts; and an analytical approach is not applicable to many worldly and managerial issues (Eckhouse ...
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Foreign Investors Nigerian Government
909 wordsNigerian Investment Incentives Nigeria is the most populous African country, with a population of over 100 million. In fact, one out of every four Africans is a Nigerian. It should therefore be appreciated that business opportunities exist in virtually all sectors of the economy such as oil and gas; banking; agricultural; manufacturing; construction; transportation; information technology; telecommunication; education; health and water resources as well as professional services. The Nigerian Inv...
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1,495 wordsThe Need for Social Services for Nigerian Children Nigeria is one of the biggest countries in the world. It faces a lot of problems connected with its multi religious and multi tribal nature. Its total population is about 120 million people and consists of over 350 ethnic groups 1. Numerous problems connected with the child welfare occuring in Nigeria are typical for all African countries but in Nigeria they are manifested more obviously. These problems include the major disaster of the world in...
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Massive Amounts Nigerian Government
1,701 words... permitted the maximum amount of equal basic liberty compatible with similar liberty for others. Rawl calls this the "liberty principle. " (Rawl, p. 54) Second, inequalities in social primary goods such as rights, income and opportunities, are allowed only if they benefit everyone, especially the least advantaged, and only if they are open to all, or everyone has fair equality of opportunity. Rawl calls this the "difference principle. " (Rawl, p. 58) The liberty principle takes priority over ...
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Federal Republic People F
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2,002 wordsComparing Two African Countries The purpose of this paper is to compare the ways two African countries gained independence from their colonizers. Within the conceptual framework of this report, we will see how Nigeria and Zimbabwe became independent from the British rule, and see what events accompanied that independence. In order to illustrate how independence was gained, we will analyze the events that took place in both countries prior to the independence movement. In 1890 a pioneer column se...
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Largest City Lagos Capital
343 wordsLagos is the largest city in Nigeria. In 1989 the population was 1, 274, 000. It is still growing immensely as we speak. It is the former capital of Nigeria. It is located on the Gulf of Guinea. It occupies four islands (Lagos, Ikoyi, Victoria, and Ido). Lagos is Nigeria's largest city. It is the administrative and economic center of Lagos and also its main port. Main Industries include railroad repair, motor vehicle assembly, food processing, and the manufacture of metal products, textiles, bev...
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Live Their Lives Forced To Live
1,147 wordsBoth Nnamdi Azikiwe and Patrick Henry though they lived more than two hundred years apart from each other, were leaders of their own time. They both lived through unbearable, and inhumane conditions. Nnamdi Azikiwe through slavery in Nigeria, and Patrick Henry through the unbearable things that Great Britain had placed upon the colonists. The conditions in both of their times might have been similar, but certainly not equal. The Africans were under much worse conditions than the colonists. They ...
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Politically Stable Extremely Unstable Political
819 wordsA. Short essays. 2. I believe that Nigeria is most definitely an Unfinished State, I feel this way due to the fact that the people can work their whole lives often funding other cities that they do not live in but their government cannot seem to pull their people together so that they may trust one another, even for the simple task of electing a mutually respected president. We as Americans have never had rejoicing in the streets due to one of our Presidents death. The sheer facts of Nigeria s h...
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Human Rights Violations Billion Dollars A Year
2,235 wordsShell Oil and the Exploitation of Nigeria Nigeria has been a country in political turmoil for a long time. The country was created in 1914 under British colonial rule and at that time it was considered a protectorate. It was not until 1960 that Nigeria received independence from the United Kingdom. One of Nigeria s problems politically is that it has over three hundred different ethnic groups. The three largest of these are the Hausa-Fulani, Igbo, and Yoruba. At the time of the independence of N...
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Human Rights Abuses System Of Government
2,057 wordsOn May 21, 1999, a local road construction company, Due Limited, attacked a group of peaceful protesters with clubs, daggers, axes, machetes, and other dangerous weapons. Tension began to arise when on April 26, 1999 the company began destroying newly planted crops of local farmers in the Ogoni kingdom of Gonna. They did so without paying adequate compensation for the crops or carrying out an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for the road project, as required by international environmental s...
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