OLAMIJUWON Emmanuel O. (1117172) Compile the demographic profile of your country based on the latest census data including: size of population‚ sex composition‚ age structure‚ racial composition‚ educational achievement composition‚ employment status BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Nigeria‚ located in West Africa‚ Nigeria is the population giant of Africa‚ with more than 140 million people. The terrain changes from the oil-rich Niger Delta in the south to a belt of rain forests inland and to high savannah-covered
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Sustainable Development in Africa (Volume 12‚ No.7‚ 2010) ISSN: 1520-5509 Clarion University of Pennsylvania‚ Clarion‚ Pennsylvania SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE ROLE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF NIGERIA E. M. Okonkwo‚ O. J. Okunola and C. S. Ezeanyanaso National Research Institute for Chemical Technology‚ Basawa‚ Zaria‚ Nigeria ABSTRACT Like any nation in the world‚ the challenges facing the sustainability of technological advancement of chemical industry in Nigeria today
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION This project focuses on the poverty profile in Nigeria‚ the foreign aids given to the nation to help alleviate poverty and how it affects the economic development of Nigeria. According to the World Bank website‚ “poverty is hunger. It is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. It is not being able to go to school‚ not knowing how to read‚ and not being able to speak properly. Poverty is not having a job‚ and is fear for the future‚ and
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FDI and Economic Growth: Evidence from Nigeria By Adeolu B. Ayanwale Department of Agricultural Economics Obafemi Awolowo University Ole-Ife‚ Nigeria AERC Research Paper 165 African Economic Research Consortium‚ Nairobi April 2007 THIS RESEARCH STUDY was supported by a grant from the African Economic Research Consortium. The findings‚ opinions and recommendations are those of the author‚ however‚ and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Consortium‚ its individual members or the AERC
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American Academy of Political and Social ScienceReligion‚ Legitimacy‚ and Conflict in NigeriaAuthor(s): Henry BienenSource: Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science‚ Vol. 483‚ Religion andthe State: The Struggle for Legitimacy and Power (Jan.‚ 1986)‚ pp. 50-60Published by: Sage Publications‚ Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and SocialScienceStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1045539 .Accessed: 02/10/2013 11:21Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates
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25‚ 2012 Is Nigeriaâs Unemployment Problem Unsolvable? M.A. Adawo‚ E.B. Essien and N.U. Ekpo Department of Economics‚ University of Uyo‚ Uyo‚ Nigeria Abstract: Unemployment in Nigeria is alarming. Its measurement by statistical authorities does not pose red alert. It has been discovered that the observed situation of unemployment is more serious than what official statistics want us to believe. The aim of this study is to examine unacceptable unemployment rate in Nigeria. Our findings show that
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ECONOMY OF NIGERIA Nigeria is a middle income‚ mixed economy and emerging market‚ with expanding financial‚ service‚ communications‚ and entertainment sectors. It is ranked 30th in the world in terms of GDP (PPP) as of 2011‚ and its emergent‚ though currently underperforming manufacturing sector is the third-largest on the continent‚ producing a large proportion of goods and services for the West African region. Previously hindered by years of mismanagement‚ economic reforms of the past decade
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4.) Railroads development was a key to the revitalization of Colorado in the course of 1870’s. Who were the key players in this‚ what were the key lines‚ and how and why did the railroads rekindle and foster the territory’s growth? Railroad development in the 1870’s Before the railroads were established in the 1870’s‚ people traveled by wagon‚ horse and on foot. They traveled for days and months to reach their destinations‚ some did not survive the trip. When the Pike’s Peak Gold rush was
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Lagos BSTRACT Generally‚ policies and strategies of Nigerian government towards foreign direct investments are shaped by two principal objectives of desire for economic independence and the demand for economic development. Multi national corporations are expected to bring into Nigeria‚ foreign capital in the form of technical skills‚ entrepreneurship‚ technology and investment fund to boost economic activities thereby‚ rising the standard of living of Nigerian. The main issues in this paper
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INSECURITY IN NIGERIA Underlying the quest for national security in Nigeria is the issue of political morality‚ which focuses on the question of defining the relationship between the state and the various groups in the society. Political morality properly construed seeks to establish and sustain the essential conditions for the smooth functioning of the state and society. It is in this light that we identify the problem of the moral basis of Nigeria’s security to be a vital imperative of national
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