IT COUNTRY STUDIED: NIGERIA INTRODUCTION Nigeria‚ officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria‚ is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory‚ Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west‚ Chad and Cameroon in the east‚ and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. There are over 500 ethnic groups in Nigeria of which the three largest
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INJUSTICE IN NIGERIA Over the years and growing up in the dusty sahara threatened landscape of Kaduna {in mid Nigeria}‚ I have often lamented the fate of prisoners who are stripped of their freedom of movement for specific periods of time {and in some glaring cases of inhumanity of man.. for unspecified and unspecific periods}. My young and then innocent mind concluded that depriving prisoners of their freedom as it presently obtains carries along with it a collateral dehumanization of the prisoners
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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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The history of HIV and AIDS in Nigeria The first two HIV cases in Nigeria were identified in 1985 and were reported at an international AIDS conference in 19866. In 1987 the Nigerian health sector established the National AIDS Advisory Committee‚ which was shortly followed by the establishment of the National Expert Advisory Committee on AIDS (NEACA). At first the Nigerian government was slow to respond to the increasing rates of HIV transmission7 and it was only in 1991 that the Federal Ministry
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concerning the administration‚ academic education‚ training programs and the lack of material and human resources‚ were reported. As a result of this study 14 recommendations are listed to improve university athletics and‚ by doing so‚ sport in general in Nigeria. Thus‚ they demand an improvement of physical education in secondary schools‚ the establishment of departments of physical education at all universities and better facilities and more frequent competitions for university athletes. • CiteULike
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Stakeholders in Sustainable Business Transformation Charmaine Catroppa Thompson Rivers University Open Learning ADMM 460: Business and Society Assignment 3: Research Report on Issues Related to the Construction of the Three Gorges Dam and the Sustainable Development Initiatives of Royal Dutch Shell. Student #: 100098805 September 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS Part A: Discussion Case on “Damming the Yangtze River” 3 Conflicting Social Costs 3 Conflicting
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The Positive and Negative Effects of Globalization in Nigeria Globalization according to Clark and Wallace (2003) refers to a “greater interconnectedness of the world’s financial‚ economic‚ technological‚ political‚ cultural‚ sociological‚ ecological‚ and geographical systems” (p. 447). Globalization has various effects both positive and negative on the countries that choose to achieve the worldwide connection. In the case of Nigeria‚ which is classified by the U.S Department of State as a developing
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POVERTY AND INSURGENCY IN NIGERIA: THE BOKO HARAM CHALLENGE. ABSTRACT: This paper aims to study the insecurity in Nigeria which is widely caused by Islamic sects known as Boko Haram in Nigeria and its effects on security. This paper will also find if there is a connection between poverty and Insurgency that has led to a great unrest in Nigeria‚ the aim of writing is
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Factors Influencing Education in Northern Nigeria Introduction The aim of every country in establishing the quality education starts in the availability for all. A well developed country promise much more of the other countries can promise in terms of quality education. Sometimes‚ the countries that have a good quality of education usually serve better opportunities. On the other hand‚ the developing countries are still on planning to catch up with the other successful countries. This
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Agreement has been implemented ten years after it was signed and six years after Nigeria ceded the Bakassi Penisula to Cameroon : Going by the procedural rules of the International Court of Justice ‚ ICJ by October 10 this year Nigeria will lose its right to appeal against the judgment of the International Court of Justice‚ ICJ‚ which had in 2002‚ ceded the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula in Cross River State‚ Southern Nigeria to the Republic of Cameroon. By the terms of the 2005 Green Tree Agreement
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