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    Authors have identified remote and immediate causes of the Nigerian Civil War. There were remote and immediate causes of the civil war. While the remote causes of the civil war in Nigeria are factors that imply that there were underlying factors that gradually built up overtime the tension that eventually led to the civil war, the immediate causes were simply triggers to the tension that had reached boiling point. These causes shall be summarized to include but not restricted to the following as

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    cultural diversity has always threatened the continued existence of the Nigerian nation as one entity. In the past, various opinion leaders have proffered secession as the permanent solution to internal crisis and terrorism in the country. Although Nigeria, the giant of Africa, describes her heterogeneity as a situation of “Unity in Diversity”, it has become one of violence and terror (Agbiboa). The various lines of division in the country have given rise to the current situation of terrorism – Boko

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    The largest petroleum-producing nation in Africa is Nigeria. The petroleum company is the main contributing factor of the GDP in the West African nation, which is also the continents, most noticeable and populous reserves. Since Nigeria was under British control it has suffered socio-economic and political adversities for decades. Corrupt domestic militias and complicity of multinational corporations have rid the nation of its natural resources. The same corporations that are ridding the land and

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    Shell 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

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    SOLUTIONS TO THE NIGER DELTA PROBLEMS IN NIGERIA AN ASSIGNMENT WRITTEN IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE DVS 512: TECHNOLOGY, ENERGY, NATURAL RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT BY ISU, DORATHY AKWUGO PG/MSC/07/46529 LECTURER: DR. OGAKWU INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENT STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, ENUGU CAMPUS. AUGUST 2009 BACKGROUND The Niger Delta produces the oil wealth which accounts for the bulk of Nigeria’s foreign earnings. Paradoxically however, these vast revenues

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    Nigeria is a country in the Western part of Africa. It is one of the earliest countries to be exposed to European influence. There are three major tribes, Igbos, Yorubas and Hausas. Social status in the world in very important, It is portrayed in different forms. However, it is crucially used in Africa, the Igbos exhibit their social status with titles. In Chinua Achebe’s novel “Things fall apart”, he beautifully describes the tragic fall of the Umuofia people of the Igbo tribe in the southern part

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    character Mr. Ugwu, his African family and his job. The short story’s focus is the difference between nationalities, their culture and one’s individual rights in regards to skin color and social rank. The story takes place in Nigeria. After a little research , one will see that Nigeria is a former British colony. The fact that it is a former colony plays a significant role, because of the texts theme mentioned above. Mr. Ugwu used to live with his family in Lagos, but some changes in Mr. Ugwu’s work forced

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    The European imperial and colonial influence on Nigeria was tremendous and ended up hurting the tribal traditions in the area. This is evident in books like Things Fall Apart and Death of a King’s Horseman where the traditions of the tribes were weakened by the through the British rules and laws. For example, in Death of a King’s Horseman, the play opens on Elesin needing to commit suicide based on the tribal traditions. However, the British official in the area viewed it as a barbaric and primitive

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    In Nigeria he is a kid name Okonkwo the life there in Nigeria is not the same in the U,S in that life there is not much rules how we have them. In Nigeria the religion there is Christian they do not have all different religion because they want to all have the same believed in the religion The Yoruba tribe which is the majority ethnic group in the southwest practice christianity muslim and/or the traditional yoruba religion which center on the belief in one supreme god and several lesser

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    E-PAYMENT; CHALLENGES AND EXPECTATIONS IN NIGERIA PUBLIC SECTOR INTRODUTION Trade generally involves the exchange of goods and services for corresponding abstract value like money. [1] Money is been used as an abstract way to represent value and a system for making payments. Development brought about new abstract ways to represent value, [2] this progressive trend started from the barter through bank notes, payment order, cheques and later on credit cards which climaxed to the electronic payment

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