Nigeria is an African state in the south-west of Africa. It has a large of 923.768 km² (Germany has 357.104 km²) and around 152 million inhabitants. It is independent from Great Britain since 1960, but that doesn't mean that Nigeria hasn't got problems.Quite the opposite- Nigeria has stronger problems than we have and because of this, I want to show you the biggest problems of Nigeria.
First, POVERTY.
Although Nigeria has huge oil reserves, is the second-biggest oil exporter of Africa and one of the most important supplier of the USA, Nigeria is a poor country for its inhabitants- Just a few schools, streets and no work. Only 50% of kids in the school age visit a school, in special parts of Nigeria there are no schools now.
Second,
CRIMINALITY.
Besides the normal forms of criminality, there are especially three more. There is a lot of kidnapping, either to get money or to reach political demands, there is advance fraud; e.g. a lot of money is promised if you send a special amount of money, but after sending your money, you never hear about again, and at last criminal gangs tap the oil pipelines to get oil and to sell it on the black market. Because of the poverty a lot of inhabitants are in favour of this and do the same. The problem here is especially that it's very dangerous: there are many explosions with sometimes about 100 or 200 dead people (later more!).
Besides the normal forms of criminality, there are especially three more. There is a lot of kidnapping, either to get money or to reach political demands, there is advance fraud; e.g. a lot of money is promised if you send a special amount of money, but after sending your money, you never hear about again, and at last criminal gangs tap the oil pipelines to get oil and to sell it on the black market. Because of the poverty a lot of inhabitants are in favour of this and do the same. The problem here is especially that it's very dangerous: there are many explosions with sometimes about 100 or 200 dead people (later more!).
Third,
HEALTHY.
If you are old, sick or poor and not a public servant (working for the country like police etc.), you are dependant of your family. There isn't a working healthcare- and pension system. Apart from this, there are epidemics often which have very bad consequences for the undernourished population and there are also a lot of cases of polio because of the inoculation ban (Impfverbot) which is actual in some regions of Nigeria. Another problem is that less than every second inhabitant of Nigeria has access to clean drinking-water.
If you are old, sick or poor and not a public servant (working for the country like police etc.), you are dependant of your family. There isn't a working healthcare- and pension system. Apart from this, there are epidemics often which have very bad consequences for the undernourished population and there are also a lot of cases of polio because of the inoculation ban (Impfverbot) which is actual in some regions of Nigeria. Another problem is that less than every second inhabitant of Nigeria has access to clean drinking-water.
Forth,
LOTS OF ETHNIC GROUPS.
On the first look, a lot of different ethnic groups together is great. But unfortunately it doesn't work: Some groups struggle for politic or economic power.
On the first look, a lot of different ethnic groups together is great. But unfortunately it doesn't work: Some groups struggle for politic or economic power.
While my surfing and searching I came to the conclusion that one really really bad thing is that the big oil corporations like Shell exploit the Nigerian people in an inhuman way, so the Nigerian don't profit from their own ressources. I read about the big differences between city and land (in city big wealth, on land poverty) and the desperate people whose only way is it sometimes to get criminal. Apart from this their are not a few accidents at the oil pipelines or the oil refineries, often people die because of this accidents (it seem to be around 3000 the last years). The environment is affected, too.
At last I want to give you a convincing photo:
Pictures from:
http://www.missio.de/de/jugend-und-schule/jugend-1/jugendaktion-2/jugendaktion2009/nigeria/interviews/ (woman in a 'house')
http://www.amnesty.ch/de/laender/afrika/nigeria/dok/2011/klage-shell-oelverschmutzung (shell man in front of an oil polluted place + oil polluted river)
Nice structure, Clara.
ReplyDeleteThese problems should be discussed in lessons, but we all know that cosinuns, sinus and tangens are more important than the world- problems... -.-