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Nigeria

living conditions

60 percent of young men in North Africa (including Nigeria) are unemployed

two thirds of the inhabitans live in extreme poverty

poor medical conditions

insufficient power supply

conflict between Boko Haram and nigerian military

crime

drug-epidemic

2017: Opioids -> death toll by overdose

Widely used is cannabis, sectatives, heroin, cocain and non-medical use of prescription opioids were also noted

aged between 25 to 39

2018: around 14,3 Million people use psychoactive drug substances

codeine-abuse under teenager

rising propensity to violence and crime

Suicide bombings

Criminal gangs tap oil pipelines and sell the tapped oil on the black market

Prepayment or advance payment fraud ("Nigeria-Conncection")

kidnappings

Islamists, bandits and the bloody peasants-herders conflict -> destabilization of Nigeria

vote rigging

pastoral assaults

one in four girls and one in ten boys affected

Church -> important identification factor (190 million Christians)

Trust in priests or preachers greater than in the state -> abuse is a taboo subject

social life

education

further school system: the Islamic school system of the Madrasas

non-payment of salaries, low motivation of the teachers and enormous numbers of strikes-> lessons are often cancelled

Schools in poor conditions

Increasing number of private educational institutions

School enrolment rate at 93 percent; only 61 percent of children still attend school

nine years of compulsory education (from 6 to 15 years of age)

health

Drinking water supply very bad

Child mortality has been greatly reduced

Ban on vaccination for religious reasons -> over 1250 polio cases (polio) in Nigeria

Epidemics, for example: Ebola fever

Low incomes, rapidly growing population and empty state coffers -> not possible to create a health and pension system

Sick, poor and old people are dependent on family support

Conflicts

Boko Haram

Government declares Boko Haram defeated -> group continues to murder (see link)

105 out of 276 abducted persons could be freed -> the rest is unclear wheather they are still alive or have been already been released (2018)

2014: "Chibok - Girls" were kidnapped by Boko Haram

Boko Haram is an Islamist terror group

between farmers and Fulani herdsman

Latest news:

Murders go unpunished

Goal: ethnic cleansing

Mass killing on Fulanis

many murders, but not being investigated

characteristics

slogan: "Unity & Faith, Peace & Progress:"

capital city: Abuja

population: 203,452,505 (2018)

official language: English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba