Nigeria

official language: English, Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba

population: 203,452,505 (2018)

capital city: Abuja

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

between farmers and Fulani herdsman

many murders, but not being investigated

Mass killing on Fulanis

Goal: ethnic cleansing

Murders go unpunished

Latest news:

Boko Haram

Boko Haram is an Islamist terror group

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

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)

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

health

Sick, poor and old people are dependent on family support

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

Epidemics, for example: Ebola fever

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

Child mortality has been greatly reduced

Drinking water supply very bad

education

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

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

Increasing number of private educational institutions

Schools in poor conditions

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

further school system: the Islamic school system of the Madrasas

pastoral assaults

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

Church -> important identification factor (190 million Christians)

one in four girls and one in ten boys affected

vote rigging

rising propensity to violence and crime

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

kidnappings

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

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

Suicide bombings

drug-epidemic

codeine-abuse under teenager

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

aged between 25 to 39

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

2017: Opioids -> death toll by overdose

conflict between Boko Haram and nigerian military

insufficient power supply

poor medical conditions

two thirds of the inhabitans live in extreme poverty

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