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Nigeria - Coggle Diagram
Nigeria
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Environmental Issues
Industrial Growth
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70-80% of Nigeria's forests destroyed through development, e.g. logging and industrial development
Urban Growth
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Traffic congestion, exhaust emissions e.g. Lagos
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Context
Political
Countries investing, e.g. China in construction in Abuja
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Politics
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Main exports - oil, natural gas, rubber.
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TNCs
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Shell Oil
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Employment for 65,000 Nigerian's, 250,000 in related industries
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Oil spills - pollution, soil degradation - damages agriculture and fishing
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Aid
Emergency aid - follows natural disaster or conflict - e.g. food, water, medical supplies, shelter
Development aid - long term, aims to improve quality of life they providing safe water, education, infrastructure improvements, e.g. roads
Aid in Nigeria
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Impacts
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UK - funded a health and HIV programme, providing education in rural areas.
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Aduwan Health Centre
New clinical funded by World Bank - vaccinates children against polio, tests for HIV and other infections
Quality of Life
Reasons for improvement
Reliable, better paid jobs e.g. in manufacturing
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Improvements
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However, % of population with access to sanitation facilities - 37% in 1990, 28% in 2013
Will it keep improving?
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Environmental - pollution of the Niger Delta has devastation the local Ogeni people. North is at threat from desertification
Importance
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Global
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2.7% of worlds oil, 12th largest
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