Nigeria Case Study

Question 1

Nigeria Social Issues

Answer 1

-Squatter settlements with poor access to facilities and essentials
-Conflict between locals due to competition for success and jobs

Question 2

Nigeria Environmental Issues

Answer 2

• 70-80% of forests have been destroyed through logging, farming and urbanisation
  -In teased energy consumption meaning more greenhouse gases released and more fossil fuels burnt
  -Poor waste disposal
  -Desertification due to dams
  -Oil spills

Question 3

Why does Nigeria need aid?

Answer 3

• 60% of people live on less than $1 per day
  -High birth rate and infant mortality
  -Low life expectancy
  -Highest death rate from Malaria

Question 4

Aid in Nigeria

Answer 4

• World bank approved $500 million to fund development to prevent dependence on oil for money
  -USA agreed to educate and protect people against AIDs
  -Nets for Life distribute anti-mosquito nets and educate people against malaria

Question 5

Why is aid not working in Nigeria

Answer 5

-Donations may be politically influenced
-Promote commercial self-interest
-Corrupt government

Question 6

Changing political and trading relationships in Nigeria

Answer 6

• Trading with Britain for 300 years (Transatlantic Slave trade)
  -Britain had bought Palm oil since slavery became illegal
  -Late 19th Century Nigeria joined the British Empire before leaving in 1960
• Trade with UK, USA, China, India and EU countries
  -In 2014 China invested $12 billion in a 1400km coastal railway and $10 billion in oil field exploration and drilling

Question 7

China Investment in Nigeria

Answer 7

-In 2014 China invested $12 billion in a 1400km coastal railway and $10 billion in oil field exploration and drilling

Question 8

Positives of Shell in Nigeria

Answer 8

-Main source of Investment
-6000 direct jobs (90% Nigerian people)
-20,000 indirect jobs
-Provides healthcare for 250,000 people
-Provides 3,000 people scholarships

Question 9

Negatives of Shell in Nigeria

Answer 9

-Oil flares (illegal)
-Exploitative wages
-Oil spills damage the local environment and reduce agriculture
-Social unrest (theft, sabotage n violent crimes)

Question 10

Bodo oil spill

Answer 10

• In 2018 2009 to oil spills occur in Bodo in the River Delta
  -Up to 17.5 million liters of oil spilt
• Oil leaked into Rivers creeks killing fish and reducing livelihoods
• Local people took legal action against shell for 53 million