Nigeria: a country devastated by its "wealth"

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Nigeria: a country devastated by its "wealth"
Source: The Lighthouse on the World
The Nigeria it is a country larger than France and Germany combined, with above 170 millions of inhabitants who lead a miserable life (54% of the population below the poverty line) despite being above a sea of petrolium (extraction, although slowed down by many problems, it is approximately two ml of barrels per day) and say gas; and said incidentally, this is where 80% of tax revenues come from and the 95% of exports, because the rest is the desert. The GDP, which is the second largest in Africa, it is divided in the most unequal way not only among the people (the rich are there, yes!), but also between regions (which are called states there) and region and between ethnicity and ethnicity. And there are many ethnic groups in this state (circa 250!) cut, like many in Africa, based on the whims of the colonialists (they were English there); the most important are five: Comment (21% of the population), Igbo (18%), and Ijaw (10%) who are in the south; Hausa Fulani (20%) it's Kanuri (4%) who are in the north. Read More

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