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Nigeria and Iran, more than a religion: the environment

2010-03-13T00:05:00.000-08:00

Nigerians' views of Iran underscore the divide over Iran between Muslims and non-Muslims. Overall opinion in Nigeria, where Muslims constitute about half the population, is evenly split (43% favorable/44% unfavorable). However, there are huge differences between the country's Muslim and Christian populations; more than three-quarters of Nigeria's Muslims (78%) express favorable views of Iran, compared with just 10% of Nigerian Christians.

Nigeria, Iran to share nuclear technology (1)

Iran has announced its plans to share nuclear technology with Nigeria to help Africa's oil producer boost its electricity output.

Head of the Iranian delegation, Mohammed Ali Zeyghami said it was his country's right to share its nuclear know-how with Nigeria, saying it is crucial to develop clean energy as fossil fuels would disappear.

The agreement was announced after a four-day meeting between Iranian and Nigerian officials in Abuja.

However, international analysts have criticized agreement, saying a deal is one of Iran's stunts to expand its nuclear weapons production. Iran has refused to comply with repeated United Nations Security Council demands to halt nuclear enrichment, a process that can be used to produce fuel for nuclear weapons or nuclear energy.

Nigeria's 140 million populations have a woeful power supply record with only a few hours of state-provided electricity per day.

In order to successfully achieve the set objectives of the National Nuclear Power Programme (NNPP) of the federal government, atomic energy experts have called for the setting up of a Nuclear Academy in the country.

The proposed Nuclear Academy, according to the experts who rose from a recent national workshop organized by the Nigeria Atomic Energy Commission (NAERC), the project should be funded by the government in collaboration with industries and tertiary institutions.

The Managing Director of Nigerian Export Import Bank (NEXIM Bank), Mr. Roberts Orya, has stressed the need for Nigeria to focus on the green economy and renewable energy in its bid to join global forces to save a world that is threatened by climate change and global warming.

Nuclear revolution held to safe energy

Describing NEXIM Bank as Nigeria's first 'green bank', Orya stated, "All prospective green economies of the world are reshaping and refocusing policies, investments and spending towards a range of sectors, such as clean technologies, renewable energies, green transportation, green buildings, waste management among others, our partnership with other stakeholders in Africa today is to support the effort to move Nigeria from its current status as a 'black economy' to a 'green economy".

He explained that "a 'black economy' is an economy that is still wholly dependent on fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum and natural gas". But NEXIM Bank's present emphasis on the 'green economy' model will focus on reconfiguring business and infrastructure to deliver better returns on natural, human and economic capital investments, which will ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions, create less waste and reduce social disparities."

At the committee level, Nigeria also made an appreciable contribution. The African Group in the Security Committee of the General Assembly led by Nigeria demanded the ratification by member-States of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) as a way of advancing the cause of the global war against the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

SOURCES:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201003010933.html

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/policy_politics/article01/indexn2_html?pdate=081109&ptitle=Nigeria At UN General Assembly: The Responsibilities, The Challenges

Globalisation in nigeria

2010-02-12T04:20:00.000-08:00

Nice to inform you again dears. We wish that this one more information will awake most of our aphatic sisters and brothers.

Today we are facing a mondial process called globalisation. Globalisation is a process that results in the growing interconnection of the world. In Nigeria and everywhere else in the world, this process have huge impacts in the cultural, economic and political domain.

ECONOMY:

Globalization affects the Nigerian economy. The oil companies especially SHELL oil became powerfull through the globalization process. Local industries collapse due to the population demands of european goods. America is known as one of the leading country in the world and this status largely influence the population demands on third world country. In addition, the media played a great role to the population socialization. It decreases considerably the population standard of living which is the reason why the IMF took the control of the economy.

CULTURAL:

Globalization is also the domination of one culture to another. The west is characterized by it's culture as well as Africa. We can notice those changes in the fashion area where europeen or american dress have more benefits. Also in food selling the same thing happen. We rarely use our traditional wheat or fruits to feed ourself. We prefere the american fast food which are in fact less nutritive.

POLITICAL:

The globalization process let to a common government system which is the one the US uses. Everybody knows that only God is a good judge. Therefore no country has the right notion of democracy. Humans are not perfect. That is to say democracy cannot be applied correctly. The US has far the most correct laws application. We have faced a lot of injustice and corruption since the beginning of the world. So if we all adopt their concept of democracy and governing, the notion of democracy which is maintain by diversity will not work at all.

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SIGNS OF A STAGNANT DEVELOPMENT

2009-10-29T14:01:00.003-07:00

HI.We are back with you to give you some information about our countries development by using facts,graphs.We wish you will enjoy and learn a lot about this part.

GNI- Gross National Income per capita (PPP$)
This indicator measures the total output of goods and services for final use produced by residents and non-residents, regardless of allocation to domestic and foreign claims, in relation to the size of the population. As such it is an indicator of the economic productivity of a nation. It differs from gross domestic product (GDP) by further adjusting for income received from aborad for labour and capital by residents, for similar payments to non-residents, and by incorporating various technical adjustments including those related to exchange rate changes over time.

Table
Year 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2003
GNI- 350 520 500 650 720 790 900

Structure of production oil

2004 0.00%

2005 4.43%

2006 4.03%

2007 0.00%

2008 -0.45%

Public debt

2003 29700000000
2004 31070000000
2005 30550000000
2006 32450000000
2007 62780000000
2008 58150000000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFgb1BdPBZo

What about interest groups

2009-10-08T12:28:00.000-07:00

We can show you two major interest group in our country.

First we have the NMA( nigerian medical association).This organisation known as the largest medical association in west Africa have as objectives to:

Ensure the medical and dental practitioners uphold the hippocratic oath
Promote health advancement and allied sciences
Promote welfare and medical interaction
Consider and express views on all proposed legislations and national issues especially those affecting health care delivery system, medical and dental education in Nigeria.

They are moving on strategies like:

Local activism for good governance in the health care sector
Advocacy of policies and programs to improve health care delivery
Aliance with UNDP(united nations development program)
Film projection and dramas organisation on the major illnesses

You can view it in the site :www.nigeriannma.org
Another interest group we choose to present you is the NBA(Nigerian bar association)

OBJECTIVES:

Use laws as an intrument for social change
Promotion and advancement of legal education
Encouragement and protection of the right of access to court at reasonably and affordable fees
Promotion and protection of the principles of the rule of law and respect for enforcement of fundamental rights,human rights and people's right

STRATEGIES:

Electoral reform
Anti corruption
Economic reform
Professional standars and ethics
Justice sector reform
Promotion of african regional human rights mechanism

You can view more information on www.nigerianbar.org

2009-10-01T12:25:00.000-07:00

UNITY AND FAITH, PEACE AND PROGRESS

Hi . our blog's name is :''federalrepublicofnigeria''.Nigeria is known as a military regime because of the constant activities and violence of the army in the population.These regime is directed by the powerfull companies that use all the ressources without paying attention to the environment and populations living there.The republic of Nigeria have an exponential population growth. It's estimated to 131 859 731 h.We observe that Nigeria has undergone many changes so it's really difficult to fixe the country political system.But in the general plan it is considered as a presidency system.We can also deduct that there is no political party because of the military impact.Recently a group of students did an ongoing strike to improve the nigerian educational system.as a result of those protest,the peace was elaborated between the minister of education and the ASUU.
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