Boko Harem, founded by Mohammad Yusuf who was executed in 2009 according to reports, is in conflict over control of the oil producing Niger Delta in Nigeria.
In 2007, the International court of justice ruled that the oil-rich Nigerian peninsula of Bakassi was to become part of what is known as anglophone Cameroon. In 1919 Cameroon was split into British Cameroon and French Cameroon. There have been reports of a lack of safe drinking water in British Cameroon where there is insurgencey.
Nigeria is the largest oil producer in Africa according to statistics, and is a member of the commonwealth. It has a unicarmel government, the senate being the upper house. The current party as voted by the Nigerian people is the APC, the all progressive congress, founded in 2013 from existing parties; but last year, amid political tensions, thirty seven members are said to have defected, mainly to the PDC, the people’s democratic party.
Issues in Nigeria are no water and protests about poverty in spite of oil wealth. In 1983, according to reports, inspectors of the state-owned Nigeria National Petroleum Company said they began to notice a slow poisoning of the water.
Nigeria has a colonial past. One struggle for independence resulted in the creation of the Republic of Biafra, formerly Southern Nigeria, which existed between 1967 and 1970. Biafra represented nationalistic aspirations for independence from the western-influenced federal government. There are reports of the deliberate destruction of agricultural land during the conflict, and blockades on food aid lead to a reported two million people dying of starvation. On 20th October 1970, Biafra officially surrendered, rejoining Nigeria.
On Monday a UK court ruling authorized that the Nigerian government owe 6.6 billion dollars plus interest that is accruing at a daily rate of 1.2 million dollars. This is connected to a failed deal concerning a western company, Process and Industrial developments limited, and a natural gas pipeline.
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