[War_ooc] Nigeria player

Tue Jul 15 23:28:50 EDT 2008

Hello everyone,

My name is Lee Tarnow, I'm a 22-year old electrical engineer from  
Canada, and I will be playing WAR as Nigeria. I hope to be doing  
business with all of you very shortly!

Quoting lee.tarnow at utoronto.ca:

> Nigeria 2014
>
> Political:
> Despite a highly controversial campaign, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua won the
> 2007 presidential election handily with 70% of the vote. Under
> criticism from international observers, and after having the results
> rejected by the two primary opposition parties, Yar'Adua proposed a
> national unity government. In June of 2007, the All Nigeria People's
> Party (ANPP), his main rivals, and the Progressive Peoples Alliance
> (PPA) agreed to join the People's Democratic Party (PDP) government.
> He would later declare his assets. This disclosure, which fulfilled a
> pre-election promise that Yar'Adua made, was intended to set an
> example for other Nigerian politicians and to discourage corruption.
>
> Yar'Adua quickly earned the nickname of 'Baba-go-slow' because of his
> ineffective, laissez-faire governance. Progress was slow through 2008.
> Steps were taken to fight corruption, but powerful people in
> government still interfered with business to benefit their own
> interests, damaging Nigeria's economy. Yar'Adua tried to negotiate
> with the MEND militants through 2011, but was ineffective in dealing
> with them. Attacks in the Niger Delta region continued. As well,
> Yar'Adua failed to address the issue of the nation's power supply.
>
> However, the economy grew by 41% between 2007 and 2011, and the
> general population recognized this. Though slow, it was progress, and
> the country was moving forward. In the first fair elections in years,
> Yar'Adua won a second term with 45% of the vote (the ANPP and PPA
> split 40% of the vote, the Action Congress (AC) and Democratic Peoples
> Party (DPP) split 10% of the vote, while the remaining 5% of the vote
> was split among smaller parties) and 172 of a possible 360 seats,
> forming a minority government with 9 independants.
>
> A similar style of governance was adopted from 2011 to 2014, with
> slightly better results. Power generation improved to 45 280 MW, about
> 41% of the Nigeria's target production. In response to escalating MEND
> attacks in the Niger Delta region, a state of emergency was called,
> and a brutal yet effective military crackdown occurred in June 2013.
> MEND violence has since disappeared, however serious human rights
> abuses, including politically motivated killings; the use of lethal
> force against suspected criminals and hostage-seizing militants;
> beatings and even torture of suspects, detainees, and convicts; and
> extortion of civilians was reported.
>
> Yar'Adua's health failed him in late 2013, and Vice President Goodluck
> Jonathan ascended to the presidency. The government lost a vote of
> non-confidence in early 2014, and the timid Jonathan seems to indicate
> a wide open election in 2014.
>
> Economic:
>
> Oil-rich Nigeria, long hobbled by political instability, corruption,
> inadequate infrastructure, and poor macroeconomic management,
> undertook reforms under Yar'Adua.  Nigeria's economy grew 75% from
> 2007 to 2014. The GDP stands at over $500 billion, 15% by agriculture,
> 55% by industry, and 30% by services. The labor force stands at 57.5
> million, with an unemployment rate of 5%. Recent finds in the
> hydrocarbon rich Niger Delta place proven natural gas reserves at
> nearly 6 trillion cu m, and proven oil reserves of over 45 billion
> bbl. The country is listed among the ?Next Eleven? economies, and is
> one of the fastest growing in the world with the International
> Monetary Fund (IMF) projecting growth of 9.3% in 2014 and 8.7% in 2015.
>
> Military:
> The Military of Nigeria has active duty personnel in three armed
> services, totalling approximately 98,000 troops and 94,000
> paramilitary personnel. Nigeria has continued a strict policy of
> diversification in military procurement from various countries. Before
> the lifting of sanctions by many Western nations, Nigeria turned to
> the People's Republic of China, Russia, North Korea, and India for the
> purchase of military equipment and training. The end of PDP governance
> in Nigeria may bring a shift in policy, and therefore,
> this may not reflect future armament.
>
> Foreign:
> Since independence, Nigerian foreign policy has been characterized by
> a focus on Africa and by attachment to several fundamental principles:
> African unity and independence; peaceful settlement of disputes;
> nonalignment and nonintentional interference in the internal affairs
> of other nations; and regional economic cooperation and development.
> In pursuing the goal of regional economic cooperation and development,
> Nigeria helped create the Economic Community of West African States
> (ECOWAS), which seeks to harmonize trade and investment practices for
> its 15 West African member countries and ultimately to achieve a full
> customs union. Over the past decade, Nigeria has played a pivotal role
> in the support of peace in Africa. It provided the bulk of troops for
> the UN peacekeeping mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL), the UN
> Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), and the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS).
>
> Social:
> Nigeria's current political parties are pan-national and irreligious
> in character (though this does not preclude the continuing preeminence
> of the dominant ethnicities). Nigeria's three largest ethnic groups
> have maintained historical preeminence in Nigerian politics; competition
> amongst these three groups, the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo has fuelled
> corruption and graft.
>
> There are approximately 81 million Muslims in Nigeria, 65 million
> Christians, and 15 million proponents of other religions. The country
> should be seen as having a predominantly Muslim north, a mixed
> Christian and Muslim Southwest and a non-Muslim, primarily Christian
> South East and South-South, with each as a minority faith in the
> other's region.
>
> There are four distinct systems of law in Nigeria: English law, common
> law, customary law, and Sharia law. Sharia law is used only in the
> predominantly Muslim north of the country.
>
>
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