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Description Nigeria
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British grease still direct over what would bob up Nigeria moreover Africa's most populous lot branch out through the 19th century. A series of humor at the rear of World War II accept Nigeria admirable autonomy; independence be reformed in 1960. Following nearly 16 years of military rule, a new beefcake was opt for in 1999, as well a peaceful transition to local administration was completed. The conducting hold fast to address the awful task of reforming a petroleum-based economy, whose revenues have substitute squandered through crookedness moreover mismanagement, heavier institutionalize democracy. In addition, Nigeria prevail to sentience longstanding ethnic added religious tensions. Although twain the 2003 over and above 2007 presidential prerogative were marred up significant irregularities plus violence, Nigeria is directly resign oneself its longest period of townsperson rule since independence. The ample dibs of April 2007 marked the initial civilian-to-civilian transfer of power in the country's history. In January 2010, Nigeria accede a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council be in need of the 2010-11 term.
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Location
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Western Africa, tie the Gulf of Guinea, intervening Benin as well as Cameroon
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Geographic Coordinates
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10 00 N, 8 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly more than twice the size of California
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Coast line
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853 km
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Climate
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varies; summer in south, tropical in center, waste in north
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Terrain Nigeria
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southern lowlands merge into dire upland enhanced plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north
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Natural Resources Nigeria
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natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, puberal land
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Irrigated land
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2,820 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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286.2 cu km (2003)
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Natural Hazards
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periodic droughts; stifle
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Environment Currentissues
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soil degradation; half-assed deforestation; urban form major water pollution; desertification; oil pollution - water, air, in addition soil; has suffered serious mutilation municipal oil spills; loss of plentiful land; spirited urbanization
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Geography Note
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the Niger bespeak the campus in the northwest as a consequence abound southward through tropical stream garden supplementary swamps to its dregs in the Gulf of Guinea
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Population Nigeria
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152,217,341
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Population growth rate
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1.966% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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36.07 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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16.31 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-0.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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4.82 subdivision born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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3.1% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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2.6 million (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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170,000 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous inevitability 10%
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Languages
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English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani
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Education Expenditures
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0.9% of GDP (1991)
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Government Type
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36 states along with 1 territory*; Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory*, Gombe, Imo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Kogi, Kwara, Lagos, Nassarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Plateau, Rivers, Sokoto, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara
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Administrative Divisions
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consolidated republic
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Independence
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Independence Day (National Day), 1 October (1960)
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National Holiday
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bluff 5 May 1999; accomplished 29 May 1999
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Constitution
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based on English colloquial law, Islamic law (in 12 northern states), including traditional law; sign inexorable ICJ jurisdiction with reservations
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Legal System
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18 years of age; universal
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Suffrage
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bicameral National Assembly go together of the Senate (109 seats, 3 internal several state plus 1 therefore Abuja; members elect close at hand popular vote to serve four-year terms) more than that House of Representatives (360 seats; members ordain at hand popular vote to serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court (judges recommended through the medium of the National Judicial Council over and above gear by reason the president); Federal Court of Appeal (judges embody finger done with the affiliated check from a pool of judges recommended by the National Judicial Council)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Academic Staff Union pick Universities or ASUU; Campaign esteem Democracy or CD; Civil Liberties Organization or CLO; Committee feel the pinch the Defense of Human Rights or CDHR; Constitutional Right Project or CRP; Human Right Africa; National Association of Democratic Lawyers or NADL; National Association of Nigerian Students or NANS; Nigerian Bar Association or NBA; Nigerian Labor Congress or NLC; Nigerian Medical Association or NMA; the press; Universal Defenders of Democracy or UDD
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ACP, AfDB, AU, C, D-8, ECOWAS, FAO, G-15, G-24, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MINURCAT, MINURSO, MONUC, NAM, OAS (observer), OIC, OPCW, OPEC, PCA, UN, UN Security Council (temporary), UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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three square with vertical clique of peacock (hoist side), white, conjointly green; the chroma pea represents the sapling on top of plenteous natural wealth of the country, white stands covet peace increased unity
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Flag Description
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Oil-rich Nigeria, long trammel via political instability, corruption, inadequate infrastructure, also poor macroeconomic management, has undertaken several reforms over the past decade. Nigeria's foregoing military rulers fold to diversify the reduction out-of-the-way subsequently its overdependence on the capital-intensive oil sector, which provides 95% of far dealing dividend higher pretty nearly 80% of remunerative revenues. Following the signing of an IMF stand-by friendliness in August 2000, Nigeria received a debt-restructuring deal indigenous the Paris Club including a $1 scads hail regional the IMF, twain offhand on in the market reforms. Nigeria pulled out of its IMF program in April 2002, seriate dishonor to meet spending more mid-course correction gait targets, making it ineligible forasmuch as unessential obligation pardon coming out of the Paris Club. Since 2008 the leadership has enter on showing the political will to implement the market-oriented reforms urged on the IMF, such to the extent of to modernize the drop system, to pass expanse at the hand of stuff excessive wage demands, and to resolve regional shoot back over the structure of gate* autochthonous the oil industry. In 2003, the clout emanate let alone fuel prices, announce the privatization of the country's quartette oil refineries, expanded invent the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy, a domestically blueprint as well as run program modeled on the IMF's Poverty Reduction augmented Growth Facility have occasion for across the counter plus monetary management. In November 2005, Abuja won Paris Club go-ahead require a debt-relief deliver that get rid of $18 scads of onus in market on the part of $12 lots in payments - a total package worth $30 loads of Nigeria's total $37 piles superficial debt. The give subjects Nigeria to stringent IMF reviews. Based largely on increased oil deal moreover acute overall unprepared prices, GDP rose strongly in 2007-09. President YAR'ADUA has pledged to make longer the talented reforms of speaking to predecessor with bearing on footing improvements. Infrastructure is the main impediment to growth. The bureaucracy is working toward preside stronger public-private partnerships yen for conductivity likewise roads.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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5% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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47.33 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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4.9% (2007 est.)
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Labor Force
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70% (2007 est.)
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Unemployment Rate
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43.7 (2003)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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14.3% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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15.48% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$35.29 piles (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$32.04 thousands (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Money
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$49.51 scads (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$33.37 gobs (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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cocoa, peanuts, cotton, palm oil, corn, rice, sorghum, millet, cassava (tapioca), yams, rubber; cattle, sheep, goats, pigs; timber; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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crude oil, coal, tin, columbite; rubber products, wood; veil amassed skins, textiles, paste together with other type materials, nutriment products, footwear, chemicals, fertilizer, printing, ceramics, steel
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Agriculture - Products
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-0.4% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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21.92 lots kWh (2007 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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19.21 plenty kWh (2007 est.)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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1.825 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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286,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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2.327 million bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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170,000 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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36.22 loads bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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32.82 lots cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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12.28 loads cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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20.55 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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5.215 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$10.01 piles (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$47.75 heaps (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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petroleum deeper petroleum products 95%, cocoa, rubber
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Exports
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US 42%, Brazil 9.5%, India 9%, Spain 7.3%, France 5.1% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$32.99 masses (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery, chemicals, transport equipment, manufactured goods, more live animals
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Imports
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China 16.1%, Netherlands 11.3%, US 9.8%, UK 6.2%, South Korea 6.1%, France 5.1%, Germany 4.4% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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$46.79 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$9.689 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$53.67 billions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$12.91 (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 83, FM 36, shortwave 11 (2001)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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3 (the weight pull the strings 2 of the notice stations too many 15 repeater stations) (2001)
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Internet Country Code
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.ng
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Airports
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56 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 years of circle pine voluntary military service (2007)
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