Nigeria Case Study

• tertiary industry is service jobs (doctors, teachers etc)
• primary industry is where people remove raw materials from land or sea (farmers)
• secondary industry is where people process and refine raw materials (oil refinery)
• quaternary industry is where people provide information and research (ICT workers)
• nigeria is located on the western coast of africa, it is located above the equator and below the tropic of capricorn
• nigeria has a tropical climate meaning it is warm all year round and has both dry and rainy seasons
• the largest city in nigeria is lagos with a population of 21 million people, it is the largest city in africa
• nigeria is important because it provides 2.7% of the worlds oil and supplies countries as big as USA, it is the hub for finance, telecommunictions and media (nollywood)
• nigeria is critical to africa's development as a continent, it has a huge manufacturing sector (3rd largest in africa) and a huge agricultural sector (70% of the population)
• nigeria faces corruption, major transport issues (little public service and extremely busy roads), issues with gangs and violence, littering and pollution (causing diseases) and unreliable electricity
• nigeria's developing due to its rapid advances in technology and sciences, they have a great concern for the environment, many speak english increasing the growth of telecommunications
• shell oil is one of the world's largest oil companies, since the discovery of oil in the niger delta 1958 the operations have been extremely controversial
• the swampy river delta is one of the most difficult places to harvest oil in the world, shell has invested huge amounts of money to try work around the hazards from extracting huge amounts of oil
• a transnational corporation (TNC) is a huge company that does business in several countries
• many TNCs are much richer than the entire countries in the less developed world - they can provide work and enrich the local economy OR exploit their workers with low pay and slowly destroy the environment
• advantages of TNCs for nigeria:

  1. companies provide employment and skill learning
  2. more money is spent in the economy
  3. investment in local infrastructure and education
  4. valuable export revenues earned
  5. other local companies benefit from increased orders
• disadvantages of TNCs for nigeria:

  1. local workers are poorly paid
  2. working conditions are poor
  3. management jobs go to foreign employees
  4. much of the profit generated goes abroad
  5. grants and subsides used to attract TNCs could've been used to invest in nigerian industry
• unilever employs 1500 people in nigeria - they're aimed at growing the nigerian market and the development of brands to improve peoples QoL
• unilever works with local communities/markets to develop new products and aims to achieve high standards of employment and environmental stewardship
• oil exports provided £30.9 billion of government money but per person that equal £183 per year (their economy is not fair)