Areas of Concern
Some areas that were of concern included:
- Politics - Stable democracy with a federal system, rule of law, political accountability.
- Economy - Decrease on oil dependence (now over 90% of country's export earnings) and increase in GDP.
- Education - Better educated population (now, only 50% of children between 5 and 24 enrolled in primary, secondary, and higher education).
- Urbanization - Nigeria has a high urban increase rate (5-7%) and growth needs to be managed. Rural development should be stressed.
- Unemployment - very high in Nigeria; recently bankers and doctors have become unemployed.
- Infrastructure (internal framework) - poor electricity, telecommunications, fresh water supply.
- Corruption - a history of military leaders have resulted in corruption for personal gain at the expense of the people. Prebendalism is common for head-of-state military rulers.
- Women inferiority - women generally have greater health problems and less education facilities than men. The literacy rate of adult women is significantly low.
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