The government of Nigeria is comprised of a constitutional state that is held together with 36 individual states. There are over 500 different ethnic groups in Nigeria which leads a vastly diverse population. This is also a reason why they have so much violence in the country.
For example, today, there was a bomb blast at a bus stop that killed over 71 people. On march 13 a gun man on a motor cycle shot and killed over one hundred people for no real rhyme or reason.
On march 6th 4 gay men were beatin in public for being Gay. Then in January 24 another 17 people were shot and killed in their village.
Nigeria is constantly faced with violence, miry because they are culturally separated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/13/gunmen-on-motorbikes-kill-villagers-nigeria_n_4958821.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/06/nigerian-gay-men-whipped-_n_4913190.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/24/nigeria-village-attack-_n_4659962.html
Monday, April 14, 2014
Monday, April 7, 2014
Hiding the poor with multi-million dollar stadiums
Most would think that if the biggest touring event in the world comes to your country you would be happy. It would bring massive amounts of business, it would jump start any economy... However this is not the case in Brazil.
In 2005 the GDP of Brazil was a low five hundred billion dollars, in 2013 it is sitting right around two point 5 trillion dollars. Showig that the wold cup has be only helping the country on the finaccal frount.
Yet people have not been able to stop fighting over the matter. Even FIFA is fighting with the country of Brazil non stop over the delayed progress of the stadium.
It seams like the bottom line is that the people are poor and the country is poor and instead of spending this mass of capital on the people and bettering their lives. The Government is spending twenty six billion dollars alone on buildings.
However we could look at all of this as an investment to the country itself. With everybody traveling to Brazil all at once. It will give Brazil a chance to show off what they have and use this to make more money and possible turn the country around on an economic standpoint.
In 2005 the GDP of Brazil was a low five hundred billion dollars, in 2013 it is sitting right around two point 5 trillion dollars. Showig that the wold cup has be only helping the country on the finaccal frount.
Yet people have not been able to stop fighting over the matter. Even FIFA is fighting with the country of Brazil non stop over the delayed progress of the stadium.
It seams like the bottom line is that the people are poor and the country is poor and instead of spending this mass of capital on the people and bettering their lives. The Government is spending twenty six billion dollars alone on buildings.
However we could look at all of this as an investment to the country itself. With everybody traveling to Brazil all at once. It will give Brazil a chance to show off what they have and use this to make more money and possible turn the country around on an economic standpoint.
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