problems of research in Nigeria and Africa?
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Research fails in Nigeria and Africa for the following reasons:\n1.  Limited access to libraries, laboratories and IT facilities.\n2.  Limited funding for research and few research grants.\n3.  Lack of Infrastructure.\n4.  Lack of political will to support research.
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I don't think that this is necessarily an African problem.  I think that in order to successfully cultivate a democracy that the people have to have a deep inner desire for that democracy.  They have to want it to work.  In a lot of countries we're trying to do some nation-building, and in such we're trying to help other countries become democracies, but that only worked for us because we wanted it.  We can't force it on people as we're finding out all over the world.  If there are people against a democratic form of government (and if the people who are for it aren't for it strongly enough), then there are too many ways they can muck it up for everyone else.
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I'm not sure if Lagos is sub saharan, but heres a topic that I used for my Human impact on the environment course last semester. "City-states do not have internal sources of resources causing their average biological footprint to increase dramatically. Although this problem can be dealt with in industrialized nations, will it be possible for third world megalopolous' (like Lagos) to sustain a marginal standard of living?" Thats not verbatim because I can't remember it completely but you hopefully get the idea
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Water ... the most basic need of living creatures.  Water issues are causing war in Northern Africa.  This is the number one problem with North Africa.  The lack of water and water rights are causing civil war, genocide, poverty, sickness, and death.  When we see Africa getting attention with millions in desert climate, and dust everywhere this is the cause of water rights and civil rights.  Since plumming is not available in regions, there is the issue of dealing with waste: human waste <pooh>, decomposing bodies, and food waste... something the modern world has and it's so normal that we often forget to be thankful for our sewer systems!!!\n\nAlso, helping the citizens of Africa find peace with their sexuality is very important.  Sexuality is causing Aids and other STD's ... girl children giving birth far too young causing harm to their bodies ... sexual slavery is a major problem in Africa as well.  Additionally, basic medical treatments like vaccinations, and aspirin are needed in Africa.
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Nigeria's international image suffered greatly due to the arrest and subsequent corruption investigations of the son of the former Nigerian dictator, Sani Abacha in 2000. There were almost 20 banks involved in this corruption, with money laundering figuring greatly. \n\nAlso, Nigeria was notoriously reluctant to adopt anti-money laundering legislation, and did so only under great pressure from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) at the eleventh hour in 2002. \n\nHope this information helps.
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First of all GDP isn't the best measure of development, look at the United Nations Development Programme Human Development report, and they use a Human Development Index.  According to that on the African continent (excluding the wealthier islands of Mauritius, Seychelles, Maldives and Cabo Verde) the most developed country in the continent are the arab countries of Libya and Tunisia, followed by Egypt, then South Africa and Equatorial Guinea.  These are the UNDP rankings.\n\nLooking behind the figures, I'd say that actually Tunisia is doing best in the whole of the African continent, far beyond South Africa (89the for Tunisia 120th for South Africa) SA has a high infant mortality and HIV/AIDS rate (21.5%!!!).  Highest HIV/AIDS rate is in Botswana a horrifying 37.3%.  Other countries in Southern Africa have high GDP including Botswana and even Zimbabwe, but the high HIV/AIDS rate affects all other development indicators so much that it pulls the country down in the human development report.  \n\nSo yes, South Africa is the richest and most developed in Sub-Saharan Africa, but they have a huge problem with HIV/AIDS.  Gabon is probably the richest simply because it's an oil exporter and has a very small population of about 2 million people.  Government there is notoriously bad, so it's not likely to develop much further any time soon.  Better government is usually found in countries with a larger population and regular elections like Ghana, Senegal, Mozambique, and even Nigeria now.  \n\nNow looking at Sub-Saharan Africa the situation is trickier, since the indicators don't give away which country has the best prospects to develop further.  Depending on how the AIDS crises develops there are two scenarios, either Southern Africa sinks in human development or AIDS is tackled (which can be done with the drugs already available) and it starts to grow.  Otherwise I have a feeling that countries like Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, and the small countries like Gabon, Equatorial Guinea etc will lead the way.  Even Angola has a more limited AIDS rate of 3.9% and a relatively high GDP of 900$ so it can start growing much faster if proper government is in place.
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I don't have a website, but check with your government. I live in China and there are a lot of Africans here who are studying all sorts of things, including medicine. Most of these are on scholarships offered by their countries. China is a cheap place to live and go to school, so your chances of getting a scholarship to this country as opposed to a country like the US is much greater. I have to say, I've never met any Nigerians here, but there are bound to be some.
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nigeria is corrupt. Lot of scammers live there...\nBeware of unsolicited letters or emails from a Nigerian or other foreign government official requesting assistance in the transfer of excess funds from a foreign country into your bank account.
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Nigerians are the problem of Nigeria.
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I know it is a country in Africa that has a huge population. Unfortunately, I have forgotten everything I learned about Nigeria in high school, so I don't have a special opinion. Every country has its bad and good sides.
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Probably not Africa, few enough national governments there are stable or organized enough to fully exploit a resource like that. I am Canadian, so I'll have to pick the home team.
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Africa is an extremely rich continent. It's natural resources have been barely touched. Unfortunately for the Africans its wealth is held by very few and is used to make other people and nations rich.
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charity work in Africa
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The biggest problem of private and public investment in Nigeria is the poor grammar used in the emails trying to scam very ignorant people on the Internet.\n\nFortunately for the Nigerian spammers, there's now a resource available to help you "write better emails, make more moneys."  See the link below.\n\nSee the link below.
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South Africa interestingly enough.... they still have a lot of work to do!!
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space research is just a research to locate more speific life beyond our planet. However the people do not care about whats happening in our planet. Diseases are spreading killing almost a million or more each year, and economic losses due to spending money on useless things rather then useful things like charity or helping the homeless kids in all parts of the world. Africa and India is mainly homeless children, where at least a child dies every sec due to diseases or other serious conditions. Money is the only thing that could buy these children homes and food n other basic needs of life then people should be helping not spending money on space research where they are not helping anybody with anything. First they consider saving their own planet then beyond the planet. thats all =)
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here is a ranking of african universities \n\nhttp://www.webometrics.info/top100_continent.asp-cont=africa.htm\n\nand another ranking\nhttp://www.socialcapitalgateway.org/eng-rankingafrica.htm\n\nlooks like University of Capetown is on the top