Talk:Economy of Nigeria

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I'm really sorry, I made a mistake in putting italian version here.... can someone correct it? I don't know how to do it.

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[edit] Nigeria Airways

It is worthy of note that Nigeria Airways has now been liquidised and the title of the natioanl carrier has now been sold to virgin Atlantic.

[edit] Types of crude oil in Nigeria

Types of crude oil in Nigeria has been sitting around doing nothing since its AfD in September 2005 - over a year and a half ago. The result was "no consensus." Is this worth merging? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Strangerer (talk • contribs) 00:48, 5 April 2007 (UTC).

I just looked at the article and it doesn't seem there's much there. It should probably just be tagged AfD again. --D 21:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Alternative data source

I believe there is more current and accurate information at the Central Bank of Nigeria at this site: http://www.cenbank.org/OUT/SPEECHES/2007/Govadd14-5-07.pdf. The gdp and most economic indicators are way off base. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.16.190.55 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Entries on Advance fee fraud

I have removed the re-inserted edit below:

Nigeria is also the home of the Advance fee fraud (a.k.a. 419 scam and "Nigerian scam"), which nets the country a significant amount of money [1] [2]. The United States Secret Service stated that the scheme generates hundreds of millions of dollars every year [3]. Insa Nolte, the director of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department, stated that "The availability of e-mail helped to transform a local form of fraud into one of Nigeria's most important export industries." [4].

These statements are inaccurate and misleading - "nets the country a significant amount of money" implies that this is a government or business supported economic activity. "Insa Nolte, the director of University of Birmingham's African Studies Department" - Ms. Nolte is a junior academic at the Centre of West African Studies of the University of Birmingham (http://www.cwas.bham.ac.uk/staff/) whose academic credentials and experience are limited to socio-political research. Furthermore there is already a comprehensive article dedicated to this subject. The neutrally of this edit is suspect. Ajisekanla (talk) 13:25, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

I told Aji to discuss this on Talk:Nigeria - I will leave this alone for now, but the info on "Nigeria" has been reverted. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:26, 24 November 2007 (UTC)