re: #559 albusteve

Nigeria’s interim leader ordered the army to restore peace in the central city of Jos yesterday after nearly 200 people were killed in three days of clashes between Christians and Muslims.

lots of oil under Nigeria…the North is primarily Muslim, and the south Christian, were the oil is

[Link: www.timesonline.co.uk…]

Nigeria is a place where the best is impossible but the worst
never happens.
—Old saying, quoted in _The Economist_, 18 April 1953

I met a British official in the interior. He had a thin
brittle voice, profound erudition, and hands like little puddings. He
said, “You must remember that this is a mad country—_quite_ mad!”
—John Gunther, _Inside Africa_, 1955

West and East Nigeria are as different as Ireland from
Germany. The North is as different from either as China.
—Obafemi Awolowo, quoted ibid