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REPUBLIQUEDU CAMEROUN REPUBLIQUE OF CAMEROON Paix - Travail - Patrie Peace - Work- Fatherland ------- ------- CABINET CIVIL CABINET CIVIL ------- ------- CELLULE DE COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION UNIT HIGH-LEVEL VISITS BETWEEN CAMEROON AND NIGERIA Visits of Nigerian Heads of Visits at the ministerial level State to Cameroon - The Vice - Prime Minister, Amadou Ali has visited - President Goodluck JONATHAN participated in Abuja on many occasions as a Special Envoy of the Summit of Heads of State and Government the Head of State. on Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of - The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Guinea, which took place in Yaounde on June Philemon Yang represented the Head of State 24-25, 2013. during the centenary celebrations of the Nigerian - President Goodluck JONATHAN’s first trip Federation on February 27, 2014 in Yaounde. He abroad was in Cameroon on May 20, 2010. This also participated in the International Conference was during celebrations marking Cameroon’s on Peace, Security and Development, which was 50th anniversary of independence. Two former organised during the event. Nigerian leaders; Mr OLUSEGUN OBASANJO - Mr. Rene Emmanuel SADI, Minister of Territorial and YAKUBU GOWON were also present in the Administration and Decentralisation, paid a visit event. to Abuja on March 15, 2014. He was a Special - President-elect His Excellency Alhadji Umaru Envoy of the Head of State to his Nigerian Musa YAR’ADUA paid a courtesy visit to counterpart H.E. Goodluck JONATHAN. Cameroon on May 12, 2007. - Minister Rene Emmanuel SADI was bearer - President Olusegun OBASANJO paid two visits to of a message from H.E Paul Biya to President Cameroon (1999 and 2004). Muhammadu BUHARI on June 23, 2015. President Paul Biya’s Visits to Nigerian ministers have also been in Cameroon. Nigeria For example: - President Paul Biya visited Nigeria in 1983 and - H.E. OJO MADUEKWE, Nigeria’s Minister of 1991. Foreign Affairs. - He attended the Commonwealth Summit in Abuja - H.E. Nuruddeen Muhammad, Minister Delegate in 2003. at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was a Special - He was present at the swearing-in ceremony of Envoy of the President of Nigeria to his President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003. Cameroonian counterpart. - He took part in the inauguration of President - H.E. Ambassador AMINU Bashir Wali, Minister of Yar’Adua on May 29, 2007. Foreign Affairs was a Special Envoy of President - President Paul Biya equally attended celebrations Goodluck JONATHAN to President Paul BIYA on marking the 50th anniversary of Nigeria’s February 28, 2015. independence on October 1, 2010 in Abuja. 1 REPUBLIQUEDU CAMEROUN REPUBLIQUE OF CAMEROON Paix - Travail - Patrie Peace - Work- Fatherland ------- ------- CABINET CIVIL CABINET CIVIL ------- ------- CELLULE DE COMMUNICATION COMMUNICATION UNIT PRESENTATION OF NIGERIA I- General information - Population growth: 2.8%. - Life expectancy: 52 years. - Official name: Federal Republic of Nigeria. - Literacy rate: 61.3%. - National motto: Unity and Faith, Peace and Progress. - Local languages: at least 250 (Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, - National Anthem: Arise Oh Compatriots, Nigeria’s Edu, Kanuri, Tiv and Fulani). Call Obey. - Date of independence: October 1, 1960 (from the - Religions: Islam (50% in the north), Christianity (40% United Kingdom). in the south), animism (10%). - Independence Day: October 1. - Human Development Index: 152nd on 187 (UNDP). - Form of government: Federal Republic (36 federated states and a federal capital territory in Abuja). - President: H.E. Muhammadu Buhari (elected on Economic data March 28, 2015). - Vice President: Yemi OSINBAJO. - Currency: Naira. - Official language: English. - GDP: US$ 574 billion (according to the IMF in 2014). - Major political parties: the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC), and the People’s Democratic Party Nigeria is the 1st economic power in Africa. (PDP). - GDP per sectors: Services such as banking, insurance, housing, and trade (52%), oil and gas industry (14.4%), agriculture (22%), other industries Geographic data (11.6%), film and music industry (1.42%). - Per capita GDP: US$ 2,710 (IMF 2014). - Location: West Africa (around the Gulf of Guinea). Nigeria shares its territorial boundaries with Benin - Growth rate: 6.3% (IMF 2014). (west), Cameroon (east), Niger (north), and Chad - Inflation rate: 8.1% (IMF 2014). (northeast). - Trade balance: US$ 47 billion surplus (WTO 2013). - Total surface area: 923,968 km2 (ranked 32nd in the world). - Main customers according to the WTO in 2013: - Neighbouring countries: Cameroon, Niger, Benin and European Union (35.6%), USA (16.9%), India Chad. (11.1%), Brazil (7.5%), China (5.6%). - Capital: Abuja (since 1991). - Major suppliers according to the WTO in 2013: - Main cities: Lagos, Ibadan, Benin City, Kano, Port European Union (23.3%), China (21.5%), USA Harcourt etc. (13.6%), India (8%), Brazil (8%). - 1st African oil producer. Demographics - Cameroon’s 1st trading partner. - Population in 2014 stood at 177 million inhabitants. Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and Other data the 7th in the world. This is made up of Hausa-Fulani (29%), Yoruba (21%), Igbo (18%), Ijaw (10%), Kanuri - Mo Ibrahim Index on Governance in Africa: 37th (4%), etc. on 52 in 2015. - Population density: 192 inhabitants per km2. - Doing Business 2015: 170th on 189. 1 - Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI): The reintroduction of civil rule was established on Nigeria was declared complaint on March 1, 2011. October 1, 1979 with the election of Alhaji Shehu Next validation date is February 26, 2016. SHAGARI. His rule ended on December 31, 1983 - Transparency International ranking in 2014: 136th out in a coup led by General Muhammadu BUHARI. On of 175. August 27, 1985, General Buhari was ousted from power by General Ibrahim Babangida Badamassi, who propagated the return to democracy and civilian rule. II - Political History Initially scheduled to take place on January 2, 1992, Northern Nigeria was dominated for over 600 years presidential elections finally took place in June 1993. by the Kanem Empire (until the 14th Century), and the Chief Moshood ABIOLA was widely considered winner of Kanem-Bornu Empire by the Lake Chad area (at its the polls, which were cancelled by President Babangida peak in the 16th Century). due to widespread irregularities. USMAN Dan FODIO merged most areas in the north to However, General Babangida voluntarily left office on the Islamic empire of Sokoto in the early 19th Century. August 26, 1993 and was replaced by Chief Ernest SHONEKAN, a civilian chosen by the military. He too The United Kingdom established a legal status for the resigned and was replaced by his vice, General Sani Royal Niger Company in 1886. In 1900, this territory ABACHA on December 1993. was divided into several protectorates, and was made a colony in 1914. Coming to power on June 9, 1998, after the death of SANI ABACHA, General Abdulsalami ABUBAKAR opened a In response to the rise of nationalism after the Second new political era in Nigeria marked by electoral reforms, World War, the British created a representative and the organisation of general elections (municipal, government in 1951, while the federal constitution was governorship, senatorial, and presidential). recognized in 1954. On February 27, 1999, retired General Olusegun Nigeria gained independence on October 1, 1960. The OBASANJO was elected president with 62.78% of the country was divided into three autonomous regions: vote cast against Chief Olu FALAE (43.72%). He was North, West and East. re-elected in 2003 after winning 61.90% of the votes against General Mohammadu Buhari’s 32.20%. Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi- Ironsi, an Igbo origin came to power through a January General elections (local, governorship and presidential) 1966 coup d’état, but he was assassinated in July of April 14 and 21, 2007 led the PDP’s Umaru Musa 1966. Leaders of the new coup restructured the federal Yar’Adua to power, with Vice-President Goodluck Ebele government with the creation of 12 states. Igbos suffered JONATHAN. The latter was appointed Acting President from a bloody reprisal in 1967, which led to secession after the hospitalisation of Yar’Adua in Saudi Arabia who with the creation of the “Republic of Biafra”. This was passed away on May 5, 2010. Goodluck JONATHAN, in followed by a war that ended on January 12, 1970. accordance with the constitution, took oath the next day, becoming President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. A bloodless coup brought MURTALA RAMAT MOHAMMED to power in 1975. Although he promised President Goodluck JONATHAN was elected a return to democracy, he was killed in a failed coup for a five-year term on April 9, 2011. Cameroon on February 13, 1976. He was replaced by General was represented at his swearing-in ceremony Olusegun Obasanjo. by the President of the National Assembly, Right Honourable Cavaye Yeguie DJIBRIL. 2 Although a source of hope, Mr Goodluck JONATHAN 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Borno State on April 14, was disputed by the opposition due to the extent of 2014. A summit devoted principally to Boko Haram widespread corruption in Nigeria. For example, the was held in Paris on May 17, 2014. It was attended disappearance of US$ 20 billion crates of the NNPC by the Heads of State of Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, oil company. Benin, Chad, France, and representatives from the USA, Great Britain and the EU. The meeting The insurrection of the Boko Haram movement in the concluded with several decisions to strengthen Federated States of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa was regional cooperation and international action in the another challenge President Goodluck Jonathan war against Boko Haram, and to protect victims faced during his stay in power. The inability of the (see details on Conclusions of the Paris Security federal government to end the insurgency has been Summit on Nigeria). These resolutions are being criticised worldwide. The Boko Haram terrorist implemented progressively. group led by Abubakar SHEKAU took control of two thirds of Borno state and has been threatening the The mobilisation of the Lake Chad Basin Commission northern part of Cameroon.