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Nigeria is the third-most endemic country in the world for lymphatic filariasis, with an estimated 22 million cases. The Federal Ministry of Health of Nigeria, and the state ministries of health of Plateau and Nasarawa states, first invited The Carter Center to help establish a Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program in 1998. Since, The Carter Center, GlaxoSmithKline, and Merck & Co. Inc., have been working to fight lymphatic filariasis, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The aim of the program is to eliminate the disease as a health problem in the two states by 2010.
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Nigeria is the largest U.S. trading partner in sub-Saharan Africa, based mainly on the high level of petroleum imports from Nigeria. Total two-way trade was valued at $30.8 billion in 2006, a 19% increase over 2005. Leading U.S exports to Nigeria were machinery, wheat, and motor vehicles. Leading U.S. imports from Nigeria were oil and rubber products. Nigerian exports to the United State under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), including its Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) provisions, were valued at $25.8 billion during 2006, a 15% increase over 2005, due to an increase in oil exports. Non-oil AGOA trade (leather products, species, cassava, yams, beans, and wood products) totaled $1.4 million in 2006, almost double the amount in 2005.
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Nigeria has a rich literary history, and Nigerians have authored many influential works of post-colonial literature in the English language. Nigeria's best-known writers are Wole Soyinka, the first African Nobel Laureate in Literature and Chinua Achebe, the legendary writer best known for the novel, Things Fall Apart. Other Nigerian writers and poets who are well known on the international stage include John Pepper Clark, Ben Okri, Buchi Emecheta, Helon Habila, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Ken Saro Wiwa who was executed in 1995 by the military regime.
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Nigeria has enjoyed generally good relations with its immediate neighbors. A longstanding border dispute with Cameroon over the potentially oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula was addressed by International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague in 2002. The ICJ awarded most of the disputed Bakassi Peninsula and maritime rights to Cameroon, and the UN established a Mixed Commission on implementing the ICJ ruling. On June 12, 2006 Nigerian President Obasanjo and Cameroonian President Biya signed an agreement in New York on implementing the ICJ decision. Nigeria promptly withdrew its troops within 60 days.
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[T]hrough the Democracy and Governance program, CEDPA/Nigeria will lead voter education and training in the April 2007 presidential elections in the country. This work builds on more than a decade of efforts to increase women’s participation in decision making in Nigeria. CEDPA/Nigeria partnered with local community activists to mobilize and register more than 750,000 people to vote in the first Nigerian election in 1999, nearly a third of all the country’s voters. In 2003, CEDPA led a consortium that deployed 4,620 election monitors in 19 of Nigeria's 36 states in the 2003 elections. (Read more about the 100 Women’s Groups in Nigeria).
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Th 2002 FIFA World Cup in Korea Japan, saw Nigeria again qualify with optimism. With a new squad and distinctive pastel green kits the Super Eagles were expected to build on their strong performances in the 2000 and 2002 African Cup of Nations. Nigeria were drawn into group F with powerhouses Sweden, Argentina, and England. They started their first game against Argentina with a strong defence and kept the first half scoreless. However in the 61st minute Gabriel Batistuta breached the Nigerian defense to put Argentina in the lead 1-0 and win the game. Nigeria's second game against Sweden saw them take the lead but later lose 2-1.
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