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. hello, i'm come all santa maria, this is counting the cost on al jazeera. you look at the world of business and economics this week, nigeria to recessions, in 4 years, youth unemployment and insecurity getting worse. but there is one growth industry, kidnapping, cheap guns flooding into the country. nigeria efforts to close the border just have not worked. then there's the sabotaged best in environmental concerns driving shell to fill up and walk away from it on shore, nigerian oil operation. and even though countries around the gulf of guinea, a stepping up security to fight off a rise and piracy, which countries still was effected. our focus this week in timing 900. ah. so it's just the one topic this week and we are very conscious that there is a lot of negative news here. but the fact is, nigeria is dealing with a lot at the moment and it is all extremely consequential. nigeria economy is not

in great shape, which means people look for alternatives. in some cases, extreme alternatives. you remember back in 2014, when the millison group booker, harass my global headlines for abducting nearly 300 school girls from the town of chip book. but it's still happening with an $800.00 students have been kidnapped in the northwest of nigeria since december. and these are separate from the islamist insurgency center on the northeast. here's some detail for you. this is from the armed conflict, location and event data project. all these kidnapping events, they've mapped out a just from the 1st 4 months of this year. that's after abduction and forced disappearance events more than doubled back in 2020 i has a different interpretation on the spot out. the pink spike that you see in 2014. that's when the book on her on she book can nothing's happened. but 20202021. so a huge increase in abductions by communal militias. those are the ones in blue and more worryingly abduction events. in the 1st 4 months of this year, i've overtaken the total for last year. so not properly dealing with insurgency and

kidnappings, as part of nigeria problem. but the government's failure to grow the economy to accommodate the population. i started making it worse. economy of 206000000 people fell into its 2nd recession in 4 years. and more than 60 percent of nigeria is working, age population is younger than 34. problem is unemployment for the 15 to 24 year olds that was 53 percent in the 4th quarter. and it was 37 percent for people age between 25 and 34. so we're going to dive into a lot of issues this week. oil piracy, they're coming up later, but we're going to start with nigeria borders. the government shut them in 2019 to restrict the flow of illegal weapons that last month. president mohammed, hurry surprised a lot of people when he said it had failed and was in fact feeling numerous conflicts. a report for math, medi drift in seminary town on the border between iberia and been this

boat market used to be a thriving commercial hub. it's now a shell of it. for myself, it was known for cheap imports like rice, automobiles, and garments. but not anymore. it's been 6 months since niger reopen, it's west and land border with been. but people like successful motorcycle dealer or more later in was a. they having to find other work to make a living. and he's not happy. you've got my tell you that, but i lose data the live. because if somebody comes in is what points you get free passage of goods on people. but i've got to do, but i know you've got that, but that is not open. you may lose. because if i shall opening to some group of people in this country, he says, such favors have ruined small businesses like hiss and by extension have had the economy. head of a local trade union agrees, know will lead to market. there's little activities at the market,

even the number of visitors reduced substantially with incomes wiped out. people stay at home and such. you can't get the taxes as you know, the residency, even passenger traffic is not what it used to be. the motor closure was meant to reduce the import of food items, encourage domestic growth, and stop the smuggling of firearms. and ellison got into an idea. but after one on harvey, the president admit, said more arms came in urine, the bank raising questions as to what it actually achieved. what fishers, however exist, shut down was a resounding success. as there is cross border cooperation and shedding of intelligence on smuggling. there were more of the jaws of her previous says i terms, i would have found their way into the country through illegal rules and order. they were also arrest of migrants which could have complicated to give this to each other. but in force in the border or

has made it more expensive to live in communities like semi people. he has a numerous checkpoint to hurting the transport. titian of good from across the border and other parts of nigeria. the government reopen. it's borders just as the free trade agreement facilitated by the african union was coming into force. but months later, business activity here has yet to pick up. my job as government has accuse its neighbors of endangering not only the economy, but also security, said weapons and ammunition still flow across the borders to feed it ever growing conflict. so let's piece all of this together. then the government's been fighting vocal, harassed in the northeast, there is an ongoing conflict between nomadic capital who is in crop farm is in central and southern regions. there is a separate rebellion in the southeast. what is all of his doing to nigeria will. here is some mattie to help us out. he's the director of the,

a boucher school of social and political thoughts and it's great to have you with us the overall insecure situation right across the country. how much of this, in your opinion actually rests with the government? or is this just such a big problem that it actually, it's almost too big to get a hold on? well, i think our government because on 2 levels of national level, the failure did you have a governor periods of buddhism of social and economic goods means that does steve competition for available resources. and then that is compounded by this system of governors. that's fair in wish government trends to understand it. and what does of equity and justice in, denton, you know, kind of consensus among what good needs and trust among citizens. so failure in the printer, government to groups do different prices to, to create

a sense of belonging to leave the road. it says of the south fictional status of this sub level, south south, south, south west of the country. we see that it will fail of public and government must indefinitely go on my teeth. is it good? but also in the current and i agreed and essentially we real this connection between the people governance and they saw the state police and that's what give us to start press. so primarily, this is the feel there is some suggestion that the failure to act against some of those communal militia, which we talked about earlier, is because the president is part of those is why do you put any weight into that? i think there is, i mean if you look at, before it became present present to 15 in the previous election,

he had kind of flowed himself spokesperson for their laps and then get into power. he did not try to could that says of even this, the book he, he spoke against because i'm being asked for for dinner. say again, was both as the book on the books present time because government as a way to power the image again, he did not have in the way to manage the price is dependent on spoken. i guess we have some as well as taking them. so something to do with this child is in a sense it's bundling with a degree what a policies and then probably saw so just a perhaps referred to perception that yes, been maybe he didn't. and of course that show you some degree

in. so just to not do it, you know, the apple i bought was a, was, was a repeat to prescribe before these rise of violence. well, probably participation was nobody to do, man, man that adopt, told before in the global federalist, how did of shirley prescribe as tell groups in niger, we have the nigerian federation, the whole country. we also have a lot of different regions of there is again, some suggestion or talk about the idea that some regions could withdraw like side to be off for a region. i mean could, could they, could they survive on their own? i think you said when i was talking about but sufficient so many years after the civil war. that was very good. i think there's also some degree of cause issues because it's that we are better to get it. i would say the last 6 years i

tend and says most so for example, the public book is it was really absent to add it led by son joseph george. now seeing radicalization and in fact, bam is sometimes look, but the lips are lead us when it is separate, it's close in mind and i get the problem. the sink is credible. it's credible what we need to do at the level of national leadership. that risk is obviously the country, the prisoners insisted that this doctrine is losses. gifts, whereas famines and perhaps good public support for some of his good devil, shall this be. but primarily that i just, it is fallen. but i'm also pointed out, i wasn't in my muscle in politics recreating showing

everybody feels good because of it. and just, but i guess to me didn't for granted these, they know $1000000000.00. beach was the last game shifting and the government is go back to the center and chris sent you distrust they come, you know, dancing credibility in the us momentum. so let's move away from the security side of things and talk about the economy. you mentioned it before, the lack of jobs. well in fact the insecurity which creates this poor economic condition and the lack of jobs. how does nigeria turn that around? the population is growing. how do we get to a point where actually those youth in nigeria will have jobs and will have something to look forward to the lack of integral, punish nick? the failure of the government to increase. i have freedom economy freedom. if

it continues to be one of the worst support actually research. and if i had a policy like minimum wage level rights, i'm only just as so track to driving economic way. so does that. we're going to fill 7000000 people. i didn't want to go, but the last couple of years, just 100000000 to be to go. so since here is the broad one is policy, the need to go back to real economic? what is the target economic, where been the credit will put in its job creation is you can have job creation when i must've said that she has world is not focusing on production. because shandra cross direct tv to the concrete is what is driving the car. doctor, you kind of have an economy we asked it's good to fit our lives revenue and the

incentive to create revenue for so for, but we are not a political kind of me and therefore job creation. this didn't stimulating i messed up. the job creation will be real deceptive, ever loading that part of the center and cynthia levels didn't get progress that could promote it. this could be going to expect mission arises, what would it cost and to failure and the moment to failure. as in the last 20 years, but i want to heighten on that is a sam mattie with his thoughts on nigeria is economic future. sam, thank you so much for your time. thank you. the right, so security or lack all of it seems to be at the heart of a lot of nigeria issues and that extends to arguably it's most important sector. oil rolled out shell is that it wants to fill it's on shore oil facilities in

nigeria because of all the sabotage and theft. shells already sold a handful of its own shore oil blocks in the niger delta over the past decade because of community unrest and continued attacks on its oil installations that come with its own subset of knock on effects if you like. in january, she was ordered to pay damages to farmers after an appeals court in the hague, found its nigerian subsidiary was liable for oil spills in the delta. more than a decade ago, shell is argued, the spills were caused by sabotage. and that it shouldn't be held accountable for the dealings of a foreign subsidiary, but environmental groups of argued shall, was to blame, at least for the poor maintenance and security of the oil pipes. let's build on this now with energy analyst. 4 more. okay. you know, who is worked in the niger and effective for more than 2 decades now. great to have you with us and your, your expertise on this topic shells withdrawal. let's talk about that 1st. is that necessarily a bad thing?

are there not local companies who could actually see this as an opportunity? arm shows the drawer is, is bad for the industry in my area. and what our me to a local company staff. they will not be able to fill in the gaps shells leaving. they're going to create because they do not have the capacity to absorb volume that's shown to produce. don't forget, that shell has been upon our company, the industry in my area. and they can talk to about 60 percent. it's not more often than us production of oil and gas. their local companies will. ready not be able to seal the shoes of shell, they're pulling out ok. and it blames the issues of sabotage and oil theft for the reason that it is leaving. i mean how much responsibility and we always talk about

responsibility whether it fits with the company or. ready with the government on a security level, the issue or sabotage is real and it bite, it buys both the companies and the government. ah, but when it comes to a personal bullying that's particularly want to look at food to our parson. blame too. but because a question i've been asked this way, all the blames will go to the government. because i'll tell and the pipeline found the line decision is able to happen. because there's no security for the infrastructure. and shell, or any of the oil companies, whether not for renewal companies or the local companies, are not in the business of switching beyond the business of exploration and

production of oil and gas. and so you couldn't laid blame for it. she turned to dependent issue on any business where that you'd be shell, be made, manufacturing, company, and business. so that blame goes squarely 100 percent on the government. and what about carrying fund wrong? was there not some oil legislation that the nigerian government has failed to pass? would that have made a difference? is a legislation that time on events have about taken? it's been about 21 years coming. and somehow because of legislation that there was so much talk about it now, and somehow we managed to get ourselves stuck in the past that didn't exist where we are, the moments match the piece of legislation redundant and the problem of the oil and gas industry pre bates that legislation and to just

narrow it down to one piece of legislation on who simon's already passed. anyways. ok. it's, it's to oversimplify the issue really. ready oil is and this could be in so many countries, it's either a blessing or a curse or perhaps a little bit of both nigeria case what happened to the oil wealth, has it been squandered? has it been lost? is it when i just look at the overall economic situation of the country and think about how much money can come in from oil. there's a disconnect there. yes, there is. there is a disc about and there are reports after reports by many institutions, both local and international that has exposed this disconnect that you're talking about the other day. i was looking at a report from the world bank about that 2001 or 2003,

they're about and they made such claims about corruption, you know, being responsible for. ready for stuff your thing is this, the disconnect is there you did, you did ask what happens at wells, the wells that down. but you know, the thing with production wells is the age as well. and over time, the volume of crude or gas able to guess from them will be depleted. however, missouri has made so much money from oil and gas and it doesn't show on the streets . it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't show on, on, on the how would i put it now? yeah, exactly. doesn't show in everyday life for people there and they are the people who don't have, you know, end up wondering why, why are we not in a better situation? why has that money been squandered? how did it happen?

suburban question, how, how did it happen? well, it went into it went into private pockets of some of some of the broods runs in the country that it will, it will, it will take us hours if we want to go deep into this. and there is also the issue of not reinvesting into the industry. i mean, for example, as far back as 2015, those of us in the industry knew that there was a serious lack of investment that was required for industry at the time. and you don't, you don't get something out of nothing. if you don't invest well then something you're not going to get returns. and somehow we do that selves to believe that, oh yeah, we're always going to have rails. and so we're always going to money. well,

but that's, that's the height of job insurance because aisle is a depletion resource. and apart from the fact that is a depletion results where we are in the world today, some of the biggest concern myself in the west are beginning to greg wallace shipped away from sources. well, images source. i would do an absolutely nothing about it. i worry that it might get to a point in my country where i would have to be drinking on a la south because the rest of the world no longer meets the commodity goodness a fascinating talking to you for my. okay, you my thank you so much for your time. really appreciate it. thank you for having me. and finally, piracy countries around the gulf of guinea are stepping up as secure. he trying to fight off a sharp rise and attacks by pirates. it's actually not the most dangerous area in the world for that with nearly half of all the attacks this year. and in areas stretch from, from senegal in the north,

to angola in the south. but of the 13 countries which have coasts on the gulf of guinea, it is nigi area, which is one of the worst effected once again, i made interest with our report this time for the port city of lake off the nigeria tests out new equipment soon to be deployed, it's the it's an arsenal of ground. air and sea vessels and equipment designed to tyco pirates operating in the gulf of attacks in the region have grown in number and sophistication of the past 5 years. is very difficult to advocate. but our target is to see as 0 tolerance of my time is security within and beyond. out one to 2. we have a complete gamble of land at the approach that can handle the issue of the insecurity.

countries in the region lose nearly a $1000000000.00 annually to pirate attacks. many a carried out in nigeria waters, many countries in west africa and the gulf of guinea have tied the maritime security to that of the continents biggest economy and for good reason, a significant number of the 32 attacks carried out in the 1st quarter of 2021 happened in nigeria standard total water's ship operators. hope with the countries deployment of additional vessels like this. 17 interceptor boats 10 aircraft including groans, will help to keep the number down. in addition to the loss of lives and equipment, many businesses have closed. there was a time in the country that we had almost time, right. the problem was due to the out of the, the pirate. and the last

a lot of business do you who's out on reno, nevada, on to and she says getting them back will be hard as new threats a merging we have that come from you room and i mean, they feel i'm children respond and they respect remote in right on the on red minus ship operators navigating the gulf of guinea. now pay insurance premiums, similar to what's paid by those in wars owens. forcing some to avoid the region altogether. officious nigeria, i hope the import security force will restore confidence in merchants once again play the gulf of guinea. and that is our show for this week, but i want to know what you think and what you want to see on the show as well. you can tweak o d m may come all a j 8th. the hash tag is

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