Case Study1: Advanced Persistent Threats Against Rsa Tokens

Running Head: NIGERIA OIL CRISIS

Research Paper: Nigerian’s Oil Issues & Human Rights and Economic Status

Alana Smith

Armstrong Atlantic state University

Instructor: Professor Angela Overton

CRJU 2010 & CRN 20390 and 20391

University Justice

April 6, 2013

Abstract

Most countries depend on oil. States will go to great lengths to acquire an old production capability or to be assured access to the free flow of oil. Our history have provided many examples in which states were ready to go to war to obtain all resources or anything of an oil-producing region. States have become involved in conflicts over areas which may only possibly contain war resources as in other countries as well (Omoruyl, 2000). This trend is more than likely to continue in the future unto a more economical resource is discovered or hypothetically speaking until the world’s oil wells run dry. A big problem associated with the dependent on oil has an extremely damaging effect on production, distribution, and use it have on the environment. Therefore, accidents and conflicts can disrupt production or the actual goal resources, which can also result in environmental devastation. This will be discussed further in this research paper as well as the relevance of crime, human rights, and economics in Nigeria.

Who own the oil? Who is responsible for the oil mining and its effects? How is Nigeria being affected by this? Why and how long have this problem existed?

The problem of Nigeria is a case study in oil-based wealth being squandered by poor governance and internal strife. Instability in Nigeria merits U.S. attention because it is a major non-Middle Eastern oil producer (accounting for three percent of global oil production in 2001) the politics of oil has to do initially with land and later became an issue of who owns oil from the land. The answer should be traceable to the Colonial Ordinances immediately after the Second World War on “land”; and on “minerals”, which...