1. Nigeria

4. Three main ethnic groups Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo

14. Former President Olesugun Obasanjo

18. December 2006 Umaru Yar’Adua in Abuja, Nigeria, after winning his party’s presidential nomination.

30. Late May 2007: Nigeria’s new president, Umaru Yar’Adua, took office in Abuja. After a history of military coups, Mr. Yar’Adua’s inauguration was the country’s first peaceful transition of power between civilians.

34. Oil in Nigeria

38. Ken Saro-Wiwa Leader of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People Executed by Abacha’s govt in 1995

46. Protests Against MNCs

47. Women Protest Against ChevronTexaco

48. Movement for the Emanicipation of the Niger Delta MEND

51. Terrorists or Freedom Fighters?

52. Macon Hawkins of Kosciusko, Tex., an employee of a pipe-laying company, was a hostage of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta.

53. Nigerian peacekeepers arrive in Liberia

55. The issue of ethnic violence implementation of Sharia law

56. Ethnic Violence Continues

57. Feb. 2006 The body of a Muslim victim of the violence lay outside a ruined mosque as a member of a local gang looked inside. Attacks on Muslims in the south of Nigeria followed attacks on Christians in the north.

59. A mosque was destroyed by Christian rioters.

60. A clip from Al-Jazeera on Boko Haram “Western education is Sin” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VN_7A3mNKg

68. CPI 2007

69. VP Goodluck Jonathan takes over for ailing president in February 2010 Pictured in dark hat

70. Meeting with Obama Jonathan is from the Niger Delta region