Military manpower-fit for military service: males: 14,461,304 (1998 est.)
Military manpower-reaching military age annually: males: 1,154,721 (1998 est.)
Military expenditures-dollar figure: $685 million (1996 est.)
Military expenditures-percent of GDP: less than 1% (1996 est.)
@Nigeria:Transnational Issues
Disputes-international: demarcation of international boundaries in the vicinity of Lake Chad, the lack of which led to border incidents in the past, is completed and awaits ratification by Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria; dispute with Cameroon over land and maritime boundaries in the vicinity of the Bakasi Peninsula has been referred to the ICJ with a ruling expected in 1998; maritime boundary dispute with Equatorial Guinea because of disputed jurisdiction over oil-rich areas in the Gulf of Guinea
Illicit drugs: facilitates movement of heroin en route from Southeast and Southwest Asia to Western Europe and North America; increasingly a transit route for cocaine from South America intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets
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