Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 30,808,598 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 17,698,911 (2002 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 1,375,112 (2002 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: $374.9 million (FY01)
Military expenditures - percent of GDP: 1% (FY01)
Transnational Issues Nigeria
Disputes - international: Nigeria disputes several villages with Benin along the Okpara River, and only 35 km of their common boundary are demarcated; the Benin-Niger-Nigeria tripoint remains undemarcated; Lake Chad Basin Commission urges signatories Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria to ratify delimitation treaty over lake region, the site of continuing armed clashes; oral arguments on the land and maritime boundary disputes between Cameroon and Nigeria were presented to the ICJ; disputes center around Bakasi Peninsula, where armed clashes continue, Bouram Island on Lake Chad, and the maritime boundary and economic zone dispute in the Gulf of Guinea, which also involves Equatorial Guinea; Nigeria requests and Chad rejects redemarcation of boundary, which lacks clear demarcation in sections and has caused several cross-border incidents
Illicit drugs: a transit point for heroin and cocaine intended for European, East Asian, and North American markets; safehaven for Nigerian narcotraffickers operating worldwide
This page was last updated on 1 January 2002
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