EXTRACT: Many British residents work in the oil and gas sector for companies such as Shell, living on fortified compounds in the delta region, where they face the threat of kidnap by local militants. The armed gangs, who claim their communities reap no benefit from oil riches, have kidnapped about 60 foreign oil workers this year, all of whom were released without harm.
Saturday January 27, 2007
Nigeria
Population: 131,530,000
British population: 16,000
From the chaotic, traffic-choked flyovers of Lagos to the sweltering creeks of the oil-rich delta, few expats see Nigeria as a cushy posting. Elsewhere in Africa, westerners enjoy epic scenery and wildlife safaris, but Nigeria offers the sultry, malarial climate of the west African coast, combined with a wobbly infrastructure and a notoriously corrupt state. In Lagos, the commercial capital, expats cluster in the affluent districts of Ikoyi and Victoria Island – the latter is the local equivalent of Manhattan, where fishermen in pirogues skim past high-rise office blocks. read more
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