article_snippet.sent: For too long, Nigeria's poor have been victims of Nigeria country's enormous wealth.
article_snippet.sent: I visited Nigeria in January and found a country under siege.
article_snippet.sent: Abuja, the capital city, is where the rich have always imagined Abuja, the capital city making Abuja, the capital city last stand.
article_snippet.sent: Yet thanks to Nigeria's oil, there is also tremendous wealth in Abuja.
article_snippet.sent: In 2010, for instance, the government awarded a $470 million contract to provide security in Abuja.
article_snippet.sent: the government is thought to have resorted to trying to purchase arms on the international black market, according to news reports -- although this is the kind of story that is hard to verify due to bans on granting visas to foreign journalists (I was in Nigeria as a consultant on a business visa).