odities: machinery, chemicals, transport equipment,
manufactured goods, food and live animals

Imports - partners: UK 11%, US 9%, France 9%, Germany 7%, China (2000)

Debt - external: $32 billion (2000 est.)

Economic aid - recipient: ODA $250 million (1998)

Currency: naira (NGN)

Currency code: NGN

Exchange rates: nairas per US dollar - 115 (January 2002), 101.697
(2000), 92.338 (1999), 21.886 (1998), 21.886 (1997)

Fiscal year: calendar year

Communications Nigeria

Telephones - main lines in use: 500,000 (2000)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 200,000 (2001)

Telephone system: general assessment: an inadequate system, further
limited by poor maintenance; major expansion is required and a start
has been made domestic: intercity traffic is carried by coaxial cable,
microwave radio relay, a domestic communications satellite system with 19
earth stations, and a coastal submarine cable; mobile cellular facilities
and the Internet are available international: satellite earth stations
- 3 Intelsat (2 Atlantic Ocean and 1 Indian Ocean); coaxial submarine
cable SAFE (South African Far East)

Radio broadcast stations: AM 83, FM 36, shortwave 11 (2001)

Radios: 23.5 million (1997)

Television broadcast stations: 3 (the government controls 2 broadcasting
stations and 15 repeater stations) (2002)

Televisions: 6.9 million (1997)

Internet country code: .ng

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 11 (2000)

Internet users: 100,000 (1999)

Transportation Nigeria

Railways: 3,505 km 1.067-m gauge standard gauge: the right-of-way have
seriously reduced the capacity and utility of the system; a project to
restore Nigeria's railways is now underway (2001)

Highways: total: 193,200 km paved: 59,892 km (including 1,194 km of
expressways) note: many of the roads reported as paved may be graveled;
because of poor maintenance and years of heavy freight traffic - in
part the result of the failure of the railroad system - much of the road
system is barely usable (2001) unpaved: 133,308 km

Waterways: 8,575 km note: consisting of the Niger and Benue rivers and
smaller rivers and creeks

Pipelines: crude oil 2,042 km; petroleum products 3,000 km; natural
gas 500 km

Ports and harbors: Calabar, Lagos, Onne, Port Harcourt, Sapele, Warri

Merchant marine: total: 43 ships (1,000 GRT or over) totaling 331,094
GRT/614,171 DWT note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as
a flag of co