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Nigeria is the country with the sixth largest Muslim population. The demographic growth of Muslim populations could mean they are in the majority by 2030. Contrary to what most news agencies purport to be true, the implementation of Sharia in parts of the North is not a recent phenomenon. What is more, the likelihood that the terrorist activity of groups such as Boko Haram will become a veritable civil war is slim. Adapted from the source document.

The maritime piracy is an old phenomenon, to define its cause is necessary a complex analysis. This article focuses in the Nigerian case and concludes that the attacks' study is one variable to understand the relation between the geographic space and the concentration of the criminal violence in the country's coast. To test the correlation with the State weakness or the population poverty is required a rigorous analysis that includes the economic and political design of the maritime piracy. Adapted from the source document.