This report is based largely on a six-week Human Rights Watch research mission to
Nigeria in late 2005 that included field research in Kaduna, Kano, Plateau and Delta
states as well as interviews in Abuja, Lagos and Ibadan. During the course of that
mission, Human Rights Watch conducted interviews with a broad range of individuals
including government officials, civil society activists, community and youth leaders,
victims of indigeneity-related discrimination, and individuals who had participated in
violent conflicts between indigene and settler communities.