A rather rare exception can be seen in the Jordan River, for which the base level is the Dead Sea, 417 m below modern sea level. If a river is dammed, a new base level (the level of the reservoir) replaces the ultimate base level. As a result, the streamâs base level is raised.
HOW TO REDUCE CORRUPTION IN NIGERIA. The establishment of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as well as the Code of Conduct Bureau and its Tribunal is a laudable start on the war against corruption.
Study has unveiled that poverty has increased in Nigeria, with about 100 million people living on less than a $1 (Â£0.63) a day, after all Nigeria experiences significant economic growth. (BBC News Africa, 2012) The effects of poverty in Nigeria include: high death rate, increased crime rate and illiteracy. Firstly, due to poverty, Nigerians experience a high death rate. Death rate is a measure of the total demise in a populace, scaled to the span of that populace, for every unit of time.