First, the opinions shared in this post are simply my Hypotheses. Readers are urged to engage their discerning Minds after reading.

Taking control of Nigeria will bring a lot of benefits to the USA and Europe's ailing Economy at this point in time. Since Russia has helped a lot of the Sahel Regions break free from the USA and France's puppet-leader colonization tactic, now the Economy of these Western Countries are suffering because they dont have access to the free Mineral Resources from these African Countries anymore.

However, these Western Countries have realized a surprising turn of event in their favour. This is the fact that while the likes of Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso are booting these Western Colonizers out of their Land (after seeing them for who they truly are), some uninformed Citizens of Nigeria: A Country rich in Oil and Mineral Resources, are praying for the West to come Colonize them, because they believe Western Colonizers are their only hope of getting the kind of "good life" that the Citizens of Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, et al were enjoying under the puppet-leader colonization of this same West. If in doubt of my Claim, please read the comments from this post I made https://www.nairaland.com/8079227/europe-may-secretly-planning-invade to confirm for yourself.

The West knows that taking control of Nigeria will be a big boost for their Economy at this point. Nigeria has huge Oil and Rare Minerals Reserve which is sufficient to fuel the Western Economy of the USA and their EU lapdogs for years to come.

But wait, things are a bit different now you might think. Some Nigerians will even say The West can't just march down to Nigeria and easily massacre any resistance group like they did during the gun-boat diplomacy. Nigeria has a Military that also uses Guns now. The West are 'civilized' people now, they wont repeat what their forefathers did in the past again in Nigeria.
If you are one of such people, follow me as we go through the reality of things.

Nigeria as it stands today has lots of 'Cracks' because Water and Oil were locked into a bottle by Lugard in 1914 in order to make it easy for the UK to Divide, Conquer and Rule the Country even after the 1960 'Flag Independence'.
Due to these 'Cracks', a sitting President 'may likely' allow Foreigners carry out illegal activities and inhuman treatment within any region of the Country, so long as it is a Region that does not speak same Language or share same Religious Belief with the sitting President. The West knows this, therefore, if they plan to take control, the will need to first implement two Stages within Nigeria:

1) First Stage is to entice a sitting President to allow the establishment of a USA or UK or France Military Base in a region of Nigeria that does not speak same Language or share same Religious Belief with the sitting President. With the Western Military base on ground in Nigeria, all the Islamic Jihadists (ISIS, Boko Haram, Bandits, et al) can now have easy access to Western Weapons to wreak Havoc on the Resource-Rich parts of Nigeria. Now the Western Military men in Nigeria can sit in their military base and use Drones to plan and implement their logistics for the siphoning of Nigeria's Resources to the West under the guise of 'fighting against Islamic Terrorists' in Nigeria.

2) Second Stage is the final takeover where they will manage to unseat the sitting President either through hijacking the Presidential Election, OR (if they can get the connivance of the Vice President) using one of their Secret Assasination tactics (Medical assasination through a Doctor or Aviation Assasination through a Plane/Helicopter Crash) to Assasinate the President. Either way, Nigeria will end up having a new puppet-President that is answerable to the West. At this point, the puppet-leader colonization tactic will come into full effect in Nigeria. For instance, if the price of Crude is being sold for $70 per Barrel in the global Market, Nigeria will be selling hers to the USA and Europe for $2 per Barrel because that is what the Puppet-President has Signed.


But this wont happen anyway. Nigeria has gotten so developed and her Citizens have become so smart and Intelligent for the West to attempt such tactic on.

Ningishzida:

But this wont happen anyway. Nigeria has gotten so developed and her Citizens have become so smart and Intelligent for the West to attempt such tactic on.

It also won't happen because USA does not want Nigeria. All they want is that you buy American, which we already do to their delight.

In fact, it kind of makes the "importation of coal to Newcastle" a true statement.