The European Union has approved four million euros to help Nigeria and Cameroon demarcate their borders properly, DPA reported. The E.U. Commission said in a statement issued in Abuja Friday that the money was part of efforts to advance the implementation of a 2002 ruling by the International Court of Justice at The Hague. It said the money would augment an earlier contribution of three million dollars made by both Cameroon and Nigeria for the same purpose. Border demarcation and a dispute over ownership of the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula - at the maritime border - were the reasons why Cameroon took Nigeria to the International Court of Justice at The Hague from where it got judgment against Nigeria in October 2002. The court ceded a substantial part of the peninsula to Cameroon, but ordered it to cede part of its territory to the north, to Nigeria.
