June 17, (THEWILL) - The lawmaker representating Iseyin/Itesiwaju/Kajola/ Iwajowa Federal Constituency, Oyo State, Shina Peller, has actually disposed the All Progressives Congress (APC). Peller, who made ...
' Forgive me' Mbaka apologises for calling Peter Obi 'stingy male' Ejike Mbaka, spiritual director of Adoration Ministries, Enugu, Nigeria (AMEN), has apologised over the remarks he made about Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Celebration (LP). The cleric ...
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It is the most populous nation in Africa. It is geographically situated in between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean. It covers a location of 923,769 square kilometres (356,669 sq mi), with a population of over 211 million. Nigeria borders Niger in the north, Chad in the northeast, Cameroon in the east, and Benin in the west.
The biggest city in Nigeria is Lagos, one of the biggest cities in the world and the second-largest in Africa. Political News has actually been home to several native pre-colonial states and kingdoms considering that the second millennium BC, with the Nok civilization in the 15th century BC marking the first internal unification in the nation.
The British set up administrative and legal structures while practicing indirect rule through standard chiefdoms in the Nigeria area. Nigeria ended up being an officially independent federation on October 1, 1960. It experienced a civil war from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of democratically chosen civilian federal governments and military dictatorships, until attaining a steady democracy in the 1999 presidential election; the 2015 election was the very first time an incumbent president had lost re-election.
The three biggest ethnic groups are the Hausa in the north, Yoruba in the west, and Igbo in the east, together comprising over 60% of the total population. The main language is English, picked to help with linguistic unity at the national level. Nigeria's constitution makes sure civil liberty and it is house to a few of the world's biggest Muslim and Christian populations, all at once.