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Nigerian vice president visits violence-hit city
KANO, Nigeria – Nigerian Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday urged his countrymen to "stop the carnage" of religious violence after a visit to a
Nigerian naval helicopter crashes; 4 feared dead
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria – A Nigerian naval spokesman says one of its helicopters crashed in the Niger Delta, likely killing the four people onboard.Commodore David
Senate debate on Nigerian leader's health inconclusive
ABUJA – Nigerian senators' marathon closed door debate on President Umaru Yar'Adua's health was inconclusive on Tuesday, the lawmakers' spokesman said.The parliamentarians expected to wind
Police: 326 killed in Nigeria religious violence
JOS, Nigeria – Sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims in central Nigeria left 326 people dead last week, a state police commissioner said Monday, pledging ...
5,000 displaced after violence in northern Nigeria
JOS, Nigeria – The Red Cross says violence between Christians and Muslims in the city of Jos in northern Nigeria has displaced 5,000 people and ...Nigerians protest president's absence in capital
ABUJA, Nigeria – Hundreds of Nigerians concerned about the ill president's long hospitalization abroad protested in the capital Tuesday after the leader said in a ...
British refugee elected king in Nigeria
A businessman from Derbyshire has been crowned king of a Nigerian province. Christopher Ejiofor fled to Littleover from Nigeria as a war refugee nearly 40 years ...
Nigeria Begins Another Round of Elections amid Uncertainty over President’s Health
Nigeria begins another election cycle in three weeks with a governorship race in the southeastern state of Anambra. But the month-long absence of President Umaru ...
NNPC, big headache to Govt – Finance Minister
LAGOS — The Minister of Finance, Dr. Mansur Muhtar has said that the downstream sector of the Nigerian petroleum industry is haemorrhaging as a result ...
How Jonathan runs FEC meetings
Some members of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) are beginning to adjust to the reality of the long absence of President Umaru Yar’Adua from the ...
MEND breaks ceasefire rule, attacks Shell/Chevron pipeline
WARRI – ABOUT 35 militants, belonging to the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND), armed with rocket launchers, heavy calibre machine guns and ...
I’ll liberate Anambra – Soludo
THE reinstated gubernatorial candidate of the ruling People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Anambra state , Professor Charles Soludo has attributed his victory at the Supreme ...
Nasarawa State
Nasarawa State is a state in central Nigeria. Its capital is Lafia. HistoryNasawara was created on October 1st, 1996 from the (today neighboring) Plateau State.GeographyNasarawa State ...
Kebbi State
Kebbi State is a state in north-western Nigeria with its capital at Birnin Kebbi. The state was formed from part of Sokoto State in 1991. ...
Lagos State
Lagos State is an administrative region of Nigeria, located in the southwestern part of the country. The smallest of Nigeria's states, Lagos State is the ...
Zamfara State
Zamfara State is a state in northwestern Nigeria. Its capital is Gusau and its Governor is Mahmud Shinkafi, a former member of the All Nigeria ...
Yobe State
Yobe State, a mainly agricultural state, is located in Northern Nigeria. Created on August 27, 1991, Yobe state was carved out of present-day Borno State. ...
Taraba State
Taraba State is a state of Nigeria, named after the Taraba River which traverses the southern part of the state. Taraba's capital is Jalingo. HistoryThe state ...
Sokoto State
Sokoto State (formed in 1976) is a state in north-western Nigeria. The state is named after its capital Sokoto, a city with a long history ...
Rivers State
Rivers State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Port Harcourt. It is bounded on the South by the Atlantic Ocean, ...
Plateau State
Plateau State is the twelfth largest state of Nigeria, and is roughly located in the center of the country. Its capital is Jos. Plateau State ...
Oyo State
Ọyọ State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria, with its capital at Ibadan. It is bounded in the north by Kwara State, in the ...
Osun State
Ọṣun State is an inland state in south-western Nigeria. Its capital is Osogbo. It is bounded in the north by Kwara State, in the east ...
Ondo State
Ondo State, Nigeria was created on 3 February 1976 from the former Western State. It originally included what is now Ekiti State, which was split ...
Nigerian inflation inches higher to 12.4%
LAGOS – Nigeria's annual inflation climbed to 12.4 percent in November 2009 from 11.6 percent in the preceding month, owing to rising food prices, the ...
Ogun State
Ogun State is a state in South-western Nigeria. It borders Lagos State to the South, Oyo and Osun states to the North, Ondo State to ...
Niger State
Niger State is a state in the western part of Nigeria and the largest state in the country. The state capital is Minna, and other ...
Kwara State
Kwara State is one of the 36 states of Nigeria. Its capital is Ilorin and its governor is Bukola Saraki. The primary ethnic group of ...
Kogi State
Kogi is a state in the north-central zone of Nigeria. It is popularly called the Confluence State because the confluence of River Niger and River ...
Katsina State
Katsina State is a state in northern Nigeria. Its capital is Katsina, and its governor is Ibrahim Shema, a member of the People's Democratic Party. ...
Kano State
Kano State is a state located in North-Western Nigeria. Created on May 27, 1967 from part of the Northern Region, Kano state borders Katsina State ...
Kaduna State
Kaduna State is a state in central northern Nigeria. Its capital is Kaduna.GeographyHistoryThe state is the successor to the old Northern Region of Nigeria, which ...
Jigawa State
Jigawa State is a state in central northern Nigeria. Its capital is Dutse.LocationJigawa State is one of thirty-six States that constitute Federal Republic of Nigeria. ...
Imo State
The state is made up of two lakes ABADABA Lake in Elugwu Nkwumeato , Ihitte/Uboma L G A and Oguta Lake in Oguta LGAImo State ...
Gombe State
Gombe State, located in northeastern Nigeria, is one of the country's 36 states; its capital is Gombe.Gombe State, nicknamed the 'Jewel in the Savannah', was ...
Enugu State
Enugu State is a mainland state in southeastern Nigeria. Its capital is Enugu, from which the state - created in 1991 from the old Anambra ...
Ekiti State
Ekiti State is a state in southwest Nigeria, created on October 1, 1996 alongside five other new states by military dictator General Sani Abacha. The ...
Edo State
Edo State is an inland state in central southern Nigeria. Its capital is Benin City. It is bounded in the north and east by Kogi ...
Ebonyi State
Location and OverviewEbonyi State is a mainland south-eastern state of Nigeria, populated primarily by Igbos (95% of population). Its capital and largest city is Abakaliki. ...
Delta State
Delta State is a state in Nigeria, typically comprising of the mainly Igbo (Anioma people), Urhobo, Isoko, Ijaw, Itsekiri. The whole ethnic-groups that comprise the ...
Cross River State
Cross River State is a coastal state in southeastern Nigeria, bordering Cameroon to the east. Its capital is at Calabar, and it is named for ...
Borno State
Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. Its capital is Maiduguri. The state was formed in 1976 from the split of the North-Eastern State. ...
Benue State
Benue is a state in North-central Nigeria with a population of about 2.8 million in 1991. Tiv, Idoma, and Igede are spoken predominantly. There are ...
Bayelsa State
Bayelsa State is a state in southern Nigeria in the core Niger Delta region, between Delta State and Rivers State. Its capital is Yenagoa. The ...
Bauchi State
Bauchi State is a state in northern Nigeria. Its capital is Bauchi. The state was formed in 1976 when the former North-Eastern State was broken ...
Anambra State
Anambra is a state in south-eastern Nigeria. Its state theme is "Light Of The Nation" Its boundaries are formed by Delta State to the west, ...
Akwa Ibom State
Akwa Ibom is a state in Nigeria. It is located in the coastal south-Southern part of the country, lying between latitudes 4°321 and 5°331 North, ...
Adamawa State
Adamawa is a state in northeastern Nigeria, with its capital at Yola. It was formed in 1991 from part of Gongola State with four administrative ...
Abia State
Abia State is a state in southeastern Nigeria. The capital is Umuahia, although the major commercial city is Aba, formerly a British colonial government outpost. ...
Bank Chief Nabbed Over Possession Of $3.1 Million At Lagos Airport
A combined team of Lagos Airport Police Command, the State Security Service (SSS) and the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) Aviation Security ...
Aba Ingenuity-people’s Creativity Rebuilds Banned Okada In Aba To Tricycles
Aba ingenuity•People’s creativity rebuilds banned okada in Aba to tricycles By IKENNA EMEWU (ikenna@sunnewsonline.com)Saturday, December 5, 2009 •Goods onlyPHOTO: THE SUN PUBLISHING Living ...
As Christmas approaches, wealthy Igbo rush to move aged parents out of kidnappers’ reach
Luxury buses waiting to take people home for XmasEast and west, as the saying goes, home is the best. But it seems that this ...
Lagos Evicts 3000 Beggars
The Lagos State Government has evacuated 3,000 beggars back to their various states and neighbouring countries in the last nine months.Special Adviser to ...
Internet Usage In Africa: Nigeria is Second
Nigeria seems to have improved in internet presence. Not bad, we seem to have much more users than SA, with all the high speed broadband ...
Egypt Vs Nigeria - African Nations Cup 12 Jan 2010
Countdown to the showdown!!!Nigeria takes on Egypt at the 2010 Nations Cup. Arguably the 'nearly-men' of African football, Nigeria have won the Africa Cup of Nations ...List of Radio Stations in Nigeria
List of Radio Stations in Nigeria Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) - state-run, operates "Radio Nigeria" stations in Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan, Kaduna, Enugu Voice of ...List of Television (TV) stations in Nigeria
List of Television (TV) stations in Nigeria Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) - state-run, operates scores of national and regional stations; national services broadcast in English Degue ...List of Newspapers in Nigeria
List of Newspapers in Nigeria The Guardian - influential, privately-owned national daily The Champion - Lagos-based daily The Daily Times - Lagos-based government daily The Punch ...Nigeria Unemployment Rate
The unemployment rate in Nigeria is 4.9% (2007 est.) ...Exchange Rate nairas (NGN) per US dollar
nairas (NGN) per US dollar - 117.8 (2008 est.), 127.46 (2007), 127.38 (2006), 132.59 (2005), 132.89 (2004) ...Nigeria Legal System
Nigeria legal system is based on the English common law, Islamic law (in 12 northern states), and traditional law; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction with reservations ...Nigeria Administrative Divisions
36 states and 1 territory*; Abia, Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bauchi, Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, Federal Capital Territory*, Gombe, ...Nigeria Capital
The capital of Nigeria is Abuja with geographic coordinates: ...Nigeria Literacy
definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: ...Nigeria Languages
List of languages in Nigeria includes English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani ...Nigeria Religions
List of religions in Nigeria includes Muslim 50%, Christian 40%, indigenous beliefs 10% ...Nigeria Ethnic groups
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups; the following are the most populous and politically influential: Hausa and Fulani ...Major infectious diseases in Nigeria
food or waterborne diseases: ...Nigeria Age Structure
0-14 years: 41.5% (male 31,624,050/female 30,242,637) 15-64 years: ...Nigeria Population
The population of Nigeria is 149,229,090 ...Natural Hazards in Nigeria
Natural Hazards in Nigeria includes periodic droughts; flooding ...Natural Resources in Nigeria
Natural resources in Nigeria includes natural gas, petroleum, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc, arable land ...Nigeria Terrain
The terrain in Nigeria is southern lowlands merge into central hills and plateaus; mountains in southeast, plains in north ...Nigeria Climate
The climate in Nigeria varies; equatorial in south, tropical in center, arid in north ...
Nigeria President Umaru Yar'Adua 'not seriously ill'
Nigerian officials have denied rumours that President Umaru Yar'Adua is seriously ill, after he flew to Saudi Arabia on Monday for medical treatment. Abdullahi Garba Aminci, ...About Nollywood
The cinema of Nigeria is a developing industry that has become increasingly productive in recent years. Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, ...
Absent judge forces Nigerian graft trial delay
ASABA, Nigeria – A judge failed to turn up to preside over a high-profile Nigerian corruption trial on Monday, causing the second postponement in the ...
Zimbabwe farmers a boon for Nigerian agriculture
SHONGA, Nigeria – When white Zimbabwean farmer Irvin Reid arrived in Nigeria almost five years ago, he was given a set of grid references in ...
Nigeria's power supply up 'after Delta amnesty'
LAGOS – The absence of strife in the oil-rich Niger Delta has led to an increase in Nigeria's electricity supply because gas supplies to power ...
Nigerian inflation climbs to 11.6%
LAGOS – Nigeria's annual inflation rate rose to 11.6 percent in October 2009 from 10.4 percent the previous month, driven by rising food prices, the ...Nigeria History
Early historyRecent archaeological research has shown that people were already living in southwestern Nigeria (specifically Iwo-Eleru) as early as 9000 BC and perhaps earlier at ...
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially named the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory. The country is located ...Nigeria Information
Stadiums in Nigeria A 3 Tenant/use City Stadium Capacity Built Seats NGANational StadiumAbujaAbuja Stadium60 0002003all-seater NGAMulti-useLagosSurelere Stadium55 0001972all-seater ... Ojo, ...
Nigeria complains about trade ties with South Africa
ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday said trade with South Africa was unfairly tilted in favour of the latter.Jonathan spoke as ...
Gas flaring in Nigeria must stop by January: minister
ABUJA (AFP) – Nigeria will next January ban gas flaring, an environmentally unfriendly practice of burning gas extracted alongside oil, the junior foreign minister, Bagudu ...
Breaking news: Bode George bail application denied
LAGOS — EFFORTS of the embattled former Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, Chief Bode George, and five others, to secure bail from an ...Night Clubs in Lagos Nigeria
After Hours 8, Louise Farrakhan Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos After Nine Lagos Island, Lagos Africa Shrine Pepple Street, Ikeja Lagos Atlantic Bar ...Hotels in Lagos Nigeria
Savoy Suites Nigeria, Lagos 43 Isaac John StreetLagos NigeriaPhone: 01 -271-5258 Sheraton Lagos Hotel and Towers, Lagos 30 Mobolaji Bank Anthony WayLagos Nigeria The Sheraton Lagos Hotel ...Restaurants in Lagos Nigeria
Home Food Home Cooking 38, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos Afis 22, Akin Adesola, Victoria Island, Lagos BJays 24, Ozumba Mbadiwe Street, Victoria Island, ...Hospitals and Medical Centres in Lagos Nigeria
Alalade Memorial Hospital 14, Shonde Street, Off Adesina Street, Ijesatedo, Lagos Phone: 1-862710 Ayo-Ade Oshin Memorial Hospital and Maternity Home 12 Hawley Street, ...Nigeria singer's joy at Mobo win
Nigerian musician Nneka Egbuna has told the BBC of her surprise and excitement at winning the Best African Act at the Music Of Black Origin ...Robbers invade bank, kill retired military officer in Edo community
BENIN—A retired military officer was yesterday shot dead by a group of armed robbers who invaded a micro finance bank in Jattu, near Auchi, in ...ASUU, students protest, seek public support
By Samuel Oyadongha Yenagoa—Niger Delta University chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and students yesterday staged a peaceful rally in Yenagoa, Bayelsa ...
Kaduna SSG kidnapped
By Emeka Mamah Kaduna — THERE is controversy over the whereabouts of the Secretary to the Government of Kaduna State (SSG), Mr. Waje Yayok, with ...
FG after my life over Ibori, says Ribadu
By Ise-Oluwa Ige & Ikechukwu Nnochiri ABUJA — PIONEER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, told a three-member panel ...Ibru urges N-Delta youths to drop arms
By Festus Ahon UGHELLI—CHAIRMAN of Ughelli North local government council, Delta State, Mr. Kenneth Kesiena Ibru, has charged youths in the Niger Delta to embrace ...Etiaba picks PPA nomination form for N5m
By Chris Ochayi ABUJA— Son of the Deputy Governor of Anambra State, Mr Emeka Etiaba, yesterday picked the Progressive People’s Party (PPA) governorship nomination ...C-River engages experts to check natural disasters
By John Ighodaro CALABAR—The Cross River State government is engaging environmentalists to seek ways of containing natural disasters which often leaves in its trail death ...Police nab 17 suspected criminals
By Anayo Okoli Umuahia – ABIA state Police Command, yesterday announced that it has arrested 17 suspects from different parts of the state for various criminal ...Depiction Of Nigerians In "district 9"
Asha@Nairaland wants to know - How many guys have watched the new film "District 9"? It was set in South Africa. The way Nigerians were ...
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03/14/2010 14:17:59
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