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About Nigeria
West African country with the largest black population on earth 218.5 million (2022), and one of the largest economy in Africa 472.6 billion USD (2022). Nigeria, with an area covering 356,668 sq miles (923,7770 sq kilometers) is situated within longitudes 3 degrees and 14 degrees and latitudes 4 degrees and 140 degrees. The population composed of Hausa, Yoruba, and Ibo ethnicities also have Fulani, Kanuri, Ijaw, Ibibio, Benin, and other groups numbering up to 250, and some 400 languages are spoken. About 50% adhere to the Muslim faith while 46% are Christian and the rest shared among traditional as well as oriental religions.
Economy
Extractive Industry; in Nigeria involve different activities that lead to the extraction of raw materials from the earth (such as oil, metals, mineral and aggregates), processing and utilization by consumers as impacted by the Nigerian Content policy. The worth of the nation’s mineral resources, which include iron ore, gold, ferroalloys, industrial minerals are quite enormous but they are not yet being tapped and therefore cannot fetch money. Today the oil and gas sector is the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.
History
Royal Niger Company was the entity which served essentially as precursor for the Nigerian state; the mercantile establishment which evolved from British trading firms granted royal charters in West Africa by Queen Elizabeth, whose activities, commencing in 1662 was under the name “Company of Royal Adventures.” Commerce and internal strife increased the involvement of imperial authority. Following the fall of Lagos in 1861, many interior kingdoms was conquered; Badagry in 1863, Ijebu in 1892. One of the last to be subsumed under the British Empire, the Egba government, was added in 1914 in the same year the Southern and Northern provinces of Nigeria was amalgamated.
Tourism
The two UNESCO World Heritage Site in Nigeria, which doubles as the most popular tourism brands outside Nigeria, recognisable and visited by tourists worldwide are the Sukur Cultural Landscape in Adamawa State and Osun Grove, which is the only remaining sacred site of its size and biodiversity in Nigeria’s south-west region.
Nollywood; is the often criticized but common expression for the Nigerian film industry. Nigerian movies are seen as the pivot of a developing African film industry and the cultural mainstay of Africans in the continent and the Diaspora.
Not only did the works of Nigerian musical acts get regular air play in local and international broadcast media, music talents do clinch international award with impressive regularity.
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