Population Data on demographic density indicate that the population of Nigeria exceeded 100 million during the first half of the nineties (in 1991 had been surveyed 88. 514. 501 residents, Rose in 1998, according...
Central-West African state. With an estimated population of 131,530,000 residents in 2005 (compared to the 88,514,501 registered in 1991), Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa, with an average annual growth rate of...
In the end of the first decade of the 21st century, Nigeria had to face a series of serious problems that still remained unsolved a few years after the return to democracy (1999). It...
At the beginning of the 21st century, celebrated the return to democracy after 15 years of military power, with the arrival to the presidency in free elections of General O. Obasanjo (February 1999), Nigeria...
According to SHOEFRANTICS.COM, the publication of The palm-wine drinkard (1952; trad. It. The palm wine drinker, 1954) by Amos Tututola (1920-1997) conventionally marks the beginning of Anglophone Nigerian literature, destined to impose itself on...
According to RRRJEWELRY.COM, Nigeria continues to maintain the privileged position that its natural resources and dense population give it among all the colonies of West Africa. Palm oil and palm nuts represent the main...
According to PLUS-SIZE-TIPS.COM, the territory, which extends to a large extent in the drainage basin of the Niger river and in that of the Benue, its tributary, has different morphological aspects according to the...
Nigeria is inhabited by more than 250 ethnic groups which, differing in socio-cultural and economic development, coexist in precarious balance, the cause of a perennial state of tension. The most numerous and politically influential...
Nigeria is administratively divided into 30 states (nine of which were created in 1991) and a federal district. The new capital, Abuja, inaugurated in 1982, has definitively replaced Lagos since December 1991 in the...
Federal state, independent since 10 October 1960, in 1961 it incorporates the northern region of the former British Cameroon and in 1963 it gives itself a republican constitution, remaining in the Commonwealth. According to...