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class="interlanguage-link-target">Адыгабзэ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-af mw-list-item"><a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeri%C3%AB" title="Nigerië – Afrikaans" lang="af" hreflang="af" data-title="Nigerië" data-language-autonym="Afrikaans" data-language-local-name="Afrikaans" class="interlanguage-link-target">Afrikaans</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-als mw-list-item"><a href="https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Alemannisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-am mw-list-item"><a href="https://am.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%93%E1%8B%AD%E1%8C%84%E1%88%AA%E1%8B%AB" title="ናይጄሪያ – Amharic" lang="am" hreflang="am" data-title="ናይጄሪያ" data-language-autonym="አማርኛ" data-language-local-name="Amharic" class="interlanguage-link-target">አማርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-smn mw-list-item"><a href="https://smn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Inari Sami" lang="smn" hreflang="smn" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Anarâškielâ" data-language-local-name="Inari Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Anarâškielâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-anp mw-list-item"><a href="https://anp.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाईजीरिया – Angika" lang="anp" hreflang="anp" data-title="नाईजीरिया" data-language-autonym="अंगिका" data-language-local-name="Angika" class="interlanguage-link-target">अंगिका</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ang mw-list-item"><a href="https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Old English" lang="ang" hreflang="ang" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Ænglisc" data-language-local-name="Old English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ænglisc</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ab mw-list-item"><a href="https://ab.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0" title="Нигериа – Abkhazian" lang="ab" hreflang="ab" data-title="Нигериа" data-language-autonym="Аԥсшәа" data-language-local-name="Abkhazian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Аԥсшәа</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="نيجيريا – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="نيجيريا" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">العربية</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicheria" title="Nicheria – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Nicheria" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aragonés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%86%D5%AB%D5%B3%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Նիճերիա – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Նիճերիա" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Արեւմտահայերէն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C2%B7%C3%A8ria" title="Nig·èria – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Nig·èria" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Arpetan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A7%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE" title="নাইজেৰিয়া – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="নাইজেৰিয়া" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">অসমীয়া</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixeria" title="Nixeria – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Nixeria" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gn mw-list-item"><a href="https://gn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nih%C3%A9ria" title="Nihéria – Guarani" lang="gn" hreflang="gn" data-title="Nihéria" data-language-autonym="Avañe'ẽ" data-language-local-name="Guarani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Avañe'ẽ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ay mw-list-item"><a href="https://ay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqirya" title="Niqirya – Aymara" lang="ay" hreflang="ay" data-title="Niqirya" data-language-autonym="Aymar aru" data-language-local-name="Aymara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Aymar aru</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriya" title="Nigeriya – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Nigeriya" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Azərbaycanca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87" title="نیجریه – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="نیجریه" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target">تۆرکجه</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ban mw-list-item"><a href="https://ban.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Balinese" lang="ban" hreflang="ban" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Basa Bali" data-language-local-name="Balinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Bali</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bm mw-list-item"><a href="https://bm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijeria" title="Nijeria – Bambara" lang="bm" hreflang="bm" data-title="Nijeria" data-language-autonym="Bamanankan" data-language-local-name="Bambara" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bamanankan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE" title="নাইজেরিয়া – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="নাইজেরিয়া" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target">বাংলা</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bjn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bjn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Banjar" lang="bjn" hreflang="bjn" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Banjar" data-language-local-name="Banjar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Banjar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-map-bms mw-list-item"><a href="https://map-bms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Banyumasan" lang="jv-x-bms" hreflang="jv-x-bms" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Basa Banyumasan" data-language-local-name="Banyumasan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Basa Banyumasan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ba mw-list-item"><a href="https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Bashkir" lang="ba" hreflang="ba" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Башҡортса" data-language-local-name="Bashkir" class="interlanguage-link-target">Башҡортса</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Нігерыя – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Нігерыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F" title="Нігерыя – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Нігерыя" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bh mw-list-item"><a href="https://bh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाइजीरिया – Bhojpuri" lang="bh" hreflang="bh" data-title="नाइजीरिया" data-language-autonym="भोजपुरी" data-language-local-name="Bhojpuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">भोजपुरी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerya" title="Nigerya – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Nigerya" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bikol Central</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bi mw-list-item"><a href="https://bi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naejiria" title="Naejiria – Bislama" lang="bi" hreflang="bi" data-title="Naejiria" data-language-autonym="Bislama" data-language-local-name="Bislama" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bislama</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Български</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Boarisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%93%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%87%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A2%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A1%E0%BC%8D" title="ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="ནི་ཇི་རི་ཡ།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target">བོད་ཡིག</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target">Brezhoneg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bxr mw-list-item"><a href="https://bxr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Russia Buriat" lang="bxr" hreflang="bxr" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Буряад" data-language-local-name="Russia Buriat" class="interlanguage-link-target">Буряад</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A8ria" title="Nigèria – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Nigèria" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target">Чӑвашла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigyeriya" title="Nigyeriya – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Nigyeriya" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cebuano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9rie" title="Nigérie – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Nigérie" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cbk-zam mw-list-item"><a href="https://cbk-zam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Chavacano" lang="cbk" hreflang="cbk" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Chavacano de Zamboanga" data-language-local-name="Chavacano" class="interlanguage-link-target">Chavacano de Zamboanga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sn mw-list-item"><a href="https://sn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijeriya" title="Naijeriya – Shona" lang="sn" hreflang="sn" data-title="Naijeriya" data-language-autonym="ChiShona" data-language-local-name="Shona" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiShona</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tum badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://tum.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Tumbuka" lang="tum" hreflang="tum" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="ChiTumbuka" data-language-local-name="Tumbuka" class="interlanguage-link-target">ChiTumbuka</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-co mw-list-item"><a href="https://co.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Corsican" lang="co" hreflang="co" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Corsu" data-language-local-name="Corsican" class="interlanguage-link-target">Corsu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Cymraeg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dag mw-list-item"><a href="https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Dagbani" lang="dag" hreflang="dag" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Dagbanli" data-language-local-name="Dagbani" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dagbanli</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ary mw-list-item"><a href="https://ary.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="نيجيريا – Moroccan Arabic" lang="ary" hreflang="ary" data-title="نيجيريا" data-language-autonym="الدارجة" data-language-local-name="Moroccan Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">الدارجة</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-se mw-list-item"><a href="https://se.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Northern Sami" lang="se" hreflang="se" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Davvisámegiella" data-language-local-name="Northern Sami" class="interlanguage-link-target">Davvisámegiella</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dv mw-list-item"><a href="https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%82%DE%A6%DE%87%DE%A8%DE%96%DE%A9%DE%83%DE%A8%DE%87%DE%A7" title="ނައިޖީރިއާ – Divehi" lang="dv" hreflang="dv" data-title="ނައިޖީރިއާ" data-language-autonym="ދިވެހިބަސް" data-language-local-name="Divehi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ދިވެހިބަސް</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nv mw-list-item"><a href="https://nv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naakaii_%C5%81izhinii_Bi%CA%BC%C3%A9%C3%A9n%C3%A9z%C3%AD_Bik%C3%A9yah" title="Naakaii Łizhinii Biʼéénézí Bikéyah – Navajo" lang="nv" hreflang="nv" data-title="Naakaii Łizhinii Biʼéénézí Bikéyah" data-language-autonym="Diné bizaad" data-language-local-name="Navajo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Diné bizaad</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://dsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Lower Sorbian" lang="dsb" hreflang="dsb" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Dolnoserbski" data-language-local-name="Lower Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dolnoserbski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-dty mw-list-item"><a href="https://dty.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाइजेरिया – Doteli" lang="dty" hreflang="dty" data-title="नाइजेरिया" data-language-autonym="डोटेली" data-language-local-name="Doteli" class="interlanguage-link-target">डोटेली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeeria" title="Nigeeria – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Nigeeria" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9D%CE%B9%CE%B3%CE%B7%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Νιγηρία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Νιγηρία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-myv mw-list-item"><a href="https://myv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Erzya" lang="myv" hreflang="myv" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Эрзянь" data-language-local-name="Erzya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Эрзянь</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C4%9Derio" title="Niĝerio – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Niĝerio" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ext mw-list-item"><a href="https://ext.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Extremaduran" lang="ext" hreflang="ext" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Estremeñu" data-language-local-name="Extremaduran" class="interlanguage-link-target">Estremeñu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ee mw-list-item"><a href="https://ee.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naidzeria" title="Naidzeria – Ewe" lang="ee" hreflang="ee" data-title="Naidzeria" data-language-autonym="Eʋegbe" data-language-local-name="Ewe" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eʋegbe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gur mw-list-item"><a href="https://gur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Frafra" lang="gur" hreflang="gur" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Farefare" data-language-local-name="Frafra" class="interlanguage-link-target">Farefare</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%87" title="نیجریه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="نیجریه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hif mw-list-item"><a href="https://hif.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Fiji Hindi" lang="hif" hreflang="hif" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Fiji Hindi" data-language-local-name="Fiji Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fiji Hindi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fo badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Faroese" lang="fo" hreflang="fo" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Føroyskt" data-language-local-name="Faroese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Føroyskt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigearia" title="Nigearia – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Nigearia" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ff mw-list-item"><a href="https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naajeeriya" title="Naajeeriya – Fula" lang="ff" hreflang="ff" data-title="Naajeeriya" data-language-autonym="Fulfulde" data-language-local-name="Fula" class="interlanguage-link-target">Fulfulde</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Nig%C3%A9ir" title="An Nigéir – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="An Nigéir" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaeilge</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yn_Naigeer" title="Yn Naigeer – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Yn Naigeer" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gaelg</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gag mw-list-item"><a href="https://gag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriya" title="Nigeriya – Gagauz" lang="gag" hreflang="gag" data-title="Nigeriya" data-language-autonym="Gagauz" data-language-local-name="Gagauz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagauz</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%ACgeiria" title="Nìgeiria – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Nìgeiria" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gàidhlig</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixeria" title="Nixeria – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Nixeria" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-inh mw-list-item"><a href="https://inh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Ingush" lang="inh" hreflang="inh" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="ГӀалгӀай" data-language-local-name="Ingush" class="interlanguage-link-target">ГӀалгӀай</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gan mw-list-item"><a href="https://gan.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E6%97%A5%E5%88%A9%E4%BA%9E" title="尼日利亞 – Gan" lang="gan" hreflang="gan" data-title="尼日利亞" data-language-autonym="贛語" data-language-local-name="Gan" class="interlanguage-link-target">贛語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ki mw-list-item"><a href="https://ki.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Kikuyu" lang="ki" hreflang="ki" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Gĩkũyũ" data-language-local-name="Kikuyu" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gĩkũyũ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%A8%E0%AA%BE%E0%AA%87%E0%AA%9C%E0%AB%80%E0%AA%B0%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%AF%E0%AA%BE" title="નાઇજીરિયા – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="નાઇજીરિયા" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target">ગુજરાતી</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-guw mw-list-item"><a href="https://guw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijilia" title="Naijilia – Gun" lang="guw" hreflang="guw" data-title="Naijilia" data-language-autonym="Gungbe" data-language-local-name="Gun" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gungbe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hak mw-list-item"><a href="https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Hakka Chinese" lang="hak" hreflang="hak" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî" data-language-local-name="Hakka Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">客家語 / Hak-kâ-ngî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%82%98%EC%9D%B4%EC%A7%80%EB%A6%AC%EC%95%84" title="나이지리아 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="나이지리아" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ha mw-list-item"><a href="https://ha.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najeriya" title="Najeriya – Hausa" lang="ha" hreflang="ha" data-title="Najeriya" data-language-autonym="Hausa" data-language-local-name="Hausa" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hausa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%86%D5%AB%D5%A3%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1" title="Նիգերիա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Նիգերիա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाईजीरिया – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="नाईजीरिया" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target">हिन्दी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hsb mw-list-item"><a href="https://hsb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Upper Sorbian" lang="hsb" hreflang="hsb" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Hornjoserbsce" data-language-local-name="Upper Sorbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hornjoserbsce</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ig mw-list-item"><a href="https://ig.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijiria" title="Naijiria – Igbo" lang="ig" hreflang="ig" data-title="Naijiria" data-language-autonym="Igbo" data-language-local-name="Igbo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Igbo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ilo mw-list-item"><a href="https://ilo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Iloko" lang="ilo" hreflang="ilo" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Ilokano" data-language-local-name="Iloko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ilokano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9C%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BC%E0%A6%BE" title="নাইজেরিয়া – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="নাইজেরিয়া" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target">বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ia mw-list-item"><a href="https://ia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Interlingua" lang="ia" hreflang="ia" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Interlingua" data-language-local-name="Interlingua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingua</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ik mw-list-item"><a href="https://ik.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naitchiriaq" title="Naitchiriaq – Inupiaq" lang="ik" hreflang="ik" data-title="Naitchiriaq" data-language-autonym="Iñupiatun" data-language-local-name="Inupiaq" class="interlanguage-link-target">Iñupiatun</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-os mw-list-item"><a href="https://os.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Ossetic" lang="os" hreflang="os" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Ирон" data-language-local-name="Ossetic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ирон</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xh mw-list-item"><a href="https://xh.wikipedia.org/wiki/INigeria" title="INigeria – Xhosa" lang="xh" hreflang="xh" data-title="INigeria" data-language-autonym="IsiXhosa" data-language-local-name="Xhosa" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiXhosa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zu mw-list-item"><a href="https://zu.wikipedia.org/wiki/INigeria" title="INigeria – Zulu" lang="zu" hreflang="zu" data-title="INigeria" data-language-autonym="IsiZulu" data-language-local-name="Zulu" class="interlanguage-link-target">IsiZulu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%ADger%C3%ADa" title="Nígería – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Nígería" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94" title="ניגריה – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ניגריה" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Jawa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kbp mw-list-item"><a href="https://kbp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naajeeriya" title="Naajeeriya – Kabiye" lang="kbp" hreflang="kbp" data-title="Naajeeriya" data-language-autonym="Kabɩyɛ" data-language-local-name="Kabiye" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kabɩyɛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%A8%E0%B3%88%E0%B2%9C%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%B0%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF" title="ನೈಜೀರಿಯ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ನೈಜೀರಿಯ" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pam mw-list-item"><a href="https://pam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Pampanga" lang="pam" hreflang="pam" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Kapampangan" data-language-local-name="Pampanga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kapampangan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ნიგერია – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ნიგერია" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ks mw-list-item"><a href="https://ks.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نائیجیریا – Kashmiri" lang="ks" hreflang="ks" data-title="نائیجیریا" data-language-autonym="कॉशुर / کٲشُر" data-language-local-name="Kashmiri" class="interlanguage-link-target">कॉशुर / کٲشُر</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kw mw-list-item"><a href="https://kw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijeri" title="Nijeri – Cornish" lang="kw" hreflang="kw" data-title="Nijeri" data-language-autonym="Kernowek" data-language-local-name="Cornish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kernowek</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rw mw-list-item"><a href="https://rw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijeriya" title="Nijeriya – Kinyarwanda" lang="rw" hreflang="rw" data-title="Nijeriya" data-language-autonym="Ikinyarwanda" data-language-local-name="Kinyarwanda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ikinyarwanda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizeria" title="Nizeria – Kongo" lang="kg" hreflang="kg" data-title="Nizeria" data-language-autonym="Kongo" data-language-local-name="Kongo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kongo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-avk mw-list-item"><a href="https://avk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Kotava" lang="avk" hreflang="avk" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Kotava" data-language-local-name="Kotava" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kotava</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijerya" title="Nijerya – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Nijerya" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kreyòl ayisyen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gcr mw-list-item"><a href="https://gcr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nij%C3%A9rya" title="Nijérya – Guianan Creole" lang="gcr" hreflang="gcr" data-title="Nijérya" data-language-autonym="Kriyòl gwiyannen" data-language-local-name="Guianan Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kriyòl gwiyannen</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%AEjerya" title="Nîjerya – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Nîjerya" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ky mw-list-item"><a href="https://ky.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Kyrgyz" lang="ky" hreflang="ky" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Кыргызча" data-language-local-name="Kyrgyz" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кыргызча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mrj mw-list-item"><a href="https://mrj.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Western Mari" lang="mrj" hreflang="mrj" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Кырык мары" data-language-local-name="Western Mari" class="interlanguage-link-target">Кырык мары</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lld mw-list-item"><a href="https://lld.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Ladin" lang="lld" hreflang="lld" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Ladin" data-language-local-name="Ladin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lad mw-list-item"><a href="https://lad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijeria" title="Nijeria – Ladino" lang="lad" hreflang="lad" data-title="Nijeria" data-language-autonym="Ladino" data-language-local-name="Ladino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ladino</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ltg mw-list-item"><a href="https://ltg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigereja" title="Nigereja – Latgalian" lang="ltg" hreflang="ltg" data-title="Nigereja" data-language-autonym="Latgaļu" data-language-local-name="Latgalian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latgaļu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C4%93rija" title="Nigērija – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Nigērija" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lëtzebuergesch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lez mw-list-item"><a href="https://lez.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Lezghian" lang="lez" hreflang="lez" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Лезги" data-language-local-name="Lezghian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Лезги</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lij mw-list-item"><a href="https://lij.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Ligurian" lang="lij" hreflang="lij" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Ligure" data-language-local-name="Ligurian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ligure</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ln mw-list-item"><a href="https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizeria" title="Nizeria – Lingala" lang="ln" hreflang="ln" data-title="Nizeria" data-language-autonym="Lingála" data-language-local-name="Lingala" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingála</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijeria" title="Nijeria – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Nijeria" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lingua Franca Nova</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-olo mw-list-item"><a href="https://olo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerii" title="Nigerii – Livvi-Karelian" lang="olo" hreflang="olo" data-title="Nigerii" data-language-autonym="Livvinkarjala" data-language-local-name="Livvi-Karelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Livvinkarjala</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jbo mw-list-item"><a href="https://jbo.wikipedia.org/wiki/nixerias" title="nixerias – Lojban" lang="jbo" hreflang="jbo" data-title="nixerias" data-language-autonym="La .lojban." data-language-local-name="Lojban" class="interlanguage-link-target">La .lojban.</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lg mw-list-item"><a href="https://lg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Ganda" lang="lg" hreflang="lg" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Luganda" data-language-local-name="Ganda" class="interlanguage-link-target">Luganda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mad mw-list-item"><a href="https://mad.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Madurese" lang="mad" hreflang="mad" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Madhurâ" data-language-local-name="Madurese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Madhurâ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Нигерија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Нигерија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Македонски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizeri%C3%A0" title="Nizerià – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="Nizerià" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%A8%E0%B5%88%E0%B4%9C%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%B0%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF" title="നൈജീരിയ – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="നൈജീരിയ" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mt mw-list-item"><a href="https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%C4%A1erja" title="Niġerja – Maltese" lang="mt" hreflang="mt" data-title="Niġerja" data-language-autonym="Malti" data-language-local-name="Maltese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mi mw-list-item"><a href="https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ng%C4%81itiria" title="Ngāitiria – Māori" lang="mi" hreflang="mi" data-title="Ngāitiria" data-language-autonym="Māori" data-language-local-name="Māori" class="interlanguage-link-target">Māori</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mr mw-list-item"><a href="https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नायजेरिया – Marathi" lang="mr" hreflang="mr" data-title="नायजेरिया" data-language-autonym="मराठी" data-language-local-name="Marathi" class="interlanguage-link-target">मराठी</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9C%E1%83%98%E1%83%92%E1%83%94%E1%83%A0%E1%83%98%E1%83%90" title="ნიგერია – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ნიგერია" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target">მარგალური</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="نايجيريا – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="نايجيريا" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target">مصرى</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8C%D8%AC%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نیجریا – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="نیجریا" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target">مازِرونی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Melayu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%85%EA%AF%A5%EA%AF%A2%EA%AF%96%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%94%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%8C%EA%AF%A5" title="ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯅꯥꯢꯖꯤꯔꯤꯌꯥ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target">ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-min mw-list-item"><a href="https://min.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Minangkabau" lang="min" hreflang="min" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Minangkabau" data-language-local-name="Minangkabau" class="interlanguage-link-target">Minangkabau</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target">閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mwl mw-list-item"><a href="https://mwl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Mirandese" lang="mwl" hreflang="mwl" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Mirandés" data-language-local-name="Mirandese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Mirandés</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mdf mw-list-item"><a href="https://mdf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D1%8D%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигэрия – Moksha" lang="mdf" hreflang="mdf" data-title="Нигэрия" data-language-autonym="Мокшень" data-language-local-name="Moksha" class="interlanguage-link-target">Мокшень</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Mongolian" lang="mn" hreflang="mn" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Монгол" data-language-local-name="Mongolian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Монгол</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%82%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%94%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%84%E1%80%B6" title="နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="နိုင်ဂျီးရီးယားနိုင်ငံ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pcm mw-list-item"><a href="https://pcm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naija" title="Naija – Nigerian Pidgin" lang="pcm" hreflang="pcm" data-title="Naija" data-language-autonym="Naijá" data-language-local-name="Nigerian Pidgin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Naijá</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds-nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Low Saxon" lang="nds-NL" hreflang="nds-NL" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Nedersaksies" data-language-local-name="Low Saxon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nedersaksies</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ne mw-list-item"><a href="https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाइजेरिया – Nepali" lang="ne" hreflang="ne" data-title="नाइजेरिया" data-language-autonym="नेपाली" data-language-local-name="Nepali" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाली</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-new mw-list-item"><a href="https://new.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%87%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%87%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नाइजेरिया – Newari" lang="new" hreflang="new" data-title="नाइजेरिया" data-language-autonym="नेपाल भाषा" data-language-local-name="Newari" class="interlanguage-link-target">नेपाल भाषा</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%8A%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A2" title="ナイジェリア – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ナイジェリア" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8" title="Нигери – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Нигери" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Нохчийн</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frr mw-list-item"><a href="https://frr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeeria" title="Nigeeria – Northern Frisian" lang="frr" hreflang="frr" data-title="Nigeeria" data-language-autonym="Nordfriisk" data-language-local-name="Northern Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nordfriisk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pih mw-list-item"><a href="https://pih.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niijiirya" title="Niijiirya – Norfuk / Pitkern" lang="pih" hreflang="pih" data-title="Niijiirya" data-language-autonym="Norfuk / Pitkern" data-language-local-name="Norfuk / Pitkern" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norfuk / Pitkern</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk bokmål</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nn mw-list-item"><a href="https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Norwegian Nynorsk" lang="nn" hreflang="nn" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Norsk nynorsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Nynorsk" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk nynorsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nov mw-list-item"><a href="https://nov.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Novial" lang="nov" hreflang="nov" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Novial" data-language-local-name="Novial" class="interlanguage-link-target">Novial</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A8ria" title="Nigèria – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Nigèria" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Occitan</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naayijeeriyaa" title="Naayijeeriyaa – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="Naayijeeriyaa" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriya" title="Nigeriya – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Nigeriya" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%A8%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%9C%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%B0%E0%A9%80%E0%A8%86" title="ਨਾਈਜੀਰੀਆ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਨਾਈਜੀਰੀਆ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pi mw-list-item"><a href="https://pi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नैजीरिया – Pali" lang="pi" hreflang="pi" data-title="नैजीरिया" data-language-autonym="पालि" data-language-local-name="Pali" class="interlanguage-link-target">पालि</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pfl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pfl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Palatine German" lang="pfl" hreflang="pfl" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Pälzisch" data-language-local-name="Palatine German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Pälzisch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ami mw-list-item"><a href="https://ami.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Amis" lang="ami" hreflang="ami" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Pangcah" data-language-local-name="Amis" class="interlanguage-link-target">Pangcah</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نائیجیریا – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="نائیجیریا" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target">پنجابی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pap mw-list-item"><a href="https://pap.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Papiamento" lang="pap" hreflang="pap" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Papiamentu" data-language-local-name="Papiamento" class="interlanguage-link-target">Papiamentu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AC%DB%90%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="نايجېريا – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="نايجېريا" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target">پښتو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jam mw-list-item"><a href="https://jam.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijiiria" title="Naijiiria – Jamaican Creole English" lang="jam" hreflang="jam" data-title="Naijiiria" data-language-autonym="Patois" data-language-local-name="Jamaican Creole English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Patois</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%9E%93%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%A0%E1%9F%92%E1%9E%9F%E1%9F%81%E1%9E%9A%E1%9E%B8%E1%9E%99%E1%9F%89%E1%9E%B6" title="នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="នីហ្សេរីយ៉ា" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pms mw-list-item"><a href="https://pms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Piedmontese" lang="pms" hreflang="pms" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Piemontèis" data-language-local-name="Piedmontese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Piemontèis</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tpi mw-list-item"><a href="https://tpi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijiria" title="Naijiria – Tok Pisin" lang="tpi" hreflang="tpi" data-title="Naijiria" data-language-autonym="Tok Pisin" data-language-local-name="Tok Pisin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tok Pisin</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Plattdüütsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kaa mw-list-item"><a href="https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriya" title="Nigeriya – Kara-Kalpak" lang="kaa" hreflang="kaa" data-title="Nigeriya" data-language-autonym="Qaraqalpaqsha" data-language-local-name="Kara-Kalpak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qaraqalpaqsha</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-crh mw-list-item"><a href="https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriya" title="Nigeriya – Crimean Tatar" lang="crh" hreflang="crh" data-title="Nigeriya" data-language-autonym="Qırımtatarca" data-language-local-name="Crimean Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Qırımtatarca</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Română</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-qu mw-list-item"><a href="https://qu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihirya" title="Nihirya – Quechua" lang="qu" hreflang="qu" data-title="Nihirya" data-language-autonym="Runa Simi" data-language-local-name="Quechua" class="interlanguage-link-target">Runa Simi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-rue mw-list-item"><a href="https://rue.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D2%91%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Ніґерія – Rusyn" lang="rue" hreflang="rue" data-title="Ніґерія" data-language-autonym="Русиньскый" data-language-local-name="Rusyn" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русиньскый</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sah mw-list-item"><a href="https://sah.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Yakut" lang="sah" hreflang="sah" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Саха тыла" data-language-local-name="Yakut" class="interlanguage-link-target">Саха тыла</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szy mw-list-item"><a href="https://szy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Sakizaya" lang="szy" hreflang="szy" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Sakizaya" data-language-local-name="Sakizaya" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sakizaya</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sa mw-list-item"><a href="https://sa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A5%88%E0%A4%9C%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%B0%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%BE" title="नैजीरिया – Sanskrit" lang="sa" hreflang="sa" data-title="नैजीरिया" data-language-autonym="संस्कृतम्" data-language-local-name="Sanskrit" class="interlanguage-link-target">संस्कृतम्</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizer%C3%AFa" title="Nizerïa – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="Nizerïa" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sängö</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sat mw-list-item"><a href="https://sat.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%B1%B1%E1%B1%9F%E1%B1%AD%E1%B1%A1%E1%B1%AE%E1%B1%A8%E1%B1%A4%E1%B1%AD%E1%B1%9F" title="ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱮᱨᱤᱭᱟ – Santali" lang="sat" hreflang="sat" data-title="ᱱᱟᱭᱡᱮᱨᱤᱭᱟ" data-language-autonym="ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ" data-language-local-name="Santali" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sc mw-list-item"><a href="https://sc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A8ria" title="Nigèria – Sardinian" lang="sc" hreflang="sc" data-title="Nigèria" data-language-autonym="Sardu" data-language-local-name="Sardinian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sardu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeirie" title="Nigeirie – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Nigeirie" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target">Scots</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-trv mw-list-item"><a href="https://trv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Taroko" lang="trv" hreflang="trv" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Seediq" data-language-local-name="Taroko" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seediq</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-stq mw-list-item"><a href="https://stq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Saterland Frisian" lang="stq" hreflang="stq" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Seeltersk" data-language-local-name="Saterland Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Seeltersk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-st mw-list-item"><a href="https://st.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Southern Sotho" lang="st" hreflang="st" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Sesotho" data-language-local-name="Southern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sesotho</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nso mw-list-item"><a href="https://nso.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Northern Sotho" lang="nso" hreflang="nso" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Sesotho sa Leboa" data-language-local-name="Northern Sotho" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sesotho sa Leboa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Shqip</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sicilianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-si mw-list-item"><a href="https://si.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B6%B1%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%A2%E0%B7%93%E0%B6%BB%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%8F%E0%B7%80" title="නයිජීරියාව – Sinhala" lang="si" hreflang="si" data-title="නයිජීරියාව" data-language-autonym="සිංහල" data-language-local-name="Sinhala" class="interlanguage-link-target">සිංහල</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7" title="نائيجيريا – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="نائيجيريا" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target">سنڌي</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ss mw-list-item"><a href="https://ss.wikipedia.org/wiki/INayijeriya" title="INayijeriya – Swati" lang="ss" hreflang="ss" data-title="INayijeriya" data-language-autonym="SiSwati" data-language-local-name="Swati" class="interlanguage-link-target">SiSwati</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenščina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-szl mw-list-item"><a href="https://szl.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%83igeryjo" title="Ńigeryjo – Silesian" lang="szl" hreflang="szl" data-title="Ńigeryjo" data-language-autonym="Ślůnski" data-language-local-name="Silesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ślůnski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-so mw-list-item"><a href="https://so.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayjeeriya" title="Nayjeeriya – Somali" lang="so" hreflang="so" data-title="Nayjeeriya" data-language-autonym="Soomaaliga" data-language-local-name="Somali" class="interlanguage-link-target">Soomaaliga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%DB%8E%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نێجیریا – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="نێجیریا" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">کوردی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Нигерија – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Нигерија" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerija" title="Nigerija – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Nigerija" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-su mw-list-item"><a href="https://su.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nig%C3%A9ria" title="Nigéria – Sundanese" lang="su" hreflang="su" data-title="Nigéria" data-language-autonym="Sunda" data-language-local-name="Sundanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sunda</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv badge-Q17559452 badge-recommendedarticle mw-list-item" title="recommended article"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tagalog</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%A8%E0%AF%88%E0%AE%9C%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE" title="நைஜீரியா – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="நைஜீரியா" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shi mw-list-item"><a href="https://shi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijirya" title="Nijirya – Tachelhit" lang="shi" hreflang="shi" data-title="Nijirya" data-language-autonym="Taclḥit" data-language-local-name="Tachelhit" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taclḥit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kab mw-list-item"><a href="https://kab.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijirya" title="Nijirya – Kabyle" lang="kab" hreflang="kab" data-title="Nijirya" data-language-autonym="Taqbaylit" data-language-local-name="Kabyle" class="interlanguage-link-target">Taqbaylit</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-roa-tara mw-list-item"><a href="https://roa-tara.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerie" title="Nigerie – Tarantino" lang="nap-x-tara" hreflang="nap-x-tara" data-title="Nigerie" data-language-autonym="Tarandíne" data-language-local-name="Tarantino" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tarandíne</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tt mw-list-item"><a href="https://tt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Tatar" lang="tt" hreflang="tt" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Татарча / tatarça" data-language-local-name="Tatar" class="interlanguage-link-target">Татарча / tatarça</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-shn mw-list-item"><a href="https://shn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%80%AD%E1%80%B0%E1%80%84%E1%80%BA%E1%80%B8%E1%81%BC%E1%81%A2%E1%82%86%E1%82%87%E1%81%B5%E1%80%BB%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AE%E1%80%B8%E1%80%9A%E1%82%83%E1%80%B8" title="မိူင်းၼၢႆႇၵျီးရီးယႃး – Shan" lang="shn" hreflang="shn" data-title="မိူင်းၼၢႆႇၵျီးရီးယႃး" data-language-autonym="ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး " data-language-local-name="Shan" class="interlanguage-link-target">ၽႃႇသႃႇတႆး </a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tay mw-list-item"><a href="https://tay.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Tayal" lang="tay" hreflang="tay" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Tayal" data-language-local-name="Tayal" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tayal</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%88%E0%B0%9C%E0%B1%80%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE" title="నైజీరియా – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="నైజీరియా" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tet mw-list-item"><a href="https://tet.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nij%C3%A9ria" title="Nijéria – Tetum" lang="tet" hreflang="tet" data-title="Nijéria" data-language-autonym="Tetun" data-language-local-name="Tetum" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tetun</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%9B%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B0%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%97%E0%B8%A8%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%99%E0%B8%88%E0%B8%B5%E0%B9%80%E0%B8%A3%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%A2" title="ประเทศไนจีเรีย – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ประเทศไนจีเรีย" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-din mw-list-item"><a href="https://din.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijeria" title="Naijeria – Dinka" lang="din" hreflang="din" data-title="Naijeria" data-language-autonym="Thuɔŋjäŋ" data-language-local-name="Dinka" class="interlanguage-link-target">Thuɔŋjäŋ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ti mw-list-item"><a href="https://ti.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8A%93%E1%8B%AD%E1%8C%82%E1%88%AA%E1%8B%AB" title="ናይጂሪያ – Tigrinya" lang="ti" hreflang="ti" data-title="ናይጂሪያ" data-language-autonym="ትግርኛ" data-language-local-name="Tigrinya" class="interlanguage-link-target">ትግርኛ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tg mw-list-item"><a href="https://tg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Tajik" lang="tg" hreflang="tg" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Тоҷикӣ" data-language-local-name="Tajik" class="interlanguage-link-target">Тоҷикӣ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-chr mw-list-item"><a href="https://chr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%8F%82%E1%8F%A5%E1%8E%B5%E1%8F%AF" title="ᏂᏥᎵᏯ – Cherokee" lang="chr" hreflang="chr" data-title="ᏂᏥᎵᏯ" data-language-autonym="ᏣᎳᎩ" data-language-local-name="Cherokee" class="interlanguage-link-target">ᏣᎳᎩ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nijerya" title="Nijerya – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="Nijerya" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tk mw-list-item"><a href="https://tk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeri%C3%BDa" title="Nigeriýa – Turkmen" lang="tk" hreflang="tk" data-title="Nigeriýa" data-language-autonym="Türkmençe" data-language-local-name="Turkmen" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkmençe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tw mw-list-item"><a href="https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Twi" lang="tw" hreflang="tw" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Twi" data-language-local-name="Twi" class="interlanguage-link-target">Twi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kcg mw-list-item"><a href="https://kcg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naijeriya" title="Naijeriya – Tyap" lang="kcg" hreflang="kcg" data-title="Naijeriya" data-language-autonym="Tyap" data-language-local-name="Tyap" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tyap</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-udm mw-list-item"><a href="https://udm.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B8%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Нигерия – Udmurt" lang="udm" hreflang="udm" data-title="Нигерия" data-language-autonym="Удмурт" data-language-local-name="Udmurt" class="interlanguage-link-target">Удмурт</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D1%96%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Нігерія – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="Нігерія" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%AC%DB%8C%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%A7" title="نائیجیریا – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="نائیجیریا" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ug mw-list-item"><a href="https://ug.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D9%89%DA%AF%DB%90%D8%B1%D9%89%D9%8A%DB%95" title="نىگېرىيە – Uyghur" lang="ug" hreflang="ug" data-title="نىگېرىيە" data-language-autonym="ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche" data-language-local-name="Uyghur" class="interlanguage-link-target">ئۇيغۇرچە / Uyghurche</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-za mw-list-item"><a href="https://za.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Zhuang" lang="za" hreflang="za" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Vahcuengh" data-language-local-name="Zhuang" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vahcuengh</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vec mw-list-item"><a href="https://vec.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niz%C3%A8ria" title="Nizèria – Venetian" lang="vec" hreflang="vec" data-title="Nizèria" data-language-autonym="Vèneto" data-language-local-name="Venetian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vèneto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vep mw-list-item"><a href="https://vep.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerii" title="Nigerii – Veps" lang="vep" hreflang="vep" data-title="Nigerii" data-language-autonym="Vepsän kel’" data-language-local-name="Veps" class="interlanguage-link-target">Vepsän kel’</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Tiếng Việt" data-language-local-name="Vietnamese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Tiếng Việt</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vo mw-list-item"><a href="https://vo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeriy%C3%A4n" title="Nigeriyän – Volapük" lang="vo" hreflang="vo" data-title="Nigeriyän" data-language-autonym="Volapük" data-language-local-name="Volapük" class="interlanguage-link-target">Volapük</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fiu-vro mw-list-item"><a href="https://fiu-vro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeeri%C3%A4" title="Nigeeriä – Võro" lang="vro" hreflang="vro" data-title="Nigeeriä" data-language-autonym="Võro" data-language-local-name="Võro" class="interlanguage-link-target">Võro</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wa mw-list-item"><a href="https://wa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidjeria" title="Nidjeria – Walloon" lang="wa" hreflang="wa" data-title="Nidjeria" data-language-autonym="Walon" data-language-local-name="Walloon" class="interlanguage-link-target">Walon</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-classical mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E6%97%A5%E5%88%A9%E4%BA%9E" title="尼日利亞 – Literary Chinese" lang="lzh" hreflang="lzh" data-title="尼日利亞" data-language-autonym="文言" data-language-local-name="Literary Chinese" class="interlanguage-link-target">文言</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vls mw-list-item"><a href="https://vls.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – West Flemish" lang="vls" hreflang="vls" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="West-Vlams" data-language-local-name="West Flemish" class="interlanguage-link-target">West-Vlams</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-war mw-list-item"><a href="https://war.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria" title="Nigeria – Waray" lang="war" hreflang="war" data-title="Nigeria" data-language-autonym="Winaray" data-language-local-name="Waray" class="interlanguage-link-target">Winaray</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wo mw-list-item"><a href="https://wo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niseeriya" title="Niseeriya – Wolof" lang="wo" hreflang="wo" data-title="Niseeriya" data-language-autonym="Wolof" data-language-local-name="Wolof" class="interlanguage-link-target">Wolof</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-wuu mw-list-item"><a href="https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E6%97%A5%E5%88%A9%E4%BA%9A" title="尼日利亚 – Wu" lang="wuu" hreflang="wuu" data-title="尼日利亚" data-language-autonym="吴语" data-language-local-name="Wu" class="interlanguage-link-target">吴语</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ts mw-list-item"><a href="https://ts.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayjeriya" title="Nayjeriya – Tsonga" lang="ts" hreflang="ts" data-title="Nayjeriya" data-language-autonym="Xitsonga" data-language-local-name="Tsonga" class="interlanguage-link-target">Xitsonga</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-yi mw-list-item"><a href="https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%92%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A2" title="ניגעריע – Yiddish" lang="yi" hreflang="yi" data-title="ניגעריע" data-language-autonym="ייִדיש" data-language-local-name="Yiddish" class="interlanguage-link-target">ייִדיש</a></li><li 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title="Wikipedia:VisualEditor">Visual edit</a> Mobile edit Mobile web edit</div><div id="mw-diff-ntitle4"> </div></td> </tr><tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 67:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 67:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| population_density_sq_mi = 647 </div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| population_density_sq_mi = 647 </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| population_density_rank = 42nd</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| population_density_rank = 42nd</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $1.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">490</del> trillion<ref name="IMFWEO.NG">{{cite web 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(Nigeria) |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |website=IMF.org |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016041349/https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2023/October/weo-report?c=694,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2020&ey=2028&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_PPP = {{increase}} $1.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">443</ins> trillion<ref name="IMFWEO.NG">{{cite web |url=https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2023/October/weo-report?c=694,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2020&ey=2028&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |title=World Economic Outlook Database, October 2023 Edition. (Nigeria) |publisher=[[International Monetary Fund]] |website=IMF.org |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-date=16 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016041349/https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2023/October/weo-report?c=694,&s=NGDPD,PPPGDP,NGDPDPC,PPPPC,&sy=2020&ey=2028&ssm=0&scsm=1&scc=0&ssd=1&ssc=0&sic=0&sort=country&ds=.&br=1 |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_PPP_year = 2024</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_PPP_year = 2024</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_PPP_rank = 27th</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_PPP_rank = 27th</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_PPP_per_capita = {{increase}} $6,<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">540</del><ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_PPP_per_capita = {{increase}} $6,<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">340</ins><ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">146th</del></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_PPP_per_capita_rank = <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">142nd</ins></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_nominal = {{decrease}} $<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">199</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">72</del> billion<ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_nominal = {{decrease}} $<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">252</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">738</ins> billion<ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_nominal_year = 2024</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_nominal_year = 2024</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_nominal_rank = 53rd</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_nominal_rank = 53rd</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_nominal_per_capita = {{decrease}} $<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">877</del><ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_nominal_per_capita = {{decrease}} $<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1,110</ins><ref name="IMFWEO.NG" /></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">177th</del></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>| GDP_nominal_per_capita_rank = <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">167th</ins></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| Gini = 35.1 </div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| Gini = 35.1 </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| Gini_year = 2020</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| Gini_year = 2020</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 101:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 101:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| ethnic_groups_year = 2018</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| ethnic_groups_year = 2018</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| ethnic_groups = {{plainlist|</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| ethnic_groups = {{plainlist|</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">30</del>% [[Hausa people|Hausa]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">25</ins>% [[Hausa people|Hausa]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">15.5</del>% [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">21</ins>% [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">15.2</del>% [[Igbo people|Igbo]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">18</ins>% [[Igbo people|Igbo]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* 6% [[Fula people|Fulani]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* 6% [[Fula people|Fulani]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker"><a class="mw-diff-movedpara-right" title="Paragraph was moved. Click to jump to old location." href="#movedpara_11_0_lhs">⚫</a></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div><a name="movedpara_9_0_rhs"></a>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">3</ins>.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">5</ins>% [[Ibibio people|Ibibio]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* 2.4% [[Tiv people|Tiv]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* 2.4% [[Tiv people|Tiv]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* 2.4% [[Kanuri people|Kanuri]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* 2.4% [[Kanuri people|Kanuri]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"><a class="mw-diff-movedpara-left" title="Paragraph was moved. Click to jump to new location." href="#movedpara_9_0_rhs">⚫</a></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div><a name="movedpara_11_0_lhs"></a>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">1</del>.<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">8</del>% [[Ibibio people|Ibibio]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* 1.8% [[Ijaw people|Ijaw]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* 1.8% [[Ijaw people|Ijaw]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">24</del>.9% [[List of ethnic groups in Nigeria|other]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>* <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">19</ins>.9% [[List of ethnic groups in Nigeria|other]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>| religion = </div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>| religion = </div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 122:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 122:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Nigeria is a [[multinational state]] inhabited by more than [[Demographics of Nigeria|250 ethnic groups]] speaking [[Languages of Nigeria|500 distinct languages]], all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ethnicity in Nigeria|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/africa-jan-june07-ethnic_04-05/|date=5 April 2007|publisher=PBS|access-date=9 May 2015|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006235712/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/africa-jan-june07-ethnic_04-05/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nigeria|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG|website=Ethnologue|access-date=4 July 2019|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227084603/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Linguistic diversity in Africa and Europe – Languages Of The World|url=http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/geolinguistics/linguistic-diversity-in-africa-and-europe.html|date=16 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515155945/http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/geolinguistics/linguistic-diversity-in-africa-and-europe.html|archive-date=15 May 2012|access-date=4 July 2019|last=Pereltsvaig|first=Asya}}</ref> The three largest ethnic groups are the [[Hausa people|Hausa]] in [[Northern Region, Nigeria|the north]], [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] in [[Yorubaland|the west]], and [[Igbo people|Igbo]] in [[Igboland|the east]], together constituting over 60% of the total population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/attachments/summaries/NI-summary.pdf|title=Nigeria – CIA World Factbook 2019|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923163518/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/attachments/summaries/NI-summary.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[official language]] is [[Nigerian English|English]], chosen to facilitate linguistic unity at the national level.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mann|first=Charles C.|date=1990|title=Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED397681.pdf|access-date=10 July 2020|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202033702/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED397681.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Constitution of Nigeria|Nigeria's constitution]] ensures ''[[de jure]]'' [[freedom of religion]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Nigerian Constitution|url=http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#Powers_of_Federal_Republic_of_Nigeria|work=Nigeria Law|access-date=17 July 2015|archive-date=25 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525192058/http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#Powers_of_Federal_Republic_of_Nigeria|url-status=live}}</ref> and it is home to some of the world's largest [[Islam by country|Muslim]] and [[Christianity by country|Christian]] populations.<ref>{{cite web|title=The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/01/the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations/|website=Pew Research Center|date=April 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118120245/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/01/the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations/|url-status=live}}</ref> Nigeria is divided roughly in half between [[Muslims]], who live mostly in the north part of the country, and [[Christians]], who live mostly in the south; [[Traditional African religions|indigenous religions]], such as those native to the [[Odinani|Igbo]] and [[Yoruba religion|Yoruba]] ethnicities, are in the minority.<ref name="USEN">{{cite web|title=Nigeria Fact Sheet|url=https://photos.state.gov/libraries/nigeria/487468/pdfs/Nigeria%20overview%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|publisher=United States Embassy in Nigeria|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018101915/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/nigeria/487468/pdfs/Nigeria%20overview%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Nigeria is a [[multinational state]] inhabited by more than [[Demographics of Nigeria|250 ethnic groups]] speaking [[Languages of Nigeria|500 distinct languages]], all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ethnicity in Nigeria|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/africa-jan-june07-ethnic_04-05/|date=5 April 2007|publisher=PBS|access-date=9 May 2015|archive-date=6 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171006235712/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/africa-jan-june07-ethnic_04-05/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nigeria|url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG|website=Ethnologue|access-date=4 July 2019|archive-date=27 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210227084603/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Linguistic diversity in Africa and Europe – Languages Of The World|url=http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/geolinguistics/linguistic-diversity-in-africa-and-europe.html|date=16 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515155945/http://www.languagesoftheworld.info/geolinguistics/linguistic-diversity-in-africa-and-europe.html|archive-date=15 May 2012|access-date=4 July 2019|last=Pereltsvaig|first=Asya}}</ref> The three largest ethnic groups are the [[Hausa people|Hausa]] in [[Northern Region, Nigeria|the north]], [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] in [[Yorubaland|the west]], and [[Igbo people|Igbo]] in [[Igboland|the east]], together constituting over 60% of the total population.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/attachments/summaries/NI-summary.pdf|title=Nigeria – CIA World Factbook 2019|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923163518/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/attachments/summaries/NI-summary.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The [[official language]] is [[Nigerian English|English]], chosen to facilitate linguistic unity at the national level.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mann|first=Charles C.|date=1990|title=Choosing an Indigenous Official Language for Nigeria|url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED397681.pdf|access-date=10 July 2020|archive-date=2 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202033702/https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED397681.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Constitution of Nigeria|Nigeria's constitution]] ensures ''[[de jure]]'' [[freedom of religion]],<ref>{{cite web|title=Nigerian Constitution|url=http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#Powers_of_Federal_Republic_of_Nigeria|work=Nigeria Law|access-date=17 July 2015|archive-date=25 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160525192058/http://www.nigeria-law.org/ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm#Powers_of_Federal_Republic_of_Nigeria|url-status=live}}</ref> and it is home to some of the world's largest [[Islam by country|Muslim]] and [[Christianity by country|Christian]] populations.<ref>{{cite web|title=The countries with the 10 largest Christian populations and the 10 largest Muslim populations|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/01/the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations/|website=Pew Research Center|date=April 2019 |language=en-US|access-date=25 May 2020|archive-date=18 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118120245/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/01/the-countries-with-the-10-largest-christian-populations-and-the-10-largest-muslim-populations/|url-status=live}}</ref> Nigeria is divided roughly in half between [[Muslims]], who live mostly in the north part of the country, and [[Christians]], who live mostly in the south; [[Traditional African religions|indigenous religions]], such as those native to the [[Odinani|Igbo]] and [[Yoruba religion|Yoruba]] ethnicities, are in the minority.<ref name="USEN">{{cite web|title=Nigeria Fact Sheet|url=https://photos.state.gov/libraries/nigeria/487468/pdfs/Nigeria%20overview%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|publisher=United States Embassy in Nigeria|access-date=23 September 2018|archive-date=18 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201018101915/https://photos.state.gov/libraries/nigeria/487468/pdfs/Nigeria%20overview%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>Nigeria is a [[regional power]] in Africa and a [[middle power]] in international affairs. [[Economy of Nigeria|Nigeria's economy]] is the [[List of African countries by GDP (nominal)|fourth-largest in Africa]], the [[List of countries by GDP (nominal)|53rd-largest in the world]] by nominal [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], and [[List of countries by GDP (PPP)|27th-largest]] by [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]. Nigeria is referred to as the Giant of Africa<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> by its citizens</del> owing to its large population and<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> formerly large</del> [[economy]],<ref>{{cite journal|year=1959|title=Nigeria: The African giant|journal=[[The Round Table (journal)|The Round Table]]|volume=50|issue=197|pages=55–63|doi=10.1080/00358535908452221|issn=0035-8533 }}</ref> and is considered to be an [[emerging market]] by the [[World Bank]]. Nigeria is a founding member of the [[African Union]] and a member of many international organizations, including the [[United Nations]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], [[Non-Aligned Movement|NAM]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/non-aligned-movement-nam |title=Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) - The Nuclear Threat Initiative |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019023811/https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/non-aligned-movement-nam/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Economic Community of West African States]], [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] and [[OPEC]]. It is also a member of the informal [[Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley#Goldman Sachs|MINT]] group of countries and is one of the [[Next Eleven]] economies.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>Nigeria is a [[regional power]] in Africa and a [[middle power]] in international affairs. [[Economy of Nigeria|Nigeria's economy]] is the [[List of African countries by GDP (nominal)|fourth-largest in Africa]], the [[List of countries by GDP (nominal)|53rd-largest in the world]] by nominal [[Gross domestic product|GDP]], and [[List of countries by GDP (PPP)|27th-largest]] by [[Purchasing power parity|PPP]]. Nigeria is<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> often</ins> referred to as the Giant of Africa owing to its large population and [[economy]],<ref>{{cite journal|year=1959|title=Nigeria: The African giant|journal=[[The Round Table (journal)|The Round Table]]|volume=50|issue=197|pages=55–63|doi=10.1080/00358535908452221|issn=0035-8533 }}</ref> and is considered to be an [[emerging market]] by the [[World Bank]]. Nigeria is a founding member of the [[African Union]] and a member of many international organizations, including the [[United Nations]], the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], [[Non-Aligned Movement|NAM]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/non-aligned-movement-nam |title=Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) - The Nuclear Threat Initiative |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019023811/https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/non-aligned-movement-nam/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the [[Economic Community of West African States]], [[Organisation of Islamic Cooperation]] and [[OPEC]]. It is also a member of the informal [[Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley#Goldman Sachs|MINT]] group of countries and is one of the [[Next Eleven]] economies.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>== Etymology ==</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>== Etymology ==</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 138:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 138:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Nok sculpture Louvre 70-1998-11-1.jpg|thumb|[[Nok]] sculpture, [[terracotta]]]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Nok sculpture Louvre 70-1998-11-1.jpg|thumb|[[Nok]] sculpture, [[terracotta]]]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>The [[Nok culture|Nok civilization]] thrived between 1,500 BC and AD 200. It produced life-sized [[terracotta]] figures that are some of the earliest known sculptures in sub-Saharan Africa<ref name="PB 2014">Breunig, Peter. 2014. Nok: African Sculpture in Archaeological Context: p. 21.</ref><ref>Nicole Rupp, Peter Breunig & Stefanie Kahlheber, "[http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kahlheber/ Exploring the Nok Enigma] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112232/http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kahlheber/ |date=4 March 2016}}", ''Antiquity'' 82.316, June 2008.</ref><ref>B.E.B. Fagg, "The Nok Culture in Prehistory", ''Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria'' 1.4, December 1959.</ref><ref name="archaeology">{{cite book|last1=Kleiner|first1=Fred S. |first2=Christin J. |last2=Mamiya |title=Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives|publisher=[[Cengage Learning]]|edition=13, revised|year=2009|page=194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlVeuxIgjwQC&q=Nok+terracotta+earliest|isbn=978-0-495-57367-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm |title=Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.) &#124; Thematic Essay &#124; Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History &#124; The Metropolitan Museum of Art |publisher=Metmuseum.org |date=2 June 2014 |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-date=24 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024215836/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and smelted iron by about 550 BC and possibly a few centuries earlier.<ref name="Tylecote 1975 see below"/><ref name="Eggert 2014 51–59"/><ref name="Eggert 2014 53–54"/> Evidence of iron smelting has also been excavated at sites in the [[Nsukka]] region of southeast Nigeria: dating to 2000 BC at the site of <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[</del>Lejja<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del><ref name="Eze-Uzomaka">{{cite journal|title=Iron and its influence on the prehistoric site of Lejja|url=https://www.academia.edu/4103707|last1=Eze–Uzomaka|first1=Pamela|website=Academia.edu|publisher=University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206183226/https://www.academia.edu/4103707/Iron_and_its_influence_on_the_prehistoric_site_of_Lejja|url-status=live}}</ref> and to 750 BC and at the site of [[Opi (archaeological site)|Opi]].</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>The [[Nok culture|Nok civilization]] thrived between 1,500 BC and AD 200. It produced life-sized [[terracotta]] figures that are some of the earliest known sculptures in sub-Saharan Africa<ref name="PB 2014">Breunig, Peter. 2014. Nok: African Sculpture in Archaeological Context: p. 21.</ref><ref>Nicole Rupp, Peter Breunig & Stefanie Kahlheber, "[http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kahlheber/ Exploring the Nok Enigma] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112232/http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/kahlheber/ |date=4 March 2016}}", ''Antiquity'' 82.316, June 2008.</ref><ref>B.E.B. Fagg, "The Nok Culture in Prehistory", ''Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria'' 1.4, December 1959.</ref><ref name="archaeology">{{cite book|last1=Kleiner|first1=Fred S. |first2=Christin J. |last2=Mamiya |title=Gardner's Art Through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives|publisher=[[Cengage Learning]]|edition=13, revised|year=2009|page=194|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TlVeuxIgjwQC&q=Nok+terracotta+earliest|isbn=978-0-495-57367-8}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm |title=Nok Terracottas (500 B.C.–200 A.D.) &#124; Thematic Essay &#124; Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History &#124; The Metropolitan Museum of Art |publisher=Metmuseum.org |date=2 June 2014 |access-date=16 July 2014 |archive-date=24 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024215836/http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nok/hd_nok.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and smelted iron by about 550 BC and possibly a few centuries earlier.<ref name="Tylecote 1975 see below"/><ref name="Eggert 2014 51–59"/><ref name="Eggert 2014 53–54"/> Evidence of iron smelting has also been excavated at sites in the [[Nsukka]] region of southeast Nigeria: dating to 2000 BC at the site of Lejja<ref name="Eze-Uzomaka">{{cite journal|title=Iron and its influence on the prehistoric site of Lejja|url=https://www.academia.edu/4103707|last1=Eze–Uzomaka|first1=Pamela|website=Academia.edu|publisher=University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria|access-date=12 December 2014|archive-date=6 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201206183226/https://www.academia.edu/4103707/Iron_and_its_influence_on_the_prehistoric_site_of_Lejja|url-status=live}}</ref> and to 750 BC and at the site of [[Opi (archaeological site)|Opi]].</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>===Early history ===</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>===Early history ===</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 183:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 183:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>=== Fall of the First Republic and Civil War ===</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>=== Fall of the First Republic and Civil War ===</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>{{Main<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">|</del>|1966 Nigerian coup d'état|1966 Nigerian counter-coup|Nigerian Civil War}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>{{Main|1966 Nigerian coup d'état|1966 Nigerian counter-coup|Nigerian Civil War}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>The disequilibrium and perceived corruption of the electoral and political process led to two [[Coup d'état|military coups]] in 1966. The [[1966 Nigerian coup d'état|first coup was in January 1966]] and was led mostly by soldiers under Majors [[Emmanuel Ifeajuna]] (of the [[Igbo people|Igbo]] tribe), [[Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu]] ([[Northern Region, Nigeria|Northerner]] of [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern]] extraction) and [[Adewale Ademoyega]] (a Yoruba from the West). The coup plotters succeeded in assassinating Sir [[Ahmadu Bello]] and Sir [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] alongside prominent leaders of the Northern Region and Premier [[Ladoke Akintola|Samuel Akintola]] of the [[Western State (Nigeria)|Western Region]], but the plotters struggled to form a central government. Senate President [[Nwafor Orizu]] handed over government control to the [[Nigerian Army|Army]], under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General<ref>{{Cite news|last=Irede|first=Akin|title=Aguiyi-Ironsi: The murder that birthed Nigeria's northern hegemony|work=The Africa Report|date=17 March 2022|url=https://www.theafricareport.com/182958/aguiyi-ironsi-the-murder-that-birthed-nigerias-northern-hegemony/amp/|access-date=23 February 2023|archive-date=23 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223001544/https://www.theafricareport.com/182958/aguiyi-ironsi-the-murder-that-birthed-nigerias-northern-hegemony/amp/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi]]. Later, the counter-coup of 1966, supported primarily by Northern military officers, facilitated the rise of [[Yakubu Gowon]] as military head of state. Tension rose between north and south; [[1966 anti-Igbo pogrom|Igbos in northern cities suffered persecution]] and many fled to the [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern Region]].<ref>Falola and Heaton, ''A History of Nigeria'' (2008) pp 158–59.</ref>[[File:Biafra independent state map-en.svg|thumb|The [[Biafra|Republic of Biafra]] in June 1967, when it declared its independence from the rest of Nigeria]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>The disequilibrium and perceived corruption of the electoral and political process led to two [[Coup d'état|military coups]] in 1966. The [[1966 Nigerian coup d'état|first coup was in January 1966]] and was led mostly by soldiers under Majors [[Emmanuel Ifeajuna]] (of the [[Igbo people|Igbo]] tribe), [[Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu]] ([[Northern Region, Nigeria|Northerner]] of [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern]] extraction) and [[Adewale Ademoyega]] (a Yoruba from the West). The coup plotters succeeded in assassinating Sir [[Ahmadu Bello]] and Sir [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] alongside prominent leaders of the Northern Region and Premier [[Ladoke Akintola|Samuel Akintola]] of the [[Western State (Nigeria)|Western Region]], but the plotters struggled to form a central government. Senate President [[Nwafor Orizu]] handed over government control to the [[Nigerian Army|Army]], under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General<ref>{{Cite news|last=Irede|first=Akin|title=Aguiyi-Ironsi: The murder that birthed Nigeria's northern hegemony|work=The Africa Report|date=17 March 2022|url=https://www.theafricareport.com/182958/aguiyi-ironsi-the-murder-that-birthed-nigerias-northern-hegemony/amp/|access-date=23 February 2023|archive-date=23 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230223001544/https://www.theafricareport.com/182958/aguiyi-ironsi-the-murder-that-birthed-nigerias-northern-hegemony/amp/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi]]. Later, the counter-coup of 1966, supported primarily by Northern military officers, facilitated the rise of [[Yakubu Gowon]] as military head of state. Tension rose between north and south; [[1966 anti-Igbo pogrom|Igbos in northern cities suffered persecution]] and many fled to the [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern Region]].<ref>Falola and Heaton, ''A History of Nigeria'' (2008) pp 158–59.</ref>[[File:Biafra independent state map-en.svg|thumb|The [[Biafra|Republic of Biafra]] in June 1967, when it declared its independence from the rest of Nigeria]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>In May 1967, Governor of the [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern Region]] Lt. Colonel [[C. Odumegwu Ojukwu|Emeka Ojukwu]] declared the region independent from the federation as a state called the [[Biafra|Republic of Biafra]], as a result of the continuous and systematically planned attacks against Igbos and those of [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern]] extraction popularly known as 1966 [[1966 anti-Igbo pogrom|pogroms]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Murray|first=Senan|title=Reopening Nigeria's civil war wounds|work=BBC News|date=30 May 2007|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6657259.stm|access-date=28 May 2011|archive-date=5 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305112039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6657259.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Daly|first=Samuel Fury Childs|title=A History of the Republic of Biafra|date=7 August 2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781108887748|isbn=978-1-108-88774-8|s2cid=225266768}}</ref> This declaration precipitated the [[Nigerian Civil War]], which began as the official Nigerian government side attacked Biafra on 6 July 1967, at Garkem. The 30-month war, with a long [[blockade of Biafra]] and its isolation from trade and international relief, ended in January 1970.<ref name="DDRS">''"Background Paper on Nigeria and Biafra, Declassified Documents Reference System''.</ref> Estimates of the [[List of wars by death toll|number of dead]] in the former Eastern Region during the 30-month civil war range from one to three million.<ref>{{cite web|last=Metz|first=Helen Chapin|title=Nigeria: A Country Study – Civil War|publisher=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]|year=1991|url=http://countrystudies.us/nigeria/23.htm|access-date=28 May 2011|archive-date=5 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605003652/http://countrystudies.us/nigeria/23.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Britain and the Soviet Union were the main military backers of the Nigerian government, with Nigeria utilizing air support from Egyptian pilots provided by [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]],<ref>{{cite web|title=''The Biafra War and the Age of Pestilence''|url=http://www.litencyc.com/theliterarymagazine/biafra.php|access-date=28 July 2014|publisher=Litencyc.com|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820081648/https://www.litencyc.com/theliterarymagazine/biafra.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Michael I. Draper, ''Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967–1970''.</ref> while France and Israel aided the Biafrans. The [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] government, under President [[Mobutu Sese Seko|Joseph-Désiré Mobutu]], took an early stand on the Biafran secession, voicing strong support for the Nigerian federal government<ref>McDonald, Gordon C., ''Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa)'' (1971), p. 263</ref> and deploying thousands of troops to fight against the [[Separatist movements of Nigeria|secessionists]].<ref>Stearns, Jason K. ''[[Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa]]'' (2011), p. 115</ref><ref>Wrong, Michela. ''In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo'' (2000), p. 266</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>In May 1967, Governor of the [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern Region]] Lt. Colonel [[C. Odumegwu Ojukwu|Emeka Ojukwu]] declared the region independent from the federation as a state called the [[Biafra|Republic of Biafra]], as a result of the continuous and systematically planned attacks against Igbos and those of [[Eastern Region, Nigeria|Eastern]] extraction popularly known as 1966 [[1966 anti-Igbo pogrom|pogroms]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Murray|first=Senan|title=Reopening Nigeria's civil war wounds|work=BBC News|date=30 May 2007|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6657259.stm|access-date=28 May 2011|archive-date=5 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120305112039/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6657259.stm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Daly|first=Samuel Fury Childs|title=A History of the Republic of Biafra|date=7 August 2020|publisher=Cambridge University Press|doi=10.1017/9781108887748|isbn=978-1-108-88774-8|s2cid=225266768}}</ref> This declaration precipitated the [[Nigerian Civil War]], which began as the official Nigerian government side attacked Biafra on 6 July 1967, at Garkem. The 30-month war, with a long [[blockade of Biafra]] and its isolation from trade and international relief, ended in January 1970.<ref name="DDRS">''"Background Paper on Nigeria and Biafra, Declassified Documents Reference System''.</ref> Estimates of the [[List of wars by death toll|number of dead]] in the former Eastern Region during the 30-month civil war range from one to three million.<ref>{{cite web|last=Metz|first=Helen Chapin|title=Nigeria: A Country Study – Civil War|publisher=[[Library of Congress Country Studies]]|year=1991|url=http://countrystudies.us/nigeria/23.htm|access-date=28 May 2011|archive-date=5 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110605003652/http://countrystudies.us/nigeria/23.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Britain and the Soviet Union were the main military backers of the Nigerian government, with Nigeria utilizing air support from Egyptian pilots provided by [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]],<ref>{{cite web|title=''The Biafra War and the Age of Pestilence''|url=http://www.litencyc.com/theliterarymagazine/biafra.php|access-date=28 July 2014|publisher=Litencyc.com|archive-date=20 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820081648/https://www.litencyc.com/theliterarymagazine/biafra.php|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>Michael I. Draper, ''Shadows: Airlift and Airwar in Biafra and Nigeria 1967–1970''.</ref> while France and Israel aided the Biafrans. The [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congolese]] government, under President [[Mobutu Sese Seko|Joseph-Désiré Mobutu]], took an early stand on the Biafran secession, voicing strong support for the Nigerian federal government<ref>McDonald, Gordon C., ''Area Handbook for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo Kinshasa)'' (1971), p. 263</ref> and deploying thousands of troops to fight against the [[Separatist movements of Nigeria|secessionists]].<ref>Stearns, Jason K. ''[[Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa]]'' (2011), p. 115</ref><ref>Wrong, Michela. ''In the Footsteps of Mr Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo'' (2000), p. 266</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Jimmy Carter and Lt. Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo during arrival ceremonies for the President's state visit to Nigeria. - NARA - 178636.tif|thumb|U.S. President [[Jimmy Carter]] with Obasanjo in Lagos for the first state visit of an American president to [[Sub-Saharan Africa|sub-saharan Africa]] in 1978]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>=== Post–Civil War and dictatorships (1970–1999) ===</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>{{main|Military dictatorship in Nigeria|Second Nigerian Republic|Third Nigerian Republic}}</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Following the war, Nigeria enjoyed an [[oil boom]] in the 1970s, during which the country joined [[OPEC]] and received huge oil revenues. Despite these revenues, the military government did little to improve the [[standard of living]], help small and medium businesses, or invest in infrastructure. As oil revenues fueled the rise of federal subsidies to states, the federal government became the centre of political struggle and the threshold of power in the country. As oil production and revenue rose, the Nigerian government became increasingly dependent on oil revenues and international commodity markets for budgetary and economic concerns.<ref>Watts, Michael (1987) ''State, Oil and Agriculture in Nigeria'', Institute of International Studies, University of California, {{ISBN|0-87725-166-5}}.</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Following the war, Nigeria enjoyed an [[oil boom]] in the 1970s, during which the country joined [[OPEC]] and received huge oil revenues. Despite these revenues, the military government did little to improve the [[standard of living]], help small and medium businesses, or invest in infrastructure. As oil revenues fueled the rise of federal subsidies to states, the federal government became the centre of political struggle and the threshold of power in the country. As oil production and revenue rose, the Nigerian government became increasingly dependent on oil revenues and international commodity markets for budgetary and economic concerns.<ref>Watts, Michael (1987) ''State, Oil and Agriculture in Nigeria'', Institute of International Studies, University of California, {{ISBN|0-87725-166-5}}.</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 197:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 193:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Colonel [[Buka Suka Dimka]] launched a [[1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt|February 1976 coup attempt]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Joliba |date=13 February 2015 |title=Failed Coup Attempt of 1976 |url=https://joliba-africa.com/2015/02/13/failed-coup-attempt-of-1976/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |website=Joliba |archive-date=27 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627112021/https://joliba-africa.com/2015/02/13/failed-coup-attempt-of-1976/ |url-status=live }}</ref> during which General Murtala Muhammed was assassinated. Dimka lacked widespread support among the military, and his coup failed, forcing him to flee.{{sfn|Iliffe|2011|p=48}} After the coup attempt, General Olusegun Obasanjo was appointed military head of state.{{sfnm|1a1=Iliffe|1y=2011|1pp=48-49|2a1=Derfler|2y=2011|2p=85}} Obasanjo vowed to continue Murtala's policies.{{sfnm|1a1=Iliffe|1y=2011|1p=50|2a1=Derfler|2y=2011|2p=85}} Aware of the danger of alienating northern Nigerians, Obasanjo brought General Shehu Yar'Adua as his replacement and second-in-command as [[Vice President of Nigeria|Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters]] completing the military triumvirate, with Obasanjo as head of state and General Theophilus Danjuma as [[Chief of Army Staff (Nigeria)|Chief of Army Staff]], the three went on to re-establish control over the [[Nigerian military juntas of 1966–79 and 1983–99|military regime]] and organized the military's transfer of power programme: [[States of Nigeria|states creation]] and [[Boundary delimitation|national delimitation]], [[Local government areas of Nigeria|local government reforms]] and the [[Constitution of Nigeria#1979 constitution (Second Republic)|constitutional drafting committee]] for a new republic.<ref>African Concord (1990). The New Helmsmen. Concord Press, Ikeja, Lagos. 13 August 1990</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Colonel [[Buka Suka Dimka]] launched a [[1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt|February 1976 coup attempt]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Joliba |date=13 February 2015 |title=Failed Coup Attempt of 1976 |url=https://joliba-africa.com/2015/02/13/failed-coup-attempt-of-1976/ |access-date=27 June 2023 |website=Joliba |archive-date=27 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627112021/https://joliba-africa.com/2015/02/13/failed-coup-attempt-of-1976/ |url-status=live }}</ref> during which General Murtala Muhammed was assassinated. Dimka lacked widespread support among the military, and his coup failed, forcing him to flee.{{sfn|Iliffe|2011|p=48}} After the coup attempt, General Olusegun Obasanjo was appointed military head of state.{{sfnm|1a1=Iliffe|1y=2011|1pp=48-49|2a1=Derfler|2y=2011|2p=85}} Obasanjo vowed to continue Murtala's policies.{{sfnm|1a1=Iliffe|1y=2011|1p=50|2a1=Derfler|2y=2011|2p=85}} Aware of the danger of alienating northern Nigerians, Obasanjo brought General Shehu Yar'Adua as his replacement and second-in-command as [[Vice President of Nigeria|Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters]] completing the military triumvirate, with Obasanjo as head of state and General Theophilus Danjuma as [[Chief of Army Staff (Nigeria)|Chief of Army Staff]], the three went on to re-establish control over the [[Nigerian military juntas of 1966–79 and 1983–99|military regime]] and organized the military's transfer of power programme: [[States of Nigeria|states creation]] and [[Boundary delimitation|national delimitation]], [[Local government areas of Nigeria|local government reforms]] and the [[Constitution of Nigeria#1979 constitution (Second Republic)|constitutional drafting committee]] for a new republic.<ref>African Concord (1990). The New Helmsmen. Concord Press, Ikeja, Lagos. 13 August 1990</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Alhaji Shehu Shagari (President, Federal Republic of Nigeria 1979 - 1983).jpg|thumb|[[Shehu Shagari]] was the first elected [[President of Nigeria]] from 1979 to 1983.]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>=== Second Republic and military dictatorship ===</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>The military carefully planned the return to civilian rule putting in place measures to ensure that political parties had broader support than witnessed during the first republic. In [[1979 Nigerian presidential election|1979]], five political parties competed in a series of elections in which Alhaji [[Shehu Shagari]] of the [[National Party of Nigeria]] (NPN) was elected president. All five parties won representation in the National Assembly. On 1 October 1979, Shehu Shagari was sworn in as the first [[President of Nigeria|President and Commander-in-Chief]] of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Obasanjo peacefully transferred power to Shagari, becoming the first head of state in Nigerian history to willingly step down.</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>{{main|Second Nigerian Republic|Military dictatorship in Nigeria}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Nigerian Public Domain 145.jpg|thumb|General [[Ibrahim Babangida]] masterminded the [[Military coups in Nigeria|coup d'etat]]'s of [[1983 Nigerian coup d'état|1983]] and [[1985 Nigerian coup d'état|1985]].]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>The Shagari government became viewed as corrupt by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society. In 1983, the inspectors of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation began to notice "the slow poisoning of the waters of this country".<ref>David Williams, ''President and power in Nigeria: The life of Shehu Shagari'' (Routledge, 2018).</ref> In August 1983, Shagari and the NPN were returned to power in a landslide victory, with a majority of seats in the National Assembly and control of 12 state governments. But the elections were marred by violence, and allegations of widespread vote-rigging and electoral malfeasance led to legal battles over the results. There were also uncertainties, such as in the first republic, that political leaders may be unable to govern properly.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">The military carefully planned the return to civilian rule putting in place measures to ensure that political parties had broader support than witnessed during the first republic. In 1979, five political parties competed in a series of elections in which Alhaji [[Shehu Shagari]] of the [[National Party of Nigeria]] (NPN) was elected president. All five parties won representation in the National Assembly. On 1 October 1979, Shehu Shagari was sworn in as the first [[President of Nigeria|President and Commander-in-Chief]] of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Obasanjo peacefully transferred power to Shagari, becoming the first head of state in Nigerian history to willingly step down.[[File:Shehu Shagari 1980-10-07.jpg|thumb|[[Shehu Shagari]] was the first elected [[President of Nigeria]] from 1979 to 1983.|upright]]</ins>The Shagari government became viewed as corrupt by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society. In 1983, the inspectors of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation began to notice "the slow poisoning of the waters of this country".<ref>David Williams, ''President and power in Nigeria: The life of Shehu Shagari'' (Routledge, 2018).</ref> In August 1983, Shagari and the NPN were returned to power in a landslide victory, with a majority of seats in the National Assembly and control of 12 state governments. But the elections were marred by violence, and allegations of widespread vote-rigging and electoral malfeasance led to legal battles over the results. There were also uncertainties, such as in the first republic, that political leaders may be unable to govern properly.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>The [[1983 Nigerian coup d'état|1983 military coup d'état]] was coordinated by key officers of the Nigerian military and led to the overthrow of the government and the installation of Major General [[Muhammadu Buhari]] as head of state. The military coup of Muhammadu Buhari shortly after the regime's re-election in 1984 was generally viewed as a positive development.<ref>"Nigeria, Military Faces Daunting Challenges", AP Press International, 3{{nbsp}}March 1984. Retrieved 22 February 2007.</ref> In 1985, [[Ibrahim Babangida]] overthrew Buhari in a coup d'état. In 1986, Babangida established the [[Nigerian Political Bureau of 1986|Nigerian Political Bureau]] which made recommendations for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. In 1989, Babangida started making plans for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. Babangida survived the [[1990 Nigerian coup d'état attempt]], then postponed a promised return to democracy to 1992.<ref>{{Citation |last=Siollun |first=Max |title=Civil Military Affairs and Military Culture in Post-Transition Nigeria |date=25 October 2018 |work=The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics |pages=272–287 |editor1-last=Levan |editor1-first=Carl |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198804307.013.13 |isbn=978-0-19-880430-7 |editor2-last=Ukata |editor2-first=Patrick}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>The [[1983 Nigerian coup d'état|1983 military coup d'état]] was coordinated by key officers of the Nigerian military and led to the overthrow of the government and the installation of Major General [[Muhammadu Buhari]] as head of state. The military coup of Muhammadu Buhari shortly after the regime's re-election in 1984 was generally viewed as a positive development.<ref>"Nigeria, Military Faces Daunting Challenges", AP Press International, 3{{nbsp}}March 1984. Retrieved 22 February 2007.</ref> In 1985, [[Ibrahim Babangida]] overthrew Buhari in a coup d'état. In 1986, Babangida established the [[Nigerian Political Bureau of 1986|Nigerian Political Bureau]] which made recommendations for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. In 1989, Babangida started making plans for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. Babangida survived the [[1990 Nigerian coup d'état attempt]], then postponed a promised return to democracy to 1992.<ref>{{Citation |last=Siollun |first=Max |title=Civil Military Affairs and Military Culture in Post-Transition Nigeria |date=25 October 2018 |work=The Oxford Handbook of Nigerian Politics |pages=272–287 |editor1-last=Levan |editor1-first=Carl |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198804307.013.13 |isbn=978-0-19-880430-7 |editor2-last=Ukata |editor2-first=Patrick}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Geopolitical Zones of Nigeria.svg|thumb|Map of the six [[geopolitical zones of Nigeria]] adopted in the 1990s]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>=== 12 June and the crisis of the Third Republic ===</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>{{Main|Third Nigerian Republic|1993 Nigerian presidential election}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Babangida legalized the formation of political parties and formed the two-party system with the [[Social Democratic Party (Nigeria)|Social Democratic Party]] and [[National Republican Convention]] ahead of the [[1992 Nigerian parliamentary election|1992 general elections]]. He urged all Nigerians to join either of the parties, which Chief [[Bola Ige]] referred to as "two leper hands". The [[1993 Nigerian presidential election|1993 presidential election]] held on 12 June was the first since the military coup of 1983. The results, though not officially declared by the National Electoral Commission, showed the duo of [[Moshood Abiola]] and [[Baba Gana Kingibe]] of the Social Democratic Party defeated [[Bashir Tofa]] and [[Sylvester Ugoh]] of the National Republican Convention by over 2.3&nbsp;million votes. However, Babangida annulled the elections, leading to massive civilian protests that effectively shut down the country for weeks. In August 1993, Babangida finally kept his promise to relinquish power to a civilian government but not before appointing [[Ernest Shonekan]] head of an [[Cabinet of Ernest Shonekan|interim national government]].<ref>Bilski, Andrew, "Broken Promises", ''Maclean'', 6 September 1993.</ref> Babangida's regime has been considered the most corrupt and responsible for creating a culture of corruption in Nigeria.<ref>Diamond, Larry; [[Kirk-Greene, Anthony]]; [[Oyeleye Oyediran]] (1997) ''Transition without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida'', Vantage Publishers, {{ISBN|978-2458-54-6}}.</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Babangida legalized the formation of political parties and formed the two-party system with the [[Social Democratic Party (Nigeria)|Social Democratic Party]] and [[National Republican Convention]] ahead of the [[1992 Nigerian parliamentary election|1992 general elections]]. He urged all Nigerians to join either of the parties, which Chief [[Bola Ige]] referred to as "two leper hands". The [[1993 Nigerian presidential election|1993 presidential election]] held on 12 June was the first since the military coup of 1983. The results, though not officially declared by the National Electoral Commission, showed the duo of [[Moshood Abiola]] and [[Baba Gana Kingibe]] of the Social Democratic Party defeated [[Bashir Tofa]] and [[Sylvester Ugoh]] of the National Republican Convention by over 2.3&nbsp;million votes. However, Babangida annulled the elections, leading to massive civilian protests that effectively shut down the country for weeks. In August 1993, Babangida finally kept his promise to relinquish power to a civilian government but not before appointing [[Ernest Shonekan]] head of an [[Cabinet of Ernest Shonekan|interim national government]].<ref>Bilski, Andrew, "Broken Promises", ''Maclean'', 6 September 1993.</ref> Babangida's regime has been considered the most corrupt and responsible for creating a culture of corruption in Nigeria.<ref>Diamond, Larry; [[Kirk-Greene, Anthony]]; [[Oyeleye Oyediran]] (1997) ''Transition without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida'', Vantage Publishers, {{ISBN|978-2458-54-6}}.</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Abdulsalami Abubakar detail DF-SC-02-04323.jpg|thumb|[[Abdulsalami Abubakar]], military ruler in 1998 saw the return to democracy in 1999|upright]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Abdulsalami Abubakar detail DF-SC-02-04323.jpg|thumb|[[Abdulsalami Abubakar]], military ruler in 1998 saw the return to democracy in 1999|upright]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 212:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 209:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>{{Main|Fourth Nigerian Republic}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>{{Main|Fourth Nigerian Republic}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Olusegun Obasanjo DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Olusegun Obasanjo]] served as president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.|upright]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Olusegun Obasanjo DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg|thumb|[[Olusegun Obasanjo]] served as president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.|upright]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>On 29 May 1999, Abubakar handed over power to the winner of the <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[1999 Nigerian presidential election|</del>1999 presidential election<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</del>, former military ruler General [[Olusegun Obasanjo]], as President of Nigeria. Obasanjo had been in prison under the dictatorship of Abacha. Obasanjo's inauguration heralded the beginning of the Fourth Nigerian Republic,<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2391/Abdusalam-Abubakar "Abdusalam Abubakar"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504215600/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2391/Abdusalam-Abubakar |date=4 May 2015 }}, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, accessed 26 October 2012.</ref> ending a 39-year period of short-lived democracies, civil war and military dictatorship. Although the elections that brought Obasanjo to power and allowed him to run for a second term in the 2003 presidential elections were condemned as unfree and unfair, Nigeria made significant progress in democratization under Obasanjo.<ref>Falola and Heaton, ''A History of Nigeria'' (2008) pp. 211–34.</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>On 29 May 1999, Abubakar handed over power to the winner of the 1999 presidential election, former military ruler General [[Olusegun Obasanjo]], as President of Nigeria. Obasanjo had been in prison under the dictatorship of Abacha. Obasanjo's inauguration heralded the beginning of the Fourth Nigerian Republic,<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2391/Abdusalam-Abubakar "Abdusalam Abubakar"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150504215600/http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/2391/Abdusalam-Abubakar |date=4 May 2015 }}, Encyclopædia Britannica Online, accessed 26 October 2012.</ref> ending a 39-year period of short-lived democracies, civil war and military dictatorship. Although the elections that brought Obasanjo to power and allowed him to run for a second term in the 2003 presidential elections were condemned as unfree and unfair, Nigeria made significant progress in democratization under Obasanjo.<ref>Falola and Heaton, ''A History of Nigeria'' (2008) pp. 211–34.</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>In the 2007 general elections, [[Umaru Musa Yar'Adua|Umaru Yar'Adua]] of the People's Democratic Party came to power. The international community, which had observed the Nigerian elections to promote a free and fair process, condemned these elections as seriously flawed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Final Report|url=http://www.eueom-ng.org/Files/final_report.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032839/http://www.eueom-ng.org/Files/final_report.pdf|archive-date=16 February 2008|access-date=24 January 2008|publisher=EU Election Observation Mission Nigeria 2007}}</ref> Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010, and Vice President [[Goodluck Jonathan]] had been sworn in by the Senate three months earlier as acting president to succeed Yar'Adua.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 May 2010|title=NASS confirms Sambo as vice president|url=https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/movie/24352/nass-confirm-sambo-as-vice-president.html|access-date=29 May 2011|work=[[The Nigerian Voice]]|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805081015/https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/movie/24352/nass-confirm-sambo-as-vice-president.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Akinlade|first=Muruf|date=18 May 2010|title=National Assembly confirms Sambo as Vice President|url=http://www.myondostate.com/myondostate/newssend.php?id=203|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427025349/http://www.myondostate.com/myondostate/newssend.php?id=203|archive-date=27 April 2011|access-date=29 May 2011|publisher=MyOndoState.Com}}</ref> Jonathan won the 2011 presidential election; the polls went smoothly and with relatively little violence or electoral fraud.<ref name="New York2">{{cite news|last=Nossiter|first=Adam|date=16 April 2011|title=Nigerians Vote in Presidential Election|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/africa/17nigeria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|access-date=17 April 2011|archive-date=24 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824165122/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/africa/17nigeria.html?pagewanted=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Jonathan's tenure saw an economic recovery that made Nigeria the leading economic power in Africa.<ref>{{cite web |last=Times |first=Premium |date=23 December 2014 |title=Nigerian economy among world's largest - Jonathan |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173732-nigerian-economy-among-worlds-largest-jonathan.html |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Premium Times Nigeria |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085504/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173732-nigerian-economy-among-worlds-largest-jonathan.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=eribake |first=akintayo |date=24 December 2014 |title=Nigeria's economy among largest in the world — Jonathan |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/nigerias-economy-among-largest-world-jonathan/ |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Vanguard News |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085507/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/nigerias-economy-among-largest-world-jonathan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Jonathan administration also saw an increase in unparalleled corruption, with as many as 20 billion US dollars said to have been lost to the Nigerian state through the national oil company. Above all, however, Jonathan's tenure saw the emergence of a wave of terror by the [[Boko Haram insurgency]], such as the [[Gwoza massacre]] and [[Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last=Udo |first=Bassey |date=14 May 2015 |title=Missing $20 bn: Sanusi faults Alison-Madueke, says audit report proves at least $18.5bn lost |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/182926-missing-20-bn-sanusi-faults-alison-madueke-says-audit-report-proves-at-least-18-5bn-lost.html |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Premium Times Nigeria |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085505/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/182926-missing-20-bn-sanusi-faults-alison-madueke-says-audit-report-proves-at-least-18-5bn-lost.html |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>In the 2007 general elections, [[Umaru Musa Yar'Adua|Umaru Yar'Adua]] of the People's Democratic Party came to power. The international community, which had observed the Nigerian elections to promote a free and fair process, condemned these elections as seriously flawed.<ref>{{cite web|title=Final Report|url=http://www.eueom-ng.org/Files/final_report.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216032839/http://www.eueom-ng.org/Files/final_report.pdf|archive-date=16 February 2008|access-date=24 January 2008|publisher=EU Election Observation Mission Nigeria 2007}}</ref> Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010, and Vice President [[Goodluck Jonathan]] had been sworn in by the Senate three months earlier as acting president to succeed Yar'Adua.<ref>{{cite web|date=18 May 2010|title=NASS confirms Sambo as vice president|url=https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/movie/24352/nass-confirm-sambo-as-vice-president.html|access-date=29 May 2011|work=[[The Nigerian Voice]]|archive-date=5 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805081015/https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/movie/24352/nass-confirm-sambo-as-vice-president.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Akinlade|first=Muruf|date=18 May 2010|title=National Assembly confirms Sambo as Vice President|url=http://www.myondostate.com/myondostate/newssend.php?id=203|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110427025349/http://www.myondostate.com/myondostate/newssend.php?id=203|archive-date=27 April 2011|access-date=29 May 2011|publisher=MyOndoState.Com}}</ref> Jonathan won the 2011 presidential election; the polls went smoothly and with relatively little violence or electoral fraud.<ref name="New York2">{{cite news|last=Nossiter|first=Adam|date=16 April 2011|title=Nigerians Vote in Presidential Election|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/africa/17nigeria.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hp|access-date=17 April 2011|archive-date=24 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824165122/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/world/africa/17nigeria.html?pagewanted=1|url-status=live}}</ref> Jonathan's tenure saw an economic recovery that made Nigeria the leading economic power in Africa.<ref>{{cite web |last=Times |first=Premium |date=23 December 2014 |title=Nigerian economy among world's largest - Jonathan |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173732-nigerian-economy-among-worlds-largest-jonathan.html |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Premium Times Nigeria |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085504/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/173732-nigerian-economy-among-worlds-largest-jonathan.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=eribake |first=akintayo |date=24 December 2014 |title=Nigeria's economy among largest in the world — Jonathan |url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/nigerias-economy-among-largest-world-jonathan/ |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Vanguard News |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085507/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/nigerias-economy-among-largest-world-jonathan/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Jonathan administration also saw an increase in unparalleled corruption, with as many as 20 billion US dollars said to have been lost to the Nigerian state through the national oil company. Above all, however, Jonathan's tenure saw the emergence of a wave of terror by the [[Boko Haram insurgency]], such as the [[Gwoza massacre]] and [[Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping]] in 2014.<ref>{{cite web |last=Udo |first=Bassey |date=14 May 2015 |title=Missing $20 bn: Sanusi faults Alison-Madueke, says audit report proves at least $18.5bn lost |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/182926-missing-20-bn-sanusi-faults-alison-madueke-says-audit-report-proves-at-least-18-5bn-lost.html |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Premium Times Nigeria |language=en-GB |archive-date=4 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221004085505/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/182926-missing-20-bn-sanusi-faults-alison-madueke-says-audit-report-proves-at-least-18-5bn-lost.html |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Incoming and Outgoing Nigerian Presidents Wave to Crowd Amid Peaceful Inaugural in Abuja.jpg|thumb|The [[First inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari|inauguration of Muhammadu Buhari]] where [[Goodluck Jonathan]] became the first incumbent Nigerian president to concede defeat in 2015 ]]</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"><a class="mw-diff-movedpara-left" title="Paragraph was moved. Click to jump to new location." href="#movedpara_39_0_rhs">⚫</a></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div><a name="movedpara_37_1_lhs"></a>Ahead of the [[2015 Nigerian general election|general election of 2015]], a merger of the biggest opposition parties in Nigeria – the [[Action Congress of Nigeria]], the [[Congress for Progressive Change]], the [[All Nigeria Peoples Party]], a faction of the [[All Progressives Grand Alliance]] and the new PDP (a faction of serving governors of the ruling People's Democratic Party) – formed the [[All Progressives Congress]] led by current president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At the time, it was the most expensive election ever to be held on the African continent (being surpassed only by the elections of [[2019 Nigerian general election|2019]] and [[2023 Nigerian presidential election|2023]]). The new mega-opposition party chose as their candidate for the election former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes. Observers generally praised the election as being fair.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nigeria election: Muhammadu Buhari wins|newspaper=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32139858|access-date=31 March 2015|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125205929/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32139858|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=1 April 2015|title=Obama praises Nigeria's president for conceding defeat|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/obama-praises-nigerias-president-for-conceding-defeat/|access-date=4 April 2015|publisher=Vanguard|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821192325/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/obama-praises-nigerias-president-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=APC praises Jonathan for conceding defeat|url=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|magazine=The Nation|access-date=4 April 2015|archive-date=8 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708183124/http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=31 March 2015|title=Anyaoku Praises Jonathan For Conceding Defeat|url=http://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/31/anyaoku-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|access-date=4 April 2015|publisher=Channels Television|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821192329/https://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/31/anyaoku-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref> The election marked the first time an incumbent president had lost re-election in Nigeria. In the [[2019 Nigerian general election|2019 presidential election]], Buhari was re-elected.<ref>{{cite web|last=AfricaNews|date=27 February 2019|title=Buhari beats Atiku to secure re-election as Nigeria president|url=https://www.africanews.com/2019/02/27/buhari-beats-atiku-to-secure-re-election-as-nigeria-president/|access-date=5 July 2020|website=Africanews|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924063323/https://www.africanews.com/2019/02/27/buhari-beats-atiku-to-secure-re-election-as-nigeria-president/|url-status=live}}</ref><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[File:Bola Tinubu portrait.jpg|thumb|Chief [[Bola Tinubu]] is currently serving as President of Nigeria since 29 May 2023.|upright]]</del></div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-deleted"></td> <td class="diff-marker"><a class="mw-diff-movedpara-right" title="Paragraph was moved. Click to jump to old location." href="#movedpara_37_1_lhs">⚫</a></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div><a name="movedpara_39_0_rhs"></a>Ahead of the [[2015 Nigerian general election|general election of 2015]], a merger of the biggest opposition parties in Nigeria – the [[Action Congress of Nigeria]], the [[Congress for Progressive Change]], the [[All Nigeria Peoples Party]], a faction of the [[All Progressives Grand Alliance]] and the new PDP (a faction of serving governors of the ruling People's Democratic Party) – formed the [[All Progressives Congress]] led by current president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At the time, it was the most expensive election ever to be held on the African continent (being surpassed only by the elections of [[2019 Nigerian general election|2019]] and [[2023 Nigerian presidential election|2023]]). The new mega-opposition party chose as their candidate for the election former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes. Observers generally praised the election as being fair.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nigeria election: Muhammadu Buhari wins|newspaper=BBC|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32139858|access-date=31 March 2015|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125205929/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-32139858|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=1 April 2015|title=Obama praises Nigeria's president for conceding defeat|url=http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/obama-praises-nigerias-president-for-conceding-defeat/|access-date=4 April 2015|publisher=Vanguard|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821192325/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/04/obama-praises-nigerias-president-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=APC praises Jonathan for conceding defeat|url=http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|magazine=The Nation|access-date=4 April 2015|archive-date=8 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150708183124/http://thenationonlineng.net/new/apc-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=31 March 2015|title=Anyaoku Praises Jonathan For Conceding Defeat|url=http://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/31/anyaoku-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|access-date=4 April 2015|publisher=Channels Television|archive-date=21 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821192329/https://www.channelstv.com/2015/03/31/anyaoku-praises-jonathan-for-conceding-defeat/|url-status=live}}</ref> The election marked the first time an incumbent president had lost re-election in Nigeria. In the [[2019 Nigerian general election|2019 presidential election]], Buhari was re-elected.<ref>{{cite web|last=AfricaNews|date=27 February 2019|title=Buhari beats Atiku to secure re-election as Nigeria president|url=https://www.africanews.com/2019/02/27/buhari-beats-atiku-to-secure-re-election-as-nigeria-president/|access-date=5 July 2020|website=Africanews|archive-date=24 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924063323/https://www.africanews.com/2019/02/27/buhari-beats-atiku-to-secure-re-election-as-nigeria-president/|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>Four candidates vied for the presidency in the [[2023 Nigerian presidential election|2023 presidential election]]. For the first time since the return of democracy, no former military ruler ran for president, marking a strengthening of democracy and faith in the [[Constitution of Nigeria|multiparty constitution]]. The election also saw the rise of metonymic supporters of the new candidates, the [[Obidient Movement|Obidient movement]] of [[Peter Obi]], previously governor of Anambra State, widely appealed to young, urban voters and has his core base in the Southeast;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lasisi |first=Olukayode Joshua |date=29 September 2022 |title=Peter Obi leads in new poll, Google search interest |url=https://businessday.ng/politics/article/peter-obi-leads-in-new-poll-google-search-interest/ |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Businessday NG |language=en-US |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202040603/https://businessday.ng/politics/article/peter-obi-leads-in-new-poll-google-search-interest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Kwankwassiya of [[Rabiu Kwankwaso]], former governor of [[Kano State]] in the Northwest.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Olurounbi |first1=Eromo Egbejule,Ruth |title=How Rabiu Kwankwaso became wildcard in Nigerian presidential race |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/1/kwankwaso-went-from-unpopular-governor-to-nigerian-presidential-wildcard |work=aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=24 August 2023 |archive-date=24 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924073749/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/1/kwankwaso-went-from-unpopular-governor-to-nigerian-presidential-wildcard |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[Bola Tinubu]], of the ruling party, won the disputed election with 36.61% of the vote,<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigeria presidential election results 2023 by the numbers |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28/nigeria-presidential-election-results-2023 |work=aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=9 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230809010308/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28/nigeria-presidential-election-results-2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> but both runners-up claimed victory and litigation is ongoing in an election tribunal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigeria local elections open in shadow of contested national vote |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/18/nigeria-local-elections-open-in-shadow-of-contested-vote |work=www.aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=18 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818143649/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/18/nigeria-local-elections-open-in-shadow-of-contested-vote |url-status=live }}</ref> Bola Tinubu's [[Inauguration of Bola Tinubu|inauguration]] was held on 29 May 2023.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bola Tinubu sworn in as Nigeria's president, succeeds Buhari |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/29/tinubu-sworn-in-as-nigerias-president-succeeds-buhari |work=www.aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=6 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906193842/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/29/tinubu-sworn-in-as-nigerias-president-succeeds-buhari |url-status=live }}</ref> Problems with widespread [[kidnapping in Nigeria]] continued.<ref>{{cite news |author=Emmanuel Akinwotu |date=16 January 2024 |title=A kidnapping of six sisters and a murder has gripped Nigeria |url=https://devone.com.ng/2024/01/shocking-kidnapping-and-murder-of-six-sisters-grips-nigeria.html |work=DevOne Africa |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=19 February 2024 |archive-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219180223/https://devone.com.ng/2024/01/shocking-kidnapping-and-murder-of-six-sisters-grips-nigeria.html |url-status=live <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">}}</ref> Tinubu signed into law an act on 29 May 2024 readopting ''[[Nigeria, We Hail Thee]]'', which was the country's [[national anthem]] from 1960 to 1978, as its national anthem, replacing ''[[Arise, O Compatriots]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 May 2024 |title=Outrage as Nigeria changes national anthem |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gg7z0n4jxo |access-date=29 May 2024 |work=BBC |language=en-UK</del>}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Four candidates vied for the presidency in the [[2023 Nigerian presidential election|2023 presidential election]]. For the first time since the return of democracy, no former military ruler ran for president, marking a strengthening of democracy and faith in the [[Constitution of Nigeria|multiparty constitution]]. The election also saw the rise of metonymic supporters of the new candidates, the [[Obidient Movement|Obidient movement]] of [[Peter Obi]], previously governor of Anambra State, widely appealed to young, urban voters and has his core base in the Southeast;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lasisi |first=Olukayode Joshua |date=29 September 2022 |title=Peter Obi leads in new poll, Google search interest |url=https://businessday.ng/politics/article/peter-obi-leads-in-new-poll-google-search-interest/ |access-date=5 October 2022 |website=Businessday NG |language=en-US |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202040603/https://businessday.ng/politics/article/peter-obi-leads-in-new-poll-google-search-interest/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the Kwankwassiya of [[Rabiu Kwankwaso]], former governor of [[Kano State]] in the Northwest.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Olurounbi |first1=Eromo Egbejule,Ruth |title=How Rabiu Kwankwaso became wildcard in Nigerian presidential race |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/1/kwankwaso-went-from-unpopular-governor-to-nigerian-presidential-wildcard |work=aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=24 August 2023 |archive-date=24 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924073749/https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2023/2/1/kwankwaso-went-from-unpopular-governor-to-nigerian-presidential-wildcard |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Bola Tinubu portrait.jpg|thumb|Chief [[Bola Tinubu]] is currently serving as President of Nigeria since 29 May 2023.|upright]] </ins>[[Bola Tinubu]], of the ruling party, won the disputed election with 36.61% of the vote,<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigeria presidential election results 2023 by the numbers |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28/nigeria-presidential-election-results-2023 |work=aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=9 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230809010308/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/2/28/nigeria-presidential-election-results-2023 |url-status=live }}</ref> but both runners-up claimed victory and litigation is ongoing in an election tribunal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Nigeria local elections open in shadow of contested national vote |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/18/nigeria-local-elections-open-in-shadow-of-contested-vote |work=www.aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=18 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230818143649/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/18/nigeria-local-elections-open-in-shadow-of-contested-vote |url-status=live }}</ref> Bola Tinubu's [[Inauguration of Bola Tinubu|inauguration]] was held on 29 May 2023.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bola Tinubu sworn in as Nigeria's president, succeeds Buhari |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/29/tinubu-sworn-in-as-nigerias-president-succeeds-buhari |work=www.aljazeera.com |language=en |access-date=18 August 2023 |archive-date=6 September 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230906193842/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/5/29/tinubu-sworn-in-as-nigerias-president-succeeds-buhari |url-status=live }}</ref> Problems with widespread [[kidnapping in Nigeria]] continued.<ref>{{cite news |author=Emmanuel Akinwotu |date=16 January 2024 |title=A kidnapping of six sisters and a murder has gripped Nigeria |url=https://devone.com.ng/2024/01/shocking-kidnapping-and-murder-of-six-sisters-grips-nigeria.html |work=DevOne Africa |publisher=[[NPR]] |access-date=19 February 2024 |archive-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219180223/https://devone.com.ng/2024/01/shocking-kidnapping-and-murder-of-six-sisters-grips-nigeria.html |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>== Geography ==</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>== Geography ==</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 400:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 395:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>{{Main|Tourism in Nigeria}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>{{Main|Tourism in Nigeria}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Òwú Waterfalls.jpg|thumb|[[Owu waterfalls]], visited by Nigerian [[Undergraduate education|undergraduates]]]]</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Òwú Waterfalls.jpg|thumb|[[Owu waterfalls]], visited by Nigerian [[Undergraduate education|undergraduates]]]]</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>Tourism in Nigeria centres largely on events, because of the country's ample <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">number</del> of ethnic groups, but also includes rain forests, savannahs, waterfalls, and other natural attractions.<ref name="suntra2">{{cite news|last=Archibong|first=Maurice|date=18 March 2004|title=Nigeria: Gold mine waiting to be tapped|work=The Sun Online|publisher=The Sun Publishing Ltd.|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2004/mar/18/travels-mar18-01.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=21 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426214225/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2004/mar/18/travels-mar18-01.htm|archive-date=26 April 2007}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>Tourism in Nigeria centres largely on events, because of the country's ample <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">amount</ins> of ethnic groups, but also includes rain forests, savannahs, waterfalls, and other natural attractions.<ref name="suntra2">{{cite news|last=Archibong|first=Maurice|date=18 March 2004|title=Nigeria: Gold mine waiting to be tapped|work=The Sun Online|publisher=The Sun Publishing Ltd.|url=http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2004/mar/18/travels-mar18-01.htm|url-status=dead|access-date=21 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070426214225/http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/travels/2004/mar/18/travels-mar18-01.htm|archive-date=26 April 2007}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Abuja is home to several parks and green areas. The largest, [[Millennium Park (Abuja)|Millennium Park]], was designed by architect [[Manfredi Nicoletti]] and officially opened in December 2003. After the re-modernization project achieved by the administration of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola, Lagos is gradually becoming a major tourist destination. Lagos is currently taking steps to become a [[global city]]. The 2009 Eyo carnival (a yearly festival originating from [[Iperu, Ogun|Iperu Remo]], Ogun State) was a step toward world city status. Currently, Lagos is primarily known as a business-oriented and fast-paced community.<ref name="METRO2">{{cite web|title=Managing Metropolitan Lagos|url=http://www.africaleadership.org/rc/Managing%20Metropolitan%20Lagos.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513124623/http://www.africaleadership.org/rc/Managing%20Metropolitan%20Lagos.pdf|archive-date=13 May 2012|access-date=4 April 2012|publisher=R.Rasaki}}</ref> Lagos has become an important location for African and black cultural identity.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Anthony|last1=Appiah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC&pg=PA53|title=Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 2|first2=Henry Louis|last2=Gates|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-19-533770-9|page=53|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-date=27 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627041215/https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Abuja is home to several parks and green areas. The largest, [[Millennium Park (Abuja)|Millennium Park]], was designed by architect [[Manfredi Nicoletti]] and officially opened in December 2003. After the re-modernization project achieved by the administration of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola, Lagos is gradually becoming a major tourist destination. Lagos is currently taking steps to become a [[global city]]. The 2009 Eyo carnival (a yearly festival originating from [[Iperu, Ogun|Iperu Remo]], Ogun State) was a step toward world city status. Currently, Lagos is primarily known as a business-oriented and fast-paced community.<ref name="METRO2">{{cite web|title=Managing Metropolitan Lagos|url=http://www.africaleadership.org/rc/Managing%20Metropolitan%20Lagos.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513124623/http://www.africaleadership.org/rc/Managing%20Metropolitan%20Lagos.pdf|archive-date=13 May 2012|access-date=4 April 2012|publisher=R.Rasaki}}</ref> Lagos has become an important location for African and black cultural identity.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Anthony|last1=Appiah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC&pg=PA53|title=Encyclopedia of Africa, Volume 2|first2=Henry Louis|last2=Gates|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0-19-533770-9|page=53|access-date=19 August 2019|archive-date=27 June 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627041215/https://books.google.com/books?id=A0XNvklcqbwC&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 456:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 451:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>{{main|Languages of Nigeria}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>{{main|Languages of Nigeria}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>{{More citations needed|section|date=July 2018}}</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>{{More citations needed|section|date=July 2018}}</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>[[File:Nigeria linguistical map 1979.svg|thumb|upright=1.45|right|Map of Nigeria's linguistic groups]]{{Pie chart|thumb=right|caption=Religion in Nigeria (2018 estimate in [[The World Factbook]] of [[CIA]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/#people-and-society/|title=The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|date=7 August 2024 }}</ref>|label1=[[Islam in Nigeria|Islam]]|value1=53.5|color1=Green|label2=[[Protestantism in Nigeria|Protestant]]|value2=35.3|color2=blue|label3=[[Catholic Church in Nigeria|Roman Catholic]]|value3=10.6|color3=grey|label4=Other|value4=0.6|color4=yellow}}<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> </del>Five hundred and twenty-five languages have been spoken in Nigeria; out of these 525 languages, eight are now extinct.<ref>{{cite web |year=2019 |title=Nigeria |url=http://www.ethnologue.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912022921/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG |archive-date=12 September 2019 |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |publisher=SIL International Publications |location=Dallas, TX |edition=22th |editor-first1=David M. |editor-last1=Ebihard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig}}</ref> In some areas of Nigeria, ethnic groups speak more than one language.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>[[File:Nigeria linguistical map 1979.svg|thumb|upright=1.45|right|Map of Nigeria's linguistic groups]]{{Pie chart|thumb=right|caption=Religion in Nigeria (2018 estimate in [[The World Factbook]] of [[CIA]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/nigeria/#people-and-society/|title=The World Factbook – Central Intelligence Agency|website=www.cia.gov|date=7 August 2024 }}</ref>|label1=[[Islam in Nigeria|Islam]]|value1=53.5|color1=Green|label2=[[Protestantism in Nigeria|Protestant]]|value2=35.3|color2=blue|label3=[[Catholic Church in Nigeria|Roman Catholic]]|value3=10.6|color3=grey|label4=Other|value4=0.6|color4=yellow}}Five hundred and twenty-five languages have been spoken in Nigeria; out of these 525 languages, eight are now extinct.<ref>{{cite web |year=2019 |title=Nigeria |url=http://www.ethnologue.com |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190912022921/https://www.ethnologue.com/country/NG |archive-date=12 September 2019 |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |publisher=SIL International Publications |location=Dallas, TX |edition=22th |editor-first1=David M. |editor-last1=Ebihard |editor-first2=Gary F. |editor-last2=Simons |editor-first3=Charles D. |editor-last3=Fennig}}</ref> In some areas of Nigeria, ethnic groups speak more than one language.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> The official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country, owing to the influence of British colonisation which ended in 1960. Many French speakers from surrounding countries have influenced the English spoken in the border regions of Nigeria and some Nigerian citizens have become fluent enough in French to work in the surrounding countries. The French spoken in Nigeria may be mixed with some native languages and English.{{fact|date=September 2024}}</ins></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>The official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country, owing to the influence of British colonisation which ended in 1960. [[Nigerian Pidgin|Nigerian Pidgin English]], first used by British and [[Slavery in Africa|African slavers]] to facilitate the [[Atlantic slave trade]] in the late 17th century,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-40975399|title=BBC starts Pidgin digital service for West Africa audiences|date=21 August 2017|work=[[BBC News]]|access-date=16 February 2018}}</ref> has replaced the native language for many Nigerians. Many French speakers from surrounding countries have influenced the English spoken in the border regions of Nigeria and some Nigerian citizens have become fluent enough in French to work in the surrounding countries. The French spoken in Nigeria may be mixed with some native languages and English.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}</div></td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-empty diff-side-added"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>The major languages spoken in Nigeria represent three major families of [[languages of Africa]]: the majority are [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger-Congo]] languages, such as [[Igbo language|Igbo]], [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]], [[Ijaw languages|Ijaw]], [[Fula language|Fulfulde]], [[Ogoni languages|Ogoni]], and [[Edo language|Edo]]. [[Kanuri language|Kanuri]], spoken in the northeast, primarily in [[Borno State|Borno]] and [[Yobe State]], is part of the [[Nilo-Saharan languages|Nilo-Saharan]] family, and [[Hausa language|Hausa]] is an [[Afroasiatic languages|Afroasiatic]] language. Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their languages, English as the official language is widely used for education, business transactions and official purposes. English as a first language is used by only a small minority of the country's urban elite, and it is not spoken at all in some rural areas. Hausa is the most widely spoken of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>The major languages spoken in Nigeria represent three major families of [[languages of Africa]]: the majority are [[Niger–Congo languages|Niger-Congo]] languages, such as [[Igbo language|Igbo]], [[Yoruba language|Yoruba]], [[Ibibio language|Ibibio]], [[Ijaw languages|Ijaw]], [[Fula language|Fulfulde]], [[Ogoni languages|Ogoni]], and [[Edo language|Edo]]. [[Kanuri language|Kanuri]], spoken in the northeast, primarily in [[Borno State|Borno]] and [[Yobe State]], is part of the [[Nilo-Saharan languages|Nilo-Saharan]] family, and [[Hausa language|Hausa]] is an [[Afroasiatic languages|Afroasiatic]] language. Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their languages, English as the official language is widely used for education, business transactions and official purposes. English as a first language is used by only a small minority of the country's urban elite, and it is not spoken at all in some rural areas. Hausa is the most widely spoken of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>With the majority of Nigeria's populace in rural areas, the major languages of communication in the country remain indigenous languages. Some of the largest of these, notably Yoruba and Igbo, have derived standardised languages from several different dialects and are widely spoken by those ethnic groups. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pidgin English or</del> Nigerian English, often known simply as "[[Pidgin]]" or "Broken" (Broken English), is also a popular [[lingua franca]], though with varying regional influences on dialect and slang. Nigerian <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pidgin</del> is widely spoken within the Niger Delta Region.<ref>{{cite book |last=Adegbija |first=Efurosibina E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auI_WuBrWncC&pg=PA55 |title=Multilingualism: A Nigerian Case Study |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-59221-173-9 |location=Last paragraph |page=55 |access-date=26 December 2008 |archive-date=27 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627041223/https://books.google.com/books?id=auI_WuBrWncC&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>With the majority of Nigeria's populace in rural areas, the major languages of communication in the country remain indigenous languages. Some of the largest of these, notably Yoruba and Igbo, have derived standardised languages from several different dialects and are widely spoken by those ethnic groups. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[Nigerian</ins> <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Pidgin|</ins>Nigerian<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> Pidgin</ins> English<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">]]</ins>, often known simply as "[[Pidgin]]" or "Broken" (Broken English), is also a popular [[lingua franca]], though with varying regional influences on dialect and slang.<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline"> The pidgin English or</ins> Nigerian <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">English</ins> is widely spoken within the Niger Delta Region.<ref>{{cite book |last=Adegbija |first=Efurosibina E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=auI_WuBrWncC&pg=PA55 |title=Multilingualism: A Nigerian Case Study |publisher=Africa World Press |year=2003 |isbn=978-1-59221-173-9 |location=Last paragraph |page=55 |access-date=26 December 2008 |archive-date=27 June 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240627041223/https://books.google.com/books?id=auI_WuBrWncC&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>=== Religion ===</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>=== Religion ===</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 591:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 584:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* ''[[Omo Ghetto: The Saga]]'' (₦636 million)<ref name="Top 20 films 9th 15th April 2021 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria">{{cite web |url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/206-top-20-films-report-9th-15th-april-2021 |title=Top 20 Films Report 9th-15th April 2021 |publisher=CEAN |location=Nigeria |access-date=10 August 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420090341/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/206-top-20-films-report-9th-15th-april-2021 |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* ''[[Omo Ghetto: The Saga]]'' (₦636 million)<ref name="Top 20 films 9th 15th April 2021 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria">{{cite web |url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/206-top-20-films-report-9th-15th-april-2021 |title=Top 20 Films Report 9th-15th April 2021 |publisher=CEAN |location=Nigeria |access-date=10 August 2021 |archive-date=20 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210420090341/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/206-top-20-films-report-9th-15th-april-2021 |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* ''[[The Wedding Party (2016 film)|The Wedding Party]]'' (₦452 million)<ref name="premiumtimesng.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/371619-wedding-party-1-named-highest-grossing-nollywood-movie-of-the-decade.html |title='Wedding Party 1' named highest-grossing Nollywood movie of the decade |newspaper=Premium Times |date=7 January 2020 |first=Jayne |last=Augoye |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805142103/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/371619-wedding-party-1-named-highest-grossing-nollywood-movie-of-the-decade.html |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* ''[[The Wedding Party (2016 film)|The Wedding Party]]'' (₦452 million)<ref name="premiumtimesng.com">{{cite web |url=https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/371619-wedding-party-1-named-highest-grossing-nollywood-movie-of-the-decade.html |title='Wedding Party 1' named highest-grossing Nollywood movie of the decade |newspaper=Premium Times |date=7 January 2020 |first=Jayne |last=Augoye |access-date=6 September 2020 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805142103/https://www.premiumtimesng.com/entertainment/nollywood/371619-wedding-party-1-named-highest-grossing-nollywood-movie-of-the-decade.html |url-status=live }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>* ''[[The Wedding Party 2]]'' (₦433 million)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wedding-party-2-destination-dubai-costs-n300m-producer/|title='The Wedding Party 2 -Destination Dubai" costs N300m–Producer|date=31 January 2018|<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">access-date</del>=3 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184205/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wedding-party-2-destination-dubai-costs-n300m-producer/|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>* ''[[The Wedding Party 2]]'' (₦433 million)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wedding-party-2-destination-dubai-costs-n300m-producer/|title='The Wedding Party 2 -Destination Dubai" costs N300m–Producer|date=31 January 2018|<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">accessdate</ins>=3 July 2021|archive-date=9 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709184205/https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/wedding-party-2-destination-dubai-costs-n300m-producer/|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* ''[[Chief Daddy]]'' (₦387 million)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/120-top-20-films-27th-december-2019-2nd-january-2020|title=Top 20 films 27th December 2019 2nd January 2020 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria|website=ceanigeria.com|access-date=12 November 2022|archive-date=3 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203124604/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/120-top-20-films-27th-december-2019-2nd-january-2020|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* ''[[Chief Daddy]]'' (₦387 million)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/120-top-20-films-27th-december-2019-2nd-january-2020|title=Top 20 films 27th December 2019 2nd January 2020 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria|website=ceanigeria.com|access-date=12 November 2022|archive-date=3 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221203124604/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/120-top-20-films-27th-december-2019-2nd-january-2020|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>* ''[[King of Thieves (2022 film)|King of Thieves]]'' (2022, ₦321 million)<ref name="Top 20 films 24th 26th June 2022 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria">{{cite web|url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/324-top-20-films-weekend-24th-26th-june|title=Top 20 films 24th - 26th June 2022 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria|website=ceanigeria.com|access-date=12 November 2022|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112052704/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/324-top-20-films-weekend-24th-26th-june|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>* ''[[King of Thieves (2022 film)|King of Thieves]]'' (2022, ₦321 million)<ref name="Top 20 films 24th 26th June 2022 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria">{{cite web|url=https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/324-top-20-films-weekend-24th-26th-june|title=Top 20 films 24th - 26th June 2022 - Cinema Exhibitors Association of Nigeria|website=ceanigeria.com|access-date=12 November 2022|archive-date=12 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221112052704/https://www.ceanigeria.com/box-office/324-top-20-films-weekend-24th-26th-june|url-status=live}}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 626:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 619:</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>[[Association football|Football]] is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own [[Nigeria Professional Football League|Premier League]] of football. [[Nigeria national football team|Nigeria's national football team]], known as the "Super Eagles", has played in the [[FIFA World Cup]] on six occasions ([[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994]], [[1998 FIFA World Cup|1998]], [[2002 FIFA World Cup|2002]], [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010]], [[2014 FIFA World Cup|2014]], and [[2018 FIFA World Cup|2018]]). In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked fifth in the [[FIFA World Rankings]], the highest ranking achieved by an African team. They won the [[Africa Cup of Nations]] in [[1980 African Cup of Nations|1980]], [[1994 African Cup of Nations|1994]], and [[2013 Africa Cup of Nations|2013]], and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup. They won the gold medal for football in the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] (in which they beat Argentina) becoming the first African football team to win gold in Olympic football.</div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>[[Association football|Football]] is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own [[Nigeria Professional Football League|Premier League]] of football. [[Nigeria national football team|Nigeria's national football team]], known as the "Super Eagles", has played in the [[FIFA World Cup]] on six occasions ([[1994 FIFA World Cup|1994]], [[1998 FIFA World Cup|1998]], [[2002 FIFA World Cup|2002]], [[2010 FIFA World Cup|2010]], [[2014 FIFA World Cup|2014]], and [[2018 FIFA World Cup|2018]]). In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked fifth in the [[FIFA World Rankings]], the highest ranking achieved by an African team. They won the [[Africa Cup of Nations]] in [[1980 African Cup of Nations|1980]], [[1994 African Cup of Nations|1994]], and [[2013 Africa Cup of Nations|2013]], and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup. They won the gold medal for football in the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] (in which they beat Argentina) becoming the first African football team to win gold in Olympic football.</div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td> <td class="diff-deletedline diff-side-deleted"><div>Nigeria is also involved in other sports such as basketball, cricket and track and field.<ref>{{cite web|year=2011|title=Nigerian Basketball|url=http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp|access-date=7 June 2011|publisher=Africabasket.com|archive-date=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826193254/http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Nigeria men's national basketball team|Nigeria's national basketball team]] made the headlines internationally when it became the first African team to beat the [[United States men's national basketball team|United States men's national team]].<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Nick |last1=Selbe |title=Nigeria Upsets Team USA in Pre-Olympics Exhibition |url=https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/11/team-usa-upset-nigeria-tokyo-games-mens-basketball-exhibition-olympics |<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">access-date</del>=28 August 2021 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=10 July 2021 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406070355/https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/11/team-usa-upset-nigeria-tokyo-games-mens-basketball-exhibition-olympics |url-status=live }}</ref> In earlier years, Nigeria qualified for the [[Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Summer Olympics]] as it beat heavily favoured world elite teams such as [[Greece men's national basketball team|Greece]] and [[Lithuania men's national basketball team|Lithuania]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120710072346/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/newsid/52642/arti.html OQTM – Nigeria celebrates 'greatest' victory], fiba.com, accessed 16 December 2012.</ref> Nigeria has been home to numerous internationally recognised basketball players in the world's top leagues in America, Europe and Asia. These players include [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame|Basketball Hall of Famer]] [[Hakeem Olajuwon]], and later players in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]. The [[Nigerian Premier League (basketball)|Nigerian Premier League]] has become one of the biggest and most-watched basketball competitions in Africa. The games have aired on ''Kwese TV'' and have averaged a viewership of over a million people.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lee |last=Nxumalo |title=Basketball's next frontier is Africa |url=https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |work=New Frame |date=20 December 2020 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116062357/https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |url-status=dead }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td> <td class="diff-addedline diff-side-added"><div>Nigeria is also involved in other sports such as basketball, cricket and track and field.<ref>{{cite web|year=2011|title=Nigerian Basketball|url=http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp|access-date=7 June 2011|publisher=Africabasket.com|archive-date=26 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120826193254/http://www.africabasket.com/Nigeria/basketball.asp|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Nigeria men's national basketball team|Nigeria's national basketball team]] made the headlines internationally when it became the first African team to beat the [[United States men's national basketball team|United States men's national team]].<ref>{{cite magazine |first1=Nick |last1=Selbe |title=Nigeria Upsets Team USA in Pre-Olympics Exhibition |url=https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/11/team-usa-upset-nigeria-tokyo-games-mens-basketball-exhibition-olympics |<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">accessdate</ins>=28 August 2021 |magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]] |date=10 July 2021 |archive-date=6 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406070355/https://www.si.com/olympics/2021/07/11/team-usa-upset-nigeria-tokyo-games-mens-basketball-exhibition-olympics |url-status=live }}</ref> In earlier years, Nigeria qualified for the [[Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Summer Olympics]] as it beat heavily favoured world elite teams such as [[Greece men's national basketball team|Greece]] and [[Lithuania men's national basketball team|Lithuania]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20120710072346/http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/news/lateNews/p/newsid/52642/arti.html OQTM – Nigeria celebrates 'greatest' victory], fiba.com, accessed 16 December 2012.</ref> Nigeria has been home to numerous internationally recognised basketball players in the world's top leagues in America, Europe and Asia. These players include [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame|Basketball Hall of Famer]] [[Hakeem Olajuwon]], and later players in the [[National Basketball Association|NBA]]. The [[Nigerian Premier League (basketball)|Nigerian Premier League]] has become one of the biggest and most-watched basketball competitions in Africa. The games have aired on ''Kwese TV'' and have averaged a viewership of over a million people.<ref>{{cite news |first=Lee |last=Nxumalo |title=Basketball's next frontier is Africa |url=https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |work=New Frame |date=20 December 2020 |access-date=11 January 2021 |archive-date=16 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116062357/https://www.newframe.com/basketballs-next-frontier-is-africa/ |url-status=dead }}</ref></div></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"> </td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-deleted"><div>Nigeria made history by qualifying the first [[bobsled]] team for the [[Winter Olympics]] from Africa when their women's two-person team qualified for [[Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics|the bobsled competition at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Udoh |first=Colin |title=Nigeria bobsled women qualify for Winter Olympics |url=http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/21430137/nigeria-bobsled-women-qualify-winter-olympics |publisher=ESPN |date=17 November 2017 |access-date=29 January 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125155358/https://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/21430137/nigeria-bobsled-women-qualify-winter-olympics |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 1990s, [[Scrabble]] was made an official sport in Nigeria; by the end of 2017, there were around 4,000 players in more than 100 clubs in the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Nigeria produces Scrabble champions |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2017/11/30/why-nigeria-produces-scrabble-champions?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1 |newspaper=The Economist |date=30 November 2017 |access-date=30 November 2017 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203174451/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2017/11/30/why-nigeria-produces-scrabble-champions?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, the Nigerian Curling Federation was established to introduce a new sport to the country with the hope of getting the game to be a part of the curriculum at the elementary, high school, and university levels respectively. At the [[2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship]] in Norway, Nigeria won their first international match beating France 8–5.<ref>{{cite web |title=First African curling facility begins development in Nigeria |url=https://worldcurling.org/2020/06/nigeria-rink/ |publisher=[[World Curling Federation]] |date=18 June 2020 |access-date=1 May 2021 |archive-date=7 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607182418/https://worldcurling.org/2020/06/nigeria-rink/ |url-status=dead }}</ref></div></td> <td class="diff-marker"></td> <td class="diff-context diff-side-added"><div>Nigeria made history by qualifying the first [[bobsled]] team for the [[Winter Olympics]] from Africa when their women's two-person team qualified for [[Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics|the bobsled competition at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Udoh |first=Colin |title=Nigeria bobsled women qualify for Winter Olympics |url=http://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/21430137/nigeria-bobsled-women-qualify-winter-olympics |publisher=ESPN |date=17 November 2017 |access-date=29 January 2018 |archive-date=25 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125155358/https://www.espn.co.uk/espn/story/_/id/21430137/nigeria-bobsled-women-qualify-winter-olympics |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early 1990s, [[Scrabble]] was made an official sport in Nigeria; by the end of 2017, there were around 4,000 players in more than 100 clubs in the country.<ref>{{cite news |title=Why Nigeria produces Scrabble champions |url=https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2017/11/30/why-nigeria-produces-scrabble-champions?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1 |newspaper=The Economist |date=30 November 2017 |access-date=30 November 2017 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203174451/https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2017/11/30/why-nigeria-produces-scrabble-champions?zid=319&ah=17af09b0281b01505c226b1e574f5cc1 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2018, the Nigerian Curling Federation was established to introduce a new sport to the country with the hope of getting the game to be a part of the curriculum at the elementary, high school, and university levels respectively. At the [[2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship]] in Norway, Nigeria won their first international match beating France 8–5.<ref>{{cite web |title=First African curling facility begins development in Nigeria |url=https://worldcurling.org/2020/06/nigeria-rink/ |publisher=[[World Curling Federation]] |date=18 June 2020 |access-date=1 May 2021 |archive-date=7 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230607182418/https://worldcurling.org/2020/06/nigeria-rink/ |url-status=dead }}</ref></div></td> </tr>  </table><hr class='diff-hr' id='mw-oldid' /> <h2 class='diff-currentversion-title'>Latest revision as of 07:58, 24 November 2024</h2> <div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Country in West Africa</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the country. 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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/130px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/195px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Flag_of_Nigeria.svg/260px-Flag_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a></div> <div><a href="/wiki/Flag_of_Nigeria" title="Flag of Nigeria">Flag</a></div> </div> <div style="display:table-cell; vertical-align:middle; padding: 0px 5px;"> <div style="padding-bottom:3px;"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Coat of arms of Nigeria"><img alt="Coat of arms of Nigeria" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg/90px-Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="90" height="76" class="mw-file-element" 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9.067; 7.483</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Official languages</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/National_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="National languages">National languages</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl 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li dt:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:first-child::before{content:" (";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hausa_language" title="Hausa language">Hausa</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Igbo_language" title="Igbo language">Igbo</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regional_languages" class="mw-redirect" title="Regional languages">Regional languages</a><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Over <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria" title="Languages of Nigeria">525 languages</a><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ethnic_group" class="mw-redirect" title="Ethnic group">Ethnic groups</a> <div class="ib-country-ethnic"> (2018)<a href="#cite_note-Africa:_Nigeria-3">[3]</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li>25% <a href="/wiki/Hausa_people" title="Hausa people">Hausa</a></li> <li>21% <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a></li> <li>18% <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbo</a></li> <li>6% <a href="/wiki/Fula_people" title="Fula people">Fulani</a></li> <li>3.5% <a href="/wiki/Ibibio_people" title="Ibibio people">Ibibio</a></li> <li>2.4% <a href="/wiki/Tiv_people" title="Tiv people">Tiv</a></li> <li>2.4% <a href="/wiki/Kanuri_people" title="Kanuri people">Kanuri</a></li> <li>1.8% <a href="/wiki/Ijaw_people" title="Ijaw people">Ijaw</a></li> <li>19.9% <a href="/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_Nigeria" title="List of ethnic groups in Nigeria">other</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Demonym" title="Demonym">Demonym(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nigerians" title="Nigerians">Nigerian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Nigeria" title="Politics of Nigeria">Government</a></th><td class="infobox-data">Federal <a href="/wiki/Presidential_republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Presidential republic">presidential republic</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bola_Tinubu" title="Bola Tinubu">Bola Tinubu</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_Nigeria" title="Vice President of Nigeria">Vice President</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kashim_Shettima" title="Kashim Shettima">Kashim Shettima</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_Senate_of_Nigeria" title="President of the Senate of Nigeria">Senate President</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Godswill_Akpabio" title="Godswill Akpabio">Godswill Akpabio</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_House_of_Representatives_of_Nigeria" title="Speaker of the House of Representatives of Nigeria">House Speaker</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tajudeen_Abbas" title="Tajudeen Abbas">Tajudeen Abbas</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Chief_Justice_of_Nigeria" title="Chief Justice of Nigeria">Chief Justice</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kudirat_Kekere-Ekun" title="Kudirat Kekere-Ekun">Kudirat Kekere-Ekun</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Legislature</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Nigeria)" title="National Assembly (Nigeria)">National Assembly</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Upper_house" title="Upper house">Upper house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Nigeria" title="Senate of Nigeria">Senate</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• <a href="/wiki/Lower_house" title="Lower house">Lower house</a></div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Nigeria)" title="House of Representatives (Nigeria)">House of Representatives</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/History_of_Nigeria" title="History of Nigeria">Independence</a> <div class="ib-country-sovereignty">from the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">United Kingdom</a></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Northern Nigeria Protectorate">Northern Nigeria Protectorate</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 January 1900</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Southern Nigeria Protectorate">Southern Nigeria Protectorate</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 January 1900</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria" title="Colonial Nigeria">Unification of Nigeria</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 January 1914</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Nigeria" title="Federation of Nigeria">Declared independent as a sovereign state</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 October 1960</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_First_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian First Republic">Became a republic</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">1 October 1963</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="text-indent:-0.9em;margin-left:1.2em;font-weight:normal;">• <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria" title="Constitution of Nigeria">Current constitution</a> </div></th><td class="infobox-data">29 May 1999</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Nigeria" title="Geography of Nigeria">Area </a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">923,769 km2 (356,669 sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">31st</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Water (%)</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1.4</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header"><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria" title="Demographics of Nigeria">Population</a></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• 2023 estimate</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Neutral increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/11px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/17px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Increase_Neutral.svg/22px-Increase_Neutral.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="347" data-file-height="346" /> 230,842,743<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">6th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Density</div></th><td class="infobox-data">249.8/km2 (647.0/sq mi) (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population_density" title="List of countries and dependencies by population density">42nd</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style>(<a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>)</th><td class="infobox-data">2024 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $1.443 trillion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.NG-5">[5]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">27th</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $6,340<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.NG-5">[5]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita">142nd</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(nominal)</th><td class="infobox-data">2024 estimate</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $252.738 billion<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.NG-5">[5]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">53rd</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div class="ib-country-fake-li">• Per capita</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/11px-Decrease2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/17px-Decrease2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Decrease2.svg/22px-Decrease2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> $1,110<a href="#cite_note-IMFWEO.NG-5">[5]</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)_per_capita" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal) per capita">167th</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Gini_coefficient" title="Gini coefficient">Gini</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(2020)</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Positive decrease" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Decrease_Positive.svg/11px-Decrease_Positive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Decrease_Positive.svg/17px-Decrease_Positive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Decrease_Positive.svg/22px-Decrease_Positive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 35.1<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239334494">@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output div:not(.notheme)>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output p>.tmp-color,html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output table:not(.notheme) .tmp-color{color:inherit!important}}</style>medium inequality</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Human_Development_Index" title="Human Development Index">HDI</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r886047488">(2022)</th><td class="infobox-data"><img alt="Increase" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/11px-Increase2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="11" height="11" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/17px-Increase2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Increase2.svg/22px-Increase2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="300" /> 0.548<a href="#cite_note-HDI-7">[7]</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494">low (<a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index" title="List of countries by Human Development Index">161st</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Currency</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_naira" title="Nigerian naira">Naira</a> (₦) (<a href="/wiki/ISO_4217" title="ISO 4217">NGN</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Time zone</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time" title="Coordinated Universal Time">UTC</a>+01:00 (<a href="/wiki/West_Africa_Time" title="West Africa Time">WAT</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Date format</th><td class="infobox-data">dd/mm/yyyy</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic" title="Left- and right-hand traffic">Drives on</a></th><td class="infobox-data">right<a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Nigeria" title="Telephone numbers in Nigeria">Calling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Nigeria" title="Telephone numbers in Nigeria">+234</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166" title="ISO 3166">ISO 3166 code</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/ISO_3166-2:NG" title="ISO 3166-2:NG">NG</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain" title="Country code top-level domain">Internet TLD</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/.ng" title=".ng">.ng</a></td></tr></tbody></table> Nigeria,<a href="#cite_note-9">[a]</a> officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-10">[9]</a> It is situated between the <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahel</a> to the north and the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Guinea" title="Gulf of Guinea">Gulf of Guinea</a> to the south in the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean" title="Atlantic Ocean">Atlantic Ocean</a>. It covers an area of 923,769 square kilometres (356,669 sq mi). With <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria" title="Demographics of Nigeria">a population</a> of more than 230 million, it is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_population" title="List of African countries by population">most populous country</a> in <a href="/wiki/Africa" title="Africa">Africa</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">world's sixth-most populous country</a>. Nigeria borders <a href="/wiki/Niger" title="Niger">Niger</a> in <a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Nigeria_border" title="Niger–Nigeria border">the north</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chad" title="Chad">Chad</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chad%E2%80%93Nigeria_border" title="Chad–Nigeria border">the northeast</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cameroon%E2%80%93Nigeria_border" title="Cameroon–Nigeria border">the east</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Benin" title="Benin">Benin</a> in <a href="/wiki/Benin%E2%80%93Nigeria_border" title="Benin–Nigeria border">the west</a>. Nigeria is a <a href="/wiki/Federation" title="Federation">federal republic</a> comprising 36 <a href="/wiki/States_of_Nigeria" title="States of Nigeria">states</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Capital_Territory,_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria">Federal Capital Territory</a>, where its capital, <a href="/wiki/Abuja" title="Abuja">Abuja</a>, is located. The <a href="/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_cities_by_population" title="List of Nigerian cities by population">largest city in Nigeria</a> is <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>, one of the largest <a href="/wiki/List_of_largest_cities" title="List of largest cities">metropolitan areas</a> in the world and the <a href="/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Africa_by_population" title="List of cities in Africa by population">largest in Africa</a>. Nigeria has been home to several <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_traditional_rulers" title="Nigerian traditional rulers">indigenous pre-colonial states</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sahelian_kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahelian kingdoms">kingdoms</a> since the second <a href="/wiki/Millennium" title="Millennium">millennium</a> BC, with the <a href="/wiki/Nok_culture" title="Nok culture">Nok civilization</a> in the 15th century BC marking the first internal unification.<a href="#cite_note-11">[10]</a> The modern state originated with <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria" title="Colonial Nigeria">British colonialization</a> in the 19th century, taking its present territorial shape with the merging of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Southern Nigeria Protectorate">Southern Nigeria Protectorate</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Northern Nigeria Protectorate">Northern Nigeria Protectorate</a> in 1914. The <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British</a> set up administrative and legal structures while practicing <a href="/wiki/Indirect_rule" title="Indirect rule">indirect rule</a> through <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Chieftaincy" title="Nigerian Chieftaincy">traditional chiefdoms</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[11]</a> Nigeria became a formally <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Nigeria" title="Federation of Nigeria">independent federation</a> on 1 October 1960. It experienced a <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">civil war</a> from 1967 to 1970, followed by a succession of <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_military_juntas_of_1966%E2%80%9379_and_1983%E2%80%9399" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian military juntas of 1966–79 and 1983–99">military dictatorships</a> and democratically elected civilian governments until achieving a stable government in the <a href="/wiki/1999_Nigerian_presidential_election" title="1999 Nigerian presidential election">1999 Nigerian presidential election</a>, with the election of <a href="/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo" title="Olusegun Obasanjo">Olusegun Obasanjo</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Peoples_Democratic_Party_(Nigeria)" title="Peoples Democratic Party (Nigeria)">Peoples Democratic Party</a>. However, the country frequently experiences <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">electoral fraud</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Corruption" title="Corruption">corruption</a> is rampant in various levels of Nigerian politics. Nigeria is a <a href="/wiki/Multinational_state" title="Multinational state">multinational state</a> inhabited by more than <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria" title="Demographics of Nigeria">250 ethnic groups</a> speaking <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria" title="Languages of Nigeria">500 distinct languages</a>, all identifying with a wide variety of cultures.<a href="#cite_note-13">[12]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[13]</a><a href="#cite_note-15">[14]</a> The three largest ethnic groups are the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_people" title="Hausa people">Hausa</a> in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Northern Region, Nigeria">the north</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> in <a href="/wiki/Yorubaland" title="Yorubaland">the west</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbo</a> in <a href="/wiki/Igboland" title="Igboland">the east</a>, together constituting over 60% of the total population.<a href="#cite_note-16">[15]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Official_language" title="Official language">official language</a> is <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_English" title="Nigerian English">English</a>, chosen to facilitate linguistic unity at the national level.<a href="#cite_note-17">[16]</a> <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria" title="Constitution of Nigeria">Nigeria's constitution</a> ensures <a href="/wiki/De_jure" title="De jure">de jure</a> <a href="/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religion</a>,<a href="#cite_note-18">[17]</a> and it is home to some of the world's largest <a href="/wiki/Islam_by_country" title="Islam by country">Muslim</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christianity_by_country" title="Christianity by country">Christian</a> populations.<a href="#cite_note-19">[18]</a> Nigeria is divided roughly in half between <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a>, who live mostly in the north part of the country, and <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, who live mostly in the south; <a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">indigenous religions</a>, such as those native to the <a href="/wiki/Odinani" class="mw-redirect" title="Odinani">Igbo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_religion" title="Yoruba religion">Yoruba</a> ethnicities, are in the minority.<a href="#cite_note-USEN-20">[19]</a> Nigeria is a <a href="/wiki/Regional_power" title="Regional power">regional power</a> in Africa and a <a href="/wiki/Middle_power" title="Middle power">middle power</a> in international affairs. <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria" title="Economy of Nigeria">Nigeria's economy</a> is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of African countries by GDP (nominal)">fourth-largest in Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">53rd-largest in the world</a> by nominal <a href="/wiki/Gross_domestic_product" title="Gross domestic product">GDP</a>, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">27th-largest</a> by <a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>. Nigeria is often referred to as the Giant of Africa owing to its large population and <a href="/wiki/Economy" title="Economy">economy</a>,<a href="#cite_note-21">[20]</a> and is considered to be an <a href="/wiki/Emerging_market" title="Emerging market">emerging market</a> by the <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a>. Nigeria is a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> and a member of many international organizations, including the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>, <a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">NAM</a>,<a href="#cite_note-22">[21]</a> the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Community of West African States">Economic Community of West African States</a>, <a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Organisation of Islamic Cooperation</a> and <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>. It is also a member of the informal <a href="/wiki/Jim_O%27Neill,_Baron_O%27Neill_of_Gatley#Goldman_Sachs" title="Jim O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of Gatley">MINT</a> group of countries and is one of the <a href="/wiki/Next_Eleven" class="mw-redirect" title="Next Eleven">Next Eleven</a> economies. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2></div> The name <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nigeria" class="extiw" title="wikt:Nigeria">Nigeria</a> derives from the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger River</a> running through the country. This name was coined on 8 January 1897, by the British journalist <a href="/wiki/Flora_Shaw,_Lady_Lugard" title="Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard">Flora Shaw</a>. The neighboring <a href="/wiki/Republic_of_Niger" class="mw-redirect" title="Republic of Niger">Republic of Niger</a> takes its name from the same river. The origin of the name Niger, which originally applied to only the middle reaches of the Niger River, is uncertain. The word is likely an alteration of the <a href="/wiki/Tuareg_people" title="Tuareg people">Tuareg</a> name egerew n-igerewen used by inhabitants along the middle reaches of the river around <a href="/wiki/Timbuktu" title="Timbuktu">Timbuktu</a> before 19th-century <a href="/wiki/Scramble_for_Africa" title="Scramble for Africa">European colonialism</a>.<a href="#cite_note-23">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-24">[23]</a> Before Flora Shaw suggested the name Nigeria, other proposed names included Royal Niger Company Territories, Central Sudan, Niger Empire, Niger Sudan, and Hausa Territories.<a href="#cite_note-25">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Nigeria" title="History of Nigeria">History of Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Nigerian_history" title="Timeline of Nigerian history">Timeline of Nigerian history</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Prehistory">Prehistory</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Prehistory_of_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Prehistory of Nigeria">Prehistory of Nigeria</a></div> <a href="/wiki/Kainji_Dam" title="Kainji Dam">Kainji Dam</a> excavations showed ironworking by the 2nd century BC. The transition from <a href="/wiki/Neolithic" title="Neolithic">Neolithic</a> times to the <a href="/wiki/Iron_Age" title="Iron Age">Iron Age</a> was accomplished without intermediate <a href="/wiki/Bronze_Age" title="Bronze Age">bronze</a> production. Some have suggested the technology moved west from the <a href="/wiki/Nile_Valley" class="mw-redirect" title="Nile Valley">Nile Valley</a>. But the <a href="/wiki/Iron_metallurgy_in_Africa" title="Iron metallurgy in Africa">Iron Age</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger River</a> valley and the forest region appears to predate the introduction of metallurgy in the upper savanna by more than 800 years, as well as predating it in the Nile Valley. More recent research suggests that iron metallurgy was developed independently in <a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">sub-Saharan Africa</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Tylecote_1975_see_below-26">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eggert_2014_51–59-27">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eggert_2014_53–54-28">[27]</a><a href="#cite_note-Holl-2020#2-29">[28]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg/220px-Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="331" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg/330px-Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg/440px-Nok_sculpture_Louvre_70-1998-11-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1660" data-file-height="2500" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nok" title="Nok">Nok</a> sculpture, <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a></figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Nok_culture" title="Nok culture">Nok civilization</a> thrived between 1,500 BC and AD 200. It produced life-sized <a href="/wiki/Terracotta" title="Terracotta">terracotta</a> figures that are some of the earliest known sculptures in sub-Saharan Africa<a href="#cite_note-PB_2014-30">[29]</a><a href="#cite_note-31">[30]</a><a href="#cite_note-32">[31]</a><a href="#cite_note-archaeology-33">[32]</a><a href="#cite_note-34">[33]</a> and smelted iron by about 550 BC and possibly a few centuries earlier.<a href="#cite_note-Tylecote_1975_see_below-26">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eggert_2014_51–59-27">[26]</a><a href="#cite_note-Eggert_2014_53–54-28">[27]</a> Evidence of iron smelting has also been excavated at sites in the <a href="/wiki/Nsukka" title="Nsukka">Nsukka</a> region of southeast Nigeria: dating to 2000 BC at the site of Lejja<a href="#cite_note-Eze-Uzomaka-35">[34]</a> and to 750 BC and at the site of <a href="/wiki/Opi_(archaeological_site)" title="Opi (archaeological site)">Opi</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_history">Early history</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Nigeria_before_1500" title="History of Nigeria before 1500">History of Nigeria before 1500</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg/220px-Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="297" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg/330px-Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg/440px-Queen_Mother_Pendant_Mask-_Iyoba_MET_DP231460.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1483" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Royal <a href="/wiki/Benin_ivory_mask" title="Benin ivory mask">Benin ivory mask</a>, one of Nigeria's most recognized artifacts. <a href="/wiki/Benin_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Benin Empire">Benin Empire</a>, 16th century.</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Kano_Chronicle" title="Kano Chronicle">Kano Chronicle</a> highlights an ancient history dating to around 999 AD of the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_Kingdoms" title="Hausa Kingdoms">Hausa</a> <a href="/wiki/Sahelian_kingdoms" class="mw-redirect" title="Sahelian kingdoms">Sahelian city-state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a>, with other major Hausa cities (or <a href="/wiki/Hausa_Bakwai" class="mw-redirect" title="Hausa Bakwai">Hausa Bakwai</a>) of <a href="/wiki/Daura" title="Daura">Daura</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hadejia" title="Hadejia">Hadeija</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Katsina" title="Katsina">Katsina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zazzau" title="Zazzau">Zazzau</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rano" title="Rano">Rano</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Gobir" title="Gobir">Gobir</a> all having recorded histories dating back to the 10th century. With the spread of Islam from the 7th century AD, the area became known as <a href="/wiki/Sudan_(region)" title="Sudan (region)">Sudan</a> or as Bilad Al Sudan (English: Land of the Blacks). Since the populations were partially affiliated with the Arab Muslim culture of <a href="/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a>, they began <a href="/wiki/Trans-Saharan_trade" title="Trans-Saharan trade">trans-Saharan trade</a> and were referred to by the Arabic speakers as Al-Sudan (meaning "The Blacks") as they were considered an extended part of the <a href="/wiki/Muslim_world" title="Muslim world">Muslim world</a>. There are early historical references by medieval Arab and Muslim historians and geographers which refer to the <a href="/wiki/Kanem%E2%80%93Bornu_Empire" title="Kanem–Bornu Empire">Kanem–Bornu Empire</a> as the region's major centre for Islamic civilization.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Nri" title="Kingdom of Nri">Kingdom of Nri</a> of the Igbo people consolidated in the 10th century and continued until it lost its sovereignty to the British in 1911.<a href="#cite_note-Juang3-36">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[36]</a> Nri was ruled by the <a href="/wiki/List_of_rulers_of_Nri" title="List of rulers of Nri">Eze Nri</a>, and the city of Nri is considered to be the foundation of <a href="/wiki/Igbo_culture" title="Igbo culture">Igbo culture</a>. Nri and <a href="/wiki/Aguleri" title="Aguleri">Aguleri</a>, where the Igbo creation myth originates, are in the territory of the Umeuri clan. Members of the clan trace their lineages back to the patriarchal king-figure <a href="/wiki/Eri_(king)" title="Eri (king)">Eri</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[37]</a> In West Africa, the oldest bronzes made using the <a href="/wiki/Lost_wax_process" class="mw-redirect" title="Lost wax process">lost wax process</a> were from <a href="/wiki/Igbo-Ukwu" title="Igbo-Ukwu">Igbo-Ukwu</a>, a city under Nri influence.<a href="#cite_note-Juang3-36">[35]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> kingdoms of <a href="/wiki/Ife" class="mw-redirect" title="Ife">Ife</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo</a> in southwestern Nigeria became prominent in the 12th<a href="#cite_note-Falola13-39">[38]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[39]</a> and 14th<a href="#cite_note-41">[40]</a> centuries, respectively. The oldest signs of <a href="/wiki/Human" title="Human">human</a> settlement at Ife's current site date back to the 9th century,<a href="#cite_note-Falola13-39">[38]</a> and its material culture includes terracotta and bronze figures. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-colonial_era">Pre-colonial era</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Nigeria_(1500%E2%80%931800)" title="History of Nigeria (1500–1800)">History of Nigeria (1500–1800)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ancient_Benin_city.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ancient_Benin_city.JPG/220px-Ancient_Benin_city.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ancient_Benin_city.JPG/330px-Ancient_Benin_city.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Ancient_Benin_city.JPG/440px-Ancient_Benin_city.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1157" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>Depiction of <a href="/wiki/Benin_City" title="Benin City">Benin City</a> by a Dutch illustrator in 1668. The wall-like structure in the centre probably represents the <a href="/wiki/Walls_of_Benin" class="mw-redirect" title="Walls of Benin">walls of Benin</a>, housing the <a href="/wiki/Benin_bronze" class="mw-redirect" title="Benin bronze">Benin bronze</a> decorated historic <a href="/wiki/Royal_Palace_of_the_Oba_of_Benin" title="Royal Palace of the Oba of Benin">Benin City Palace</a>.</figcaption></figure> In the 16th century, <a href="/wiki/Portuguese_discoveries" class="mw-redirect" title="Portuguese discoveries">Portuguese explorers</a> were the first <a href="/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_Europe" title="Ethnic groups in Europe">Europeans</a> to begin important, direct trade with the peoples of southern Nigeria, at the port they named Lagos (formerly Eko) and in <a href="/wiki/Calabar" title="Calabar">Calabar</a> along the region <a href="/wiki/Slave_Coast_of_West_Africa" title="Slave Coast of West Africa">Slave Coast</a>. Europeans traded goods with peoples at the coast; coastal trade with Europeans also marked the beginnings of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a>.<a href="#cite_note-diverse-slavery-42">[41]</a> The port of Calabar on the historical <a href="/wiki/Bight_of_Biafra" title="Bight of Biafra">Bight of Biafra</a> (now commonly referred to as the Bight of Bonny) became one of the largest slave-trading posts in West Africa in this era. Other major slaving ports were located in <a href="/wiki/Badagry" title="Badagry">Badagry</a>, Lagos on the <a href="/wiki/Bight_of_Benin" title="Bight of Benin">Bight of Benin</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bonny_Island" title="Bonny Island">Bonny Island</a> on the Bight of Biafra.<a href="#cite_note-diverse-slavery-42">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-slave-trade-43">[42]</a> The majority of those taken to these ports were captured in raids and wars.<a href="#cite_note-44">[43]</a> Usually, the captives were taken back to the conquerors' territory as <a href="/wiki/Forced_labour" title="Forced labour">forced labour</a>; they were sometimes gradually acculturated and absorbed into the conquerors' society. Slave routes were established throughout Nigeria linking the hinterland areas with the major coastal ports. Some of the more prolific slave-trading kingdoms who participated in the Atlantic slave trade were linked with the Edo's <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Benin" title="Kingdom of Benin">Benin Empire</a> in the south, <a href="/wiki/Oyo_Empire" title="Oyo Empire">Oyo Empire</a> in the southwest, and the <a href="/wiki/Aro_Confederacy" title="Aro Confederacy">Aro Confederacy</a> in the southeast.<a href="#cite_note-diverse-slavery-42">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-slave-trade-43">[42]</a> Benin's power lasted between the 15th and 19th centuries.<a href="#cite_note-45">[44]</a> Oyo, at its territorial zenith in the late 17th to early 18th centuries, extended its influence from western Nigeria to modern-day <a href="/wiki/Togo" title="Togo">Togo</a>. In the north, the incessant fighting amongst the Hausa city-states and the decline of the <a href="/wiki/Kanem%E2%80%93Bornu_Empire" title="Kanem–Bornu Empire">Bornu Empire</a> allowed the Fulani people to gain headway into the region. Until this point, the Fulani, a <a href="/wiki/Nomad" title="Nomad">nomadic</a> ethnic group, primarily traversed the semi-desert <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahelian</a> region north of Sudan with cattle and avoided trade and intermingling with the Sudanic peoples. At the beginning of the 19th century, <a href="/wiki/Usman_dan_Fodio" title="Usman dan Fodio">Usman dan Fodio</a> led <a href="/wiki/Fulani_War" class="mw-redirect" title="Fulani War">a successful jihad</a> against the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_Kingdoms" title="Hausa Kingdoms">Hausa Kingdoms</a>, founding the centralised <a href="/wiki/Sokoto_Caliphate" title="Sokoto Caliphate">Sokoto Caliphate</a>. This empire, with Arabic as its official language, grew rapidly under his rule and that of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Sultans_of_Sokoto" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Sultans of Sokoto">his descendants</a>, who sent out <a href="/wiki/Fula_jihads" title="Fula jihads">invading armies</a> in every direction. The vast landlocked empire connected the east with the western Sudan region and made inroads down south conquering parts of the Oyo Empire (modern-day <a href="/wiki/Kwara_State" title="Kwara State">Kwara</a>), and advanced towards the <a href="/wiki/Yorubaland" title="Yorubaland">Yoruba heartland</a> of <a href="/wiki/Ibadan" title="Ibadan">Ibadan</a>, to reach the Atlantic Ocean. The territory controlled by the empire included much of modern-day northern and central Nigeria. The sultan sent out emirs to establish <a href="/wiki/Suzerainty" title="Suzerainty">suzerainty</a> over the conquered territories and promote Islamic civilization; the emirs in turn became increasingly rich and powerful through trade and slavery. By the 1890s, the largest <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_Africa" title="Slavery in Africa">slave population</a> in the world, about two million, was concentrated in the territories of the Sokoto <a href="/wiki/Caliphate" title="Caliphate">Caliphate</a>. The use of slave labour was extensive, especially in agriculture.<a href="#cite_note-46">[45]</a> By the time of its break-up in 1903 into various European colonies, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest pre-colonial African states.<a href="#cite_note-47">[46]</a> A changing legal imperative (the outlawing of the <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade" title="Atlantic slave trade">Atlantic slave trade</a> in 1807) and economic imperative (a desire for political and social stability) led most European powers to support the widespread cultivation of agricultural products, such as the palm, for use in European industry. The slave trade continued after the ban, as illegal smugglers purchased slaves along the coast from native slavers. Britain's <a href="/wiki/West_Africa_Squadron" title="West Africa Squadron">West Africa Squadron</a> sought to intercept the smugglers at sea. The <a href="/wiki/Saro_people" title="Saro people">rescued slaves</a> were taken to <a href="/wiki/Freetown" title="Freetown">Freetown</a>, a colony in West Africa originally established by <a href="/wiki/John_Clarkson_(abolitionist)" title="John Clarkson (abolitionist)">Lieutenant John Clarkson</a> for the resettlement of slaves freed by Britain in North America after the <a href="/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War" title="American Revolutionary War">American Revolutionary War</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="British_colonization">British colonization</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria" title="Colonial Nigeria">Colonial Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Royal_Niger_Company" title="Royal Niger Company">Royal Niger Company</a></div> Britain intervened in the Lagos kingship power struggle by bombarding Lagos in 1851, deposing the slave-trade-friendly <a href="/wiki/Kosoko" title="Kosoko">Oba Kosoko</a>, helping to install the amenable Oba <a href="/wiki/Akitoye" title="Akitoye">Akitoye</a> and signing the <a href="/wiki/Treaty_Between_Great_Britain_and_Lagos,_1_January_1852" title="Treaty Between Great Britain and Lagos, 1 January 1852">Treaty between Great Britain and Lagos</a> on 1 January 1852. <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">Britain</a> annexed Lagos as a <a href="/wiki/Crown_colony" title="Crown colony">crown colony</a> in August 1861 with the <a href="/wiki/Lagos_Treaty_of_Cession" title="Lagos Treaty of Cession">Lagos Treaty of Cession</a>. British missionaries expanded their operations and travelled further inland. In 1864, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Ajayi_Crowther" title="Samuel Ajayi Crowther">Samuel Ajayi Crowther</a> became the first African <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Nigeria" title="Church of Nigeria">bishop of the Anglican Church</a>.<a href="#cite_note-48">[47]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_(1888%E2%80%931906).svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg/130px-Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="130" height="65" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg/195px-Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg/260px-Flag_of_Lagos_Colony_%281888%E2%80%931906%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Flag of the <a href="/wiki/Lagos_Colony" title="Lagos Colony">Lagos Colony</a></figcaption></figure> In 1885, British claims to a West African <a href="/wiki/Sphere_of_influence" title="Sphere of influence">sphere of influence</a> received recognition from other European nations at the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_Conference" title="Berlin Conference">Berlin Conference</a>. The following year, it chartered the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Niger_Company" title="Royal Niger Company">Royal Niger Company</a> under the leadership of Sir <a href="/wiki/George_Taubman_Goldie" title="George Taubman Goldie">George Taubman Goldie</a>. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the company had vastly succeeded in subjugating the independent southern kingdoms along the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger River</a>, the British conquered <a href="/wiki/Benin_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Benin Empire">Benin</a> in 1897, and, in the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Aro_War" title="Anglo-Aro War">Anglo-Aro War</a> (1901–1902), defeated other opponents. The defeat of these states opened up the Niger area to British rule. In 1900, the company's territory came under the direct control of the British government and established the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Southern Nigeria Protectorate">Southern Nigeria Protectorate</a> as a British <a href="/wiki/Protectorate" title="Protectorate">protectorate</a> and part of the <a href="/wiki/British_Empire" title="British Empire">British Empire</a>. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg/170px-Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg/255px-Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg/340px-Tcitp_d012_frederick_john_dealtry_lugard_and_wife.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1724" data-file-height="2298" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lugard,_1st_Baron_Lugard" title="Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard">The Lord</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flora_Shaw,_Lady_Lugard" title="Flora Shaw, Lady Lugard">Lady Lugard</a>, 1908</figcaption></figure> By 1902, the British had begun plans to move north into the Sokoto Caliphate. British General Lord <a href="/wiki/Frederick_Lugard,_1st_Baron_Lugard" title="Frederick Lugard, 1st Baron Lugard">Frederick Lugard</a> was tasked by the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Office" title="Colonial Office">Colonial Office</a> to implement the agenda. Lugard used rivalries between many of the emirs in the southern reach of the caliphate and the central Sokoto administration to prevent any defence as he worked towards the capital. As the British approached the city of <a href="/wiki/Sokoto" title="Sokoto">Sokoto</a>, Sultan <a href="/wiki/Muhammadu_Attahiru_I" title="Muhammadu Attahiru I">Muhammadu Attahiru I</a> organized a quick defence of the city and fought the advancing British-led forces. The British force quickly won, sending Attahiru I and thousands of followers on a <a href="/wiki/Mahdi" title="Mahdi">Mahdist</a> <a href="/wiki/Hegira" class="mw-redirect" title="Hegira">hijra</a>. In the northeast, the decline of the <a href="/wiki/Kanem%E2%80%93Bornu_Empire" title="Kanem–Bornu Empire">Bornu Empire</a> gave rise to the British-controlled <a href="/wiki/Borno_Emirate" title="Borno Emirate">Borno Emirate</a> which established <a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Garbai_of_Borno" title="Abubakar Garbai of Borno">Abubakar Garbai of Borno</a> as ruler. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg/220px-Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="136" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg/330px-Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg/440px-Emir_of_Kano-1911.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="469" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Abbas_(Emir_of_Kano)" title="Muhammad Abbas (Emir of Kano)">Emir of Kano</a> with cavalry, 1911</figcaption></figure>In 1903, the British victory in the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kano_(1903)" class="mw-redirect" title="Battle of Kano (1903)">Battle of Kano</a> gave them a logistical edge in <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kwatarkwashi" title="Battle of Kwatarkwashi">pacifying the heartland of the Sokoto Caliphate</a> and parts of the former Bornu Empire. On 13 March 1903, at the grand market square of Sokoto, the last <a href="/wiki/Sokoto_Grand_Vizier" title="Sokoto Grand Vizier">vizier of the caliphate</a> officially conceded to British rule. The British appointed <a href="/wiki/Muhammadu_Attahiru_II" title="Muhammadu Attahiru II">Muhammadu Attahiru II</a> as the new caliph. Lugard abolished the caliphate but retained the title sultan as a symbolic position in the newly organized <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Northern Nigeria Protectorate">Northern Nigeria Protectorate</a>. This remnant became known as "<a href="/wiki/Sokoto_Sultanate_Council" title="Sokoto Sultanate Council">Sokoto Sultanate Council</a>". In June 1903, the British defeated the remaining northern forces of Attahiru. By 1906, all resistance to British rule had ended. On 1 January 1914, the British formally united the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Southern Nigeria Protectorate">Southern Nigeria Protectorate</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria_Protectorate" title="Northern Nigeria Protectorate">Northern Nigeria Protectorate</a> into the <a href="/wiki/Colonial_Nigeria" title="Colonial Nigeria">Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria</a>. Administratively, Nigeria remained divided into the Northern and Southern Protectorates and <a href="/wiki/Lagos_Colony" title="Lagos Colony">Lagos Colony</a>. Inhabitants of the southern region sustained more interaction, economic and cultural, with the British and other Europeans owing to the coastal economy.<a href="#cite_note-49">[48]</a> Christian missions established Western educational institutions in the protectorates. Under Britain's policy of indirect rule and validation of Islamic legitimist tradition, the Crown did not encourage the operation of Christian missions in the northern, Islamic part of the country.<a href="#cite_note-50">[49]</a> By the mid-20th century following <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Decolonisation_of_Africa" title="Decolonisation of Africa">wave for independence</a> was sweeping across Africa, in response to the growth of Nigerian nationalism and demands for independence, successive constitutions legislated by the British government moved Nigeria toward self-government on a representative and increasingly federal basis. By the eve of independence in 1960, regional differences in modern educational access were marked. The legacy, though less pronounced, continues to the present day. The balance between north and south was also expressed in Nigeria's political life. For instance, northern Nigeria did not outlaw slavery until 1936 whilst in other parts of Nigeria, slavery was abolished soon after colonialism.<a href="#cite_note-51">[50]</a><a href="#cite_note-slave-trade-43">[42]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg/220px-Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg/330px-Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg/440px-Stamp_Cameroons_2d-600px.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="395" /></a><figcaption>1953 postage stamp with portrait of Queen <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nnamdi_Azikiwe_PC_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Nnamdi_Azikiwe_PC_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="154" height="205" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="154" data-file-height="205" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe" title="Nnamdi Azikiwe">Nnamdi Azikiwe</a>, first President of Nigeria (1963–1966)</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Independence_and_federal_republic">Independence and federal republic</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Nigeria" title="Federation of Nigeria">Federation of Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/First_Nigerian_Republic" title="First Nigerian Republic">First Nigerian Republic</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Independence_Day_(Nigeria)" title="Independence Day (Nigeria)">Independence Day (Nigeria)</a></div> Nigeria gained a degree of self-rule in 1954, and full independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960, as the <a href="/wiki/Federation_of_Nigeria" title="Federation of Nigeria">Federation of Nigeria</a> with <a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa" title="Abubakar Tafawa Balewa">Abubakar Tafawa Balewa</a> as its <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Nigeria" title="Prime Minister of Nigeria">Prime Minister</a>, while retaining the <a href="/wiki/Monarchy_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Monarchy of the United Kingdom">British monarch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_II" title="Elizabeth II">Elizabeth II</a>, as nominal head of state and <a href="/wiki/Queen_of_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen of Nigeria">Queen of Nigeria</a>. Azikiwe replaced the colonial <a href="/wiki/Governor-general" title="Governor-general">governor-general</a> in November 1960. At independence, the cultural and political differences were sharp among Nigeria's dominant ethnic groups: the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_people" title="Hausa people">Hausa</a> in the north, Igbo in the east and Yoruba in the west.<a href="#cite_note-JBS2-52">[51]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Westminster_system" title="Westminster system">Westminster system</a> of government was retained, and thus the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President</a>'s powers were generally ceremonial.<a href="#cite_note-53">[52]</a> The parliamentary system of government had <a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa" title="Abubakar Tafawa Balewa">Abubakar Tafawa Balewa</a> as <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">Prime Minister</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe" title="Nnamdi Azikiwe">Nnamdi Azikiwe</a> as the ceremonial president. The founding government was a coalition of conservative parties: the <a href="/wiki/Northern_People%27s_Congress" title="Northern People's Congress">Northern People's Congress</a> led by Sir <a href="/wiki/Ahmadu_Bello" title="Ahmadu Bello">Ahmadu Bello</a>, a party dominated by Muslim northerners, and the Igbo and Christian-dominated <a href="/wiki/National_Council_of_Nigeria_and_the_Cameroons" title="National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons">National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons</a> led by <a href="/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe" title="Nnamdi Azikiwe">Nnamdi Azikiwe</a>. The opposition consisted of the comparatively liberal <a href="/wiki/Action_Group_(Nigeria)" title="Action Group (Nigeria)">Action Group</a>, which was largely dominated by the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> and led by <a href="/wiki/Obafemi_Awolowo" title="Obafemi Awolowo">Obafemi Awolowo</a>. An imbalance was created in the polity as the result of the <a href="/wiki/Southern_Cameroons#Trust_territory" title="Southern Cameroons">1961 plebiscite</a>. <a href="/wiki/Southern_Cameroons" title="Southern Cameroons">Southern Cameroons</a> opted to join the <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Republic of Cameroon</a> while <a href="/wiki/British_Cameroon" class="mw-redirect" title="British Cameroon">Northern Cameroons</a> chose to join Nigeria. The northern part of the country became larger than the southern part. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Balewa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Abubakar Tafawa Balewa" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Balewa.jpg/155px-Balewa.jpg" decoding="async" width="155" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Balewa.jpg/232px-Balewa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Balewa.jpg/309px-Balewa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="420" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa" title="Abubakar Tafawa Balewa">Abubakar Tafawa Balewa</a>, Nigeria's first Prime Minister during the 1st republic. </figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fall_of_the_First_Republic_and_Civil_War">Fall of the First Republic and Civil War</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1966 Nigerian coup d'état">1966 Nigerian coup d'état</a>, <a href="/wiki/1966_Nigerian_counter-coup" title="1966 Nigerian counter-coup">1966 Nigerian counter-coup</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a></div> The disequilibrium and perceived corruption of the electoral and political process led to two <a href="/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="Coup d'état">military coups</a> in 1966. The <a href="/wiki/1966_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1966 Nigerian coup d'état">first coup was in January 1966</a> and was led mostly by soldiers under Majors <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Ifeajuna" title="Emmanuel Ifeajuna">Emmanuel Ifeajuna</a> (of the <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbo</a> tribe), <a href="/wiki/Chukwuma_Kaduna_Nzeogwu" class="mw-redirect" title="Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu">Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu</a> (<a href="/wiki/Northern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Northern Region, Nigeria">Northerner</a> of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Eastern Region, Nigeria">Eastern</a> extraction) and <a href="/wiki/Adewale_Ademoyega" title="Adewale Ademoyega">Adewale Ademoyega</a> (a Yoruba from the West). The coup plotters succeeded in assassinating Sir <a href="/wiki/Ahmadu_Bello" title="Ahmadu Bello">Ahmadu Bello</a> and Sir <a href="/wiki/Abubakar_Tafawa_Balewa" title="Abubakar Tafawa Balewa">Abubakar Tafawa Balewa</a> alongside prominent leaders of the Northern Region and Premier <a href="/wiki/Ladoke_Akintola" title="Ladoke Akintola">Samuel Akintola</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Western_State_(Nigeria)" title="Western State (Nigeria)">Western Region</a>, but the plotters struggled to form a central government. Senate President <a href="/wiki/Nwafor_Orizu" title="Nwafor Orizu">Nwafor Orizu</a> handed over government control to the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Army" title="Nigerian Army">Army</a>, under the command of another Igbo officer, Major General<a href="#cite_note-54">[53]</a> <a href="/wiki/Johnson_Aguiyi-Ironsi" title="Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi">Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi</a>. Later, the counter-coup of 1966, supported primarily by Northern military officers, facilitated the rise of <a href="/wiki/Yakubu_Gowon" title="Yakubu Gowon">Yakubu Gowon</a> as military head of state. Tension rose between north and south; <a href="/wiki/1966_anti-Igbo_pogrom" title="1966 anti-Igbo pogrom">Igbos in northern cities suffered persecution</a> and many fled to the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Eastern Region, Nigeria">Eastern Region</a>.<a href="#cite_note-55">[54]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg/220px-Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg/330px-Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg/440px-Biafra_independent_state_map-en.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1100" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Biafra" title="Biafra">Republic of Biafra</a> in June 1967, when it declared its independence from the rest of Nigeria</figcaption></figure> In May 1967, Governor of the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Eastern Region, Nigeria">Eastern Region</a> Lt. Colonel <a href="/wiki/C._Odumegwu_Ojukwu" class="mw-redirect" title="C. Odumegwu Ojukwu">Emeka Ojukwu</a> declared the region independent from the federation as a state called the <a href="/wiki/Biafra" title="Biafra">Republic of Biafra</a>, as a result of the continuous and systematically planned attacks against Igbos and those of <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Region,_Nigeria" title="Eastern Region, Nigeria">Eastern</a> extraction popularly known as 1966 <a href="/wiki/1966_anti-Igbo_pogrom" title="1966 anti-Igbo pogrom">pogroms</a>.<a href="#cite_note-56">[55]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[56]</a> This declaration precipitated the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a>, which began as the official Nigerian government side attacked Biafra on 6 July 1967, at Garkem. The 30-month war, with a long <a href="/wiki/Blockade_of_Biafra" title="Blockade of Biafra">blockade of Biafra</a> and its isolation from trade and international relief, ended in January 1970.<a href="#cite_note-DDRS-58">[57]</a> Estimates of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_wars_by_death_toll" title="List of wars by death toll">number of dead</a> in the former Eastern Region during the 30-month civil war range from one to three million.<a href="#cite_note-59">[58]</a> Britain and the Soviet Union were the main military backers of the Nigerian government, with Nigeria utilizing air support from Egyptian pilots provided by <a href="/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser" title="Gamal Abdel Nasser">Gamal Abdel Nasser</a>,<a href="#cite_note-60">[59]</a><a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a> while France and Israel aided the Biafrans. The <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_the_Congo" title="Democratic Republic of the Congo">Congolese</a> government, under President <a href="/wiki/Mobutu_Sese_Seko" title="Mobutu Sese Seko">Joseph-Désiré Mobutu</a>, took an early stand on the Biafran secession, voicing strong support for the Nigerian federal government<a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a> and deploying thousands of troops to fight against the <a href="/wiki/Separatist_movements_of_Nigeria" title="Separatist movements of Nigeria">secessionists</a>.<a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a><a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a> Following the war, Nigeria enjoyed an <a href="/wiki/Oil_boom" title="Oil boom">oil boom</a> in the 1970s, during which the country joined <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a> and received huge oil revenues. Despite these revenues, the military government did little to improve the <a href="/wiki/Standard_of_living" title="Standard of living">standard of living</a>, help small and medium businesses, or invest in infrastructure. As oil revenues fueled the rise of federal subsidies to states, the federal government became the centre of political struggle and the threshold of power in the country. As oil production and revenue rose, the Nigerian government became increasingly dependent on oil revenues and international commodity markets for budgetary and economic concerns.<a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1975_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1975 Nigerian coup d'état">coup in July 1975</a>, led by Generals <a href="/wiki/Shehu_Musa_Yar%27Adua" title="Shehu Musa Yar'Adua">Shehu Musa Yar'Adua</a> and <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Nanven_Garba" title="Joseph Nanven Garba">Joseph Garba</a>, ousted Gowon,<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201142–43Derfler201181-66">[65]</a> who fled to Britain.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDerfler201182-67">[66]</a> The coup plotters wanted to replace Gowon's autocratic rule with a triumvirate of three brigadier generals whose decisions could be vetoed by a <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Military_Council_of_Nigeria_(1966%E2%80%931979)" title="Supreme Military Council of Nigeria (1966–1979)">Supreme Military Council</a>. For this triumvirate, they convinced General <a href="/wiki/Murtala_Muhammed" title="Murtala Muhammed">Murtala Muhammed</a> to become military head of state, with General <a href="/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo" title="Olusegun Obasanjo">Olusegun Obasanjo</a> as his second-in-command, and General <a href="/wiki/Theophilus_Danjuma" title="Theophilus Danjuma">Theophilus Danjuma</a> as the third.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201143Derfler201181-68">[67]</a> Together, the triumvirate introduced austerity measures to stem inflation, established a Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau, replaced all military governors with new officers, and launched "Operation Deadwood" through which they fired 11,000 officials from the civil service.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201144-69">[68]</a> Colonel <a href="/wiki/Buka_Suka_Dimka" class="mw-redirect" title="Buka Suka Dimka">Buka Suka Dimka</a> launched a <a href="/wiki/1976_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt">February 1976 coup attempt</a>,<a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a> during which General Murtala Muhammed was assassinated. Dimka lacked widespread support among the military, and his coup failed, forcing him to flee.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201148-71">[70]</a> After the coup attempt, General Olusegun Obasanjo was appointed military head of state.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201148–49Derfler201185-72">[71]</a> Obasanjo vowed to continue Murtala's policies.<a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEIliffe201150Derfler201185-73">[72]</a> Aware of the danger of alienating northern Nigerians, Obasanjo brought General Shehu Yar'Adua as his replacement and second-in-command as <a href="/wiki/Vice_President_of_Nigeria" title="Vice President of Nigeria">Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters</a> completing the military triumvirate, with Obasanjo as head of state and General Theophilus Danjuma as <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_Army_Staff_(Nigeria)" title="Chief of Army Staff (Nigeria)">Chief of Army Staff</a>, the three went on to re-establish control over the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_military_juntas_of_1966%E2%80%9379_and_1983%E2%80%9399" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian military juntas of 1966–79 and 1983–99">military regime</a> and organized the military's transfer of power programme: <a href="/wiki/States_of_Nigeria" title="States of Nigeria">states creation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Boundary_delimitation" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary delimitation">national delimitation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Nigeria" title="Local government areas of Nigeria">local government reforms</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria#1979_constitution_(Second_Republic)" title="Constitution of Nigeria">constitutional drafting committee</a> for a new republic.<a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Second_Republic_and_military_dictatorship">Second Republic and military dictatorship</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Second_Nigerian_Republic" title="Second Nigerian Republic">Second Nigerian Republic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Nigeria" title="Military dictatorship in Nigeria">Military dictatorship in Nigeria</a></div> The military carefully planned the return to civilian rule putting in place measures to ensure that political parties had broader support than witnessed during the first republic. In 1979, five political parties competed in a series of elections in which Alhaji <a href="/wiki/Shehu_Shagari" title="Shehu Shagari">Shehu Shagari</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Party_of_Nigeria" title="National Party of Nigeria">National Party of Nigeria</a> (NPN) was elected president. All five parties won representation in the National Assembly. On 1 October 1979, Shehu Shagari was sworn in as the first <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President and Commander-in-Chief</a> of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Obasanjo peacefully transferred power to Shagari, becoming the first head of state in Nigerian history to willingly step down.<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg/170px-Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="208" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg/255px-Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg/340px-Shehu_Shagari_1980-10-07.jpg 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="490" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Shehu_Shagari" title="Shehu Shagari">Shehu Shagari</a> was the first elected <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President of Nigeria</a> from 1979 to 1983.</figcaption></figure>The Shagari government became viewed as corrupt by virtually all sectors of Nigerian society. In 1983, the inspectors of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation began to notice "the slow poisoning of the waters of this country".<a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a> In August 1983, Shagari and the NPN were returned to power in a landslide victory, with a majority of seats in the National Assembly and control of 12 state governments. But the elections were marred by violence, and allegations of widespread vote-rigging and electoral malfeasance led to legal battles over the results. There were also uncertainties, such as in the first republic, that political leaders may be unable to govern properly. The <a href="/wiki/1983_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1983 Nigerian coup d'état">1983 military coup d'état</a> was coordinated by key officers of the Nigerian military and led to the overthrow of the government and the installation of Major General <a href="/wiki/Muhammadu_Buhari" title="Muhammadu Buhari">Muhammadu Buhari</a> as head of state. The military coup of Muhammadu Buhari shortly after the regime's re-election in 1984 was generally viewed as a positive development.<a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a> In 1985, <a href="/wiki/Ibrahim_Babangida" title="Ibrahim Babangida">Ibrahim Babangida</a> overthrew Buhari in a coup d'état. In 1986, Babangida established the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Political_Bureau_of_1986" title="Nigerian Political Bureau of 1986">Nigerian Political Bureau</a> which made recommendations for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. In 1989, Babangida started making plans for the transition to the Third Nigerian Republic. Babangida survived the <a href="/wiki/1990_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt" class="mw-redirect" title="1990 Nigerian coup d'état attempt">1990 Nigerian coup d'état attempt</a>, then postponed a promised return to democracy to 1992.<a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="12_June_and_the_crisis_of_the_Third_Republic">12 June and the crisis of the Third Republic</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Third_Nigerian_Republic" title="Third Nigerian Republic">Third Nigerian Republic</a> and <a href="/wiki/1993_Nigerian_presidential_election" title="1993 Nigerian presidential election">1993 Nigerian presidential election</a></div> Babangida legalized the formation of political parties and formed the two-party system with the <a href="/wiki/Social_Democratic_Party_(Nigeria)" title="Social Democratic Party (Nigeria)">Social Democratic Party</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Republican_Convention" title="National Republican Convention">National Republican Convention</a> ahead of the <a href="/wiki/1992_Nigerian_parliamentary_election" title="1992 Nigerian parliamentary election">1992 general elections</a>. He urged all Nigerians to join either of the parties, which Chief <a href="/wiki/Bola_Ige" title="Bola Ige">Bola Ige</a> referred to as "two leper hands". The <a href="/wiki/1993_Nigerian_presidential_election" title="1993 Nigerian presidential election">1993 presidential election</a> held on 12 June was the first since the military coup of 1983. The results, though not officially declared by the National Electoral Commission, showed the duo of <a href="/wiki/Moshood_Abiola" title="Moshood Abiola">Moshood Abiola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Baba_Gana_Kingibe" title="Baba Gana Kingibe">Baba Gana Kingibe</a> of the Social Democratic Party defeated <a href="/wiki/Bashir_Tofa" title="Bashir Tofa">Bashir Tofa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Ugoh" title="Sylvester Ugoh">Sylvester Ugoh</a> of the National Republican Convention by over 2.3 million votes. However, Babangida annulled the elections, leading to massive civilian protests that effectively shut down the country for weeks. In August 1993, Babangida finally kept his promise to relinquish power to a civilian government but not before appointing <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Shonekan" title="Ernest Shonekan">Ernest Shonekan</a> head of an <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Ernest_Shonekan" class="mw-redirect" title="Cabinet of Ernest Shonekan">interim national government</a>.<a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a> Babangida's regime has been considered the most corrupt and responsible for creating a culture of corruption in Nigeria.<a href="#cite_note-79">[78]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg/170px-Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg/255px-Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg/340px-Abdulsalami_Abubakar_detail_DF-SC-02-04323.jpg 2x" data-file-width="550" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abdulsalami_Abubakar" title="Abdulsalami Abubakar">Abdulsalami Abubakar</a>, military ruler in 1998 saw the return to democracy in 1999</figcaption></figure> Shonekan's interim government, the shortest in the political history of the country, was overthrown in a <a href="/wiki/1993_Nigerian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat" title="1993 Nigerian coup d'état">coup d'état of 1993</a> led by General <a href="/wiki/Sani_Abacha" title="Sani Abacha">Sani Abacha</a>, who used military force on a wide scale to suppress the continuing civilian unrest. In 1995, the government hanged environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa on trumped-up charges in the deaths of four <a href="/wiki/Ogoni_people" title="Ogoni people">Ogoni</a> elders, which caused Nigerian's <a href="/wiki/Suspension_from_the_Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Suspension from the Commonwealth of Nations">suspension from the Commonwealth</a>. Lawsuits under the American <a href="/wiki/Alien_Tort_Statute" title="Alien Tort Statute">Alien Tort Statute</a> against <a href="/wiki/Royal_Dutch_Shell" class="mw-redirect" title="Royal Dutch Shell">Royal Dutch Shell</a> and Brian Anderson, the head of Shell's Nigerian operation, settled out of court with Shell continuing to deny liability.<a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a> Several hundred million dollars in accounts traced to Abacha were discovered in 1999.<a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a> The regime came to an end in 1998 when the dictator died in the villa. He looted money to offshore accounts in Western European banks and defeated coup plots by arresting and bribing generals and politicians. His successor, General <a href="/wiki/Abdulsalami_Abubakar" title="Abdulsalami Abubakar">Abdulsalami Abubakar</a>, adopted a new constitution on 5 May 1999, which provided for multiparty elections. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_democracy_(1999–present)">Return to democracy (1999–present)</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Fourth_Nigerian_Republic" title="Fourth Nigerian Republic">Fourth Nigerian Republic</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg/170px-Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="232" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg/255px-Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg/340px-Olusegun_Obasanjo_DD-SC-07-14396-cropped.jpg 2x" data-file-width="547" data-file-height="747" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo" title="Olusegun Obasanjo">Olusegun Obasanjo</a> served as president of Nigeria from 1999 to 2007.</figcaption></figure> On 29 May 1999, Abubakar handed over power to the winner of the 1999 presidential election, former military ruler General <a href="/wiki/Olusegun_Obasanjo" title="Olusegun Obasanjo">Olusegun Obasanjo</a>, as President of Nigeria. Obasanjo had been in prison under the dictatorship of Abacha. Obasanjo's inauguration heralded the beginning of the Fourth Nigerian Republic,<a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a> ending a 39-year period of short-lived democracies, civil war and military dictatorship. Although the elections that brought Obasanjo to power and allowed him to run for a second term in the 2003 presidential elections were condemned as unfree and unfair, Nigeria made significant progress in democratization under Obasanjo.<a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a> In the 2007 general elections, <a href="/wiki/Umaru_Musa_Yar%27Adua" title="Umaru Musa Yar'Adua">Umaru Yar'Adua</a> of the People's Democratic Party came to power. The international community, which had observed the Nigerian elections to promote a free and fair process, condemned these elections as seriously flawed.<a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a> Yar'Adua died on 5 May 2010, and Vice President <a href="/wiki/Goodluck_Jonathan" title="Goodluck Jonathan">Goodluck Jonathan</a> had been sworn in by the Senate three months earlier as acting president to succeed Yar'Adua.<a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a> Jonathan won the 2011 presidential election; the polls went smoothly and with relatively little violence or electoral fraud.<a href="#cite_note-New_York2-87">[86]</a> Jonathan's tenure saw an economic recovery that made Nigeria the leading economic power in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a> The Jonathan administration also saw an increase in unparalleled corruption, with as many as 20 billion US dollars said to have been lost to the Nigerian state through the national oil company. Above all, however, Jonathan's tenure saw the emergence of a wave of terror by the <a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram_insurgency" title="Boko Haram insurgency">Boko Haram insurgency</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Gwoza_massacre" title="Gwoza massacre">Gwoza massacre</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chibok_schoolgirls_kidnapping" title="Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping">Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping</a> in 2014.<a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a> Ahead of the <a href="/wiki/2015_Nigerian_general_election" title="2015 Nigerian general election">general election of 2015</a>, a merger of the biggest opposition parties in Nigeria – the <a href="/wiki/Action_Congress_of_Nigeria" title="Action Congress of Nigeria">Action Congress of Nigeria</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Congress_for_Progressive_Change" title="Congress for Progressive Change">Congress for Progressive Change</a>, the <a href="/wiki/All_Nigeria_Peoples_Party" title="All Nigeria Peoples Party">All Nigeria Peoples Party</a>, a faction of the <a href="/wiki/All_Progressives_Grand_Alliance" title="All Progressives Grand Alliance">All Progressives Grand Alliance</a> and the new PDP (a faction of serving governors of the ruling People's Democratic Party) – formed the <a href="/wiki/All_Progressives_Congress" title="All Progressives Congress">All Progressives Congress</a> led by current president Bola Ahmed Tinubu. At the time, it was the most expensive election ever to be held on the African continent (being surpassed only by the elections of <a href="/wiki/2019_Nigerian_general_election" title="2019 Nigerian general election">2019</a> and <a href="/wiki/2023_Nigerian_presidential_election" title="2023 Nigerian presidential election">2023</a>). The new mega-opposition party chose as their candidate for the election former military dictator Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari's campaign in 2015 was popular and built around his image as a staunch anti-corruption fighter—he won the election by over two million votes. Observers generally praised the election as being fair.<a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a><a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a><a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-94">[93]</a> The election marked the first time an incumbent president had lost re-election in Nigeria. In the <a href="/wiki/2019_Nigerian_general_election" title="2019 Nigerian general election">2019 presidential election</a>, Buhari was re-elected.<a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a> Four candidates vied for the presidency in the <a href="/wiki/2023_Nigerian_presidential_election" title="2023 Nigerian presidential election">2023 presidential election</a>. For the first time since the return of democracy, no former military ruler ran for president, marking a strengthening of democracy and faith in the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria" title="Constitution of Nigeria">multiparty constitution</a>. The election also saw the rise of metonymic supporters of the new candidates, the <a href="/wiki/Obidient_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Obidient Movement">Obidient movement</a> of <a href="/wiki/Peter_Obi" title="Peter Obi">Peter Obi</a>, previously governor of Anambra State, widely appealed to young, urban voters and has his core base in the Southeast;<a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a> and the Kwankwassiya of <a href="/wiki/Rabiu_Kwankwaso" title="Rabiu Kwankwaso">Rabiu Kwankwaso</a>, former governor of <a href="/wiki/Kano_State" title="Kano State">Kano State</a> in the Northwest.<a href="#cite_note-97">[96]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg/170px-Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg/255px-Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg/340px-Bola_Tinubu_portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1687" data-file-height="2109" /></a><figcaption>Chief <a href="/wiki/Bola_Tinubu" title="Bola Tinubu">Bola Tinubu</a> is currently serving as President of Nigeria since 29 May 2023.</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Bola_Tinubu" title="Bola Tinubu">Bola Tinubu</a>, of the ruling party, won the disputed election with 36.61% of the vote,<a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a> but both runners-up claimed victory and litigation is ongoing in an election tribunal.<a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a> Bola Tinubu's <a href="/wiki/Inauguration_of_Bola_Tinubu" title="Inauguration of Bola Tinubu">inauguration</a> was held on 29 May 2023.<a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a> Problems with widespread <a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_in_Nigeria" title="Kidnapping in Nigeria">kidnapping in Nigeria</a> continued.<a href="#cite_note-101">[100]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Geography_of_Nigeria" title="Geography of Nigeria">Geography of Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_Nigeria" title="Geology of Nigeria">Geology of Nigeria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wildlife_of_Nigeria" title="Wildlife of Nigeria">Wildlife of Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigeria_Topography.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Nigeria_Topography.png/220px-Nigeria_Topography.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="199" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Nigeria_Topography.png/330px-Nigeria_Topography.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d9/Nigeria_Topography.png/440px-Nigeria_Topography.png 2x" data-file-width="1708" data-file-height="1547" /></a><figcaption>Topography of Nigeria</figcaption></figure> Nigeria is located in western Africa on the <a href="/wiki/Gulf_of_Guinea" title="Gulf of Guinea">Gulf of Guinea</a> and has a total area of 923,768 km2 (356,669 sq mi),<a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a> making it the world's <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_area" title="List of countries and dependencies by area">32nd-largest country</a>. Its borders span 4,047 kilometres (2,515 mi), and it shares borders with Benin (773 km or 480 mi), Niger (1,497 km or 930 mi), Chad (87 km or 54 mi), and Cameroon (including the separatist <a href="/wiki/Ambazonia" title="Ambazonia">Ambazonia</a>) 1,690 km or 1,050 mi. Its <a href="/wiki/Coastline" class="mw-redirect" title="Coastline">coastline</a> is at least 853 km (530 mi).<a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a> Nigeria lies between latitudes <a href="/wiki/4th_parallel_north" title="4th parallel north">4°</a> and <a href="/wiki/14th_parallel_north" title="14th parallel north">14°N</a>, and longitudes <a href="/wiki/2nd_meridian_east" title="2nd meridian east">2°</a> and <a href="/wiki/15th_meridian_east" title="15th meridian east">15°E</a>. The highest point in Nigeria is <a href="/wiki/Chappal_Waddi" title="Chappal Waddi">Chappal Waddi</a> at 2,419 m (7,936 ft). The main rivers are the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Benue_River" title="Benue River">Benue</a>, which converge and empty into the <a href="/wiki/Niger_Delta" title="Niger Delta">Niger Delta</a>. This is one of the world's largest river deltas and the location of a large area of Central African <a href="/wiki/Mangrove" title="Mangrove">mangroves</a>. Nigeria's most expansive topographical region is that of the valleys of the Niger and Benue river valleys (which merge and form a Y-shape).<a href="#cite_note-encarta22-104">[103]</a> To the southwest of the Niger is a "rugged" <a href="/wiki/Highland_(geography)" class="mw-redirect" title="Highland (geography)">highland</a>. To the southeast of the Benue are hills and mountains, which form the <a href="/wiki/Mambilla_Plateau" title="Mambilla Plateau">Mambilla Plateau</a>, the highest plateau in Nigeria. This plateau extends through the border with <a href="/wiki/Cameroon" title="Cameroon">Cameroon</a>, where the <a href="/wiki/Montane" class="mw-redirect" title="Montane">montane</a> land is part of the <a href="/wiki/Bamenda_Highlands" class="mw-redirect" title="Bamenda Highlands">Bamenda Highlands</a> of Cameroon. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg/220px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg/330px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg/440px-Koppen-Geiger_Map_NGA_present.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1430" data-file-height="850" /></a><figcaption>Climate map of Nigeria</figcaption></figure> The far south is defined by its <a href="/wiki/Tropical_rainforest_climate" title="Tropical rainforest climate">tropical rainforest climate</a>, where annual rainfall is 1,500 to 2,000 millimetres (60 to 80 in) per year.<a href="#cite_note-gai52-105">[104]</a> In the southeast stands the <a href="/wiki/Obudu_Plateau" title="Obudu Plateau">Obudu Plateau</a>. <a href="/wiki/Coastal_plain" title="Coastal plain">Coastal plains</a> are found in both the southwest and the southeast.<a href="#cite_note-encarta22-104">[103]</a> <a href="/wiki/Mangrove_swamp" class="mw-redirect" title="Mangrove swamp">Mangrove swamps</a> are found along the coast.<a href="#cite_note-gai42-106">[105]</a> The area near the border with Cameroon close to the coast is rich rainforest and part of the <a href="/wiki/Cross%E2%80%93Sanaga%E2%80%93Bioko_coastal_forests" title="Cross–Sanaga–Bioko coastal forests">Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests</a> <a href="/wiki/Ecoregion" title="Ecoregion">ecoregion</a>, an important centre for <a href="/wiki/Biodiversity" title="Biodiversity">biodiversity</a>. It is a habitat for the <a href="/wiki/Drill_(animal)" title="Drill (animal)">drill primate</a>, which is found in the wild only in this area and across the border in Cameroon. The areas surrounding <a href="/wiki/Calabar" title="Calabar">Calabar</a>, Cross River State, also in this forest, are believed to contain the world's largest diversity of butterflies. The area of southern Nigeria between the Niger and the <a href="/wiki/Cross_River_(Nigeria)" title="Cross River (Nigeria)">Cross Rivers</a> has lost most of its forest because of development and harvesting by increased population and has been <a href="/wiki/Cross%E2%80%93Niger_transition_forests" title="Cross–Niger transition forests">replaced by grassland</a>. Everything in between the far south and the far north is <a href="/wiki/Savanna" title="Savanna">savannah</a> (insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees). Rainfall is more limited to between 500 and 1,500 millimetres (20 and 60 in) per year.<a href="#cite_note-gai52-105">[104]</a> The savannah zone's three categories are <a href="/wiki/Guinean_forest%E2%80%93savanna_mosaic" title="Guinean forest–savanna mosaic">Guinean forest-savanna mosaic</a>, Sudan savannah, and Sahel savannah. Guinean forest-savanna mosaic is plains of tall grass interrupted by trees. Sudan savannah is similar but with shorter grasses and shorter trees. Sahel savannah consists of patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast.<a href="#cite_note-gai42-106">[105]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg/220px-Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="277" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg/330px-Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg/440px-Megachad_en_disappearance_of_lake_chad.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1196" data-file-height="1508" /></a><figcaption>Shrinking of <a href="/wiki/Lake_Chad" title="Lake Chad">Lake Chad</a> in north-eastern Nigeria, with the outline of the <a href="/wiki/British_Isles" title="British Isles">British Isles</a> for size comparison</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Hydrology">Hydrology</h3></div> Nigeria is divided into two main catchment areas - that of Lake Chad and that of the Niger. The Niger catchment area covers about 63% of the country. The main tributary of the Niger is the Benue, whose tributaries extend beyond Cameroon into Cameroon into Chad and the Sharie catchment area. In the Sahel region, rain is less than 500 millimetres (20 in) per year, and the <a href="/wiki/Sahara" title="Sahara">Sahara Desert</a> is encroaching.<a href="#cite_note-gai52-105">[104]</a> In the dry northeast corner of the country lies <a href="/wiki/Lake_Chad" title="Lake Chad">Lake Chad</a>, on a <a href="/wiki/Lake_Chad_Basin_Commission" title="Lake Chad Basin Commission">shared water</a> boundary <a href="/wiki/Boundary_delimitation" class="mw-redirect" title="Boundary delimitation">delimitation</a> with Niger, Chad and Cameroon. The Chad Basin is fed from the north-eastern quarter of Nigeria. The Bauchi Plateau forms the watershed between the Niger/Benue and Komadugu Yobe river systems. The flat plains of north-eastern Nigeria are geographically part of the Chad Basin, where the course of the El Beid River forms the border with Cameroon, from the Mandara Mountains to Lake Chad. The Komadugu Yobe river system gives rise to the internationally important Hadejia-Nguru wetlands and Ox-bow lakes around Lake Nguru in the rainy season.<a href="#cite_note-107">[106]</a><a href="#cite_note-108">[107]</a> Other rivers of the northeast include the Ngadda and the Yedseram, both of which flow through the Sambisa swamps, thus forming a river system. The river system of the northeast is also a major river system.<a href="#cite_note-109">[108]</a> In addition, Nigeria has numerous coastal rivers. <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg/220px-Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg/330px-Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg/440px-Lake_Chad_from_Apollo_7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2415" data-file-height="1811" /></a><figcaption>Photo of Lake Chad from <a href="/wiki/Apollo_7" title="Apollo 7">Apollo 7</a>, 1968</figcaption></figure> Over the last million years, <a href="/wiki/Lake_Chad" title="Lake Chad">Lake Chad</a> in the far north-east of Nigeria has dried up several times for a few thousand years and just as often growing to many times its current size. In recent decades its surface area has been reduced considerably, which may also be due to humans taking water from the inlets to irrigate agricultural land. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Vegetation">Vegetation</h3></div> Nigeria is covered by three types of vegetation: forests (where there is significant tree cover), <a href="/wiki/Savannah" class="mw-redirect" title="Savannah">savannahs</a> (insignificant tree cover, with grasses and flowers located between trees), and <a href="/wiki/Montane" class="mw-redirect" title="Montane">montane</a> land (least common and mainly found in the mountains near the Cameroon border). Both the forest zone and the savannah zone are divided into three parts.<a href="#cite_note-gai4-110">[109]</a> Some of the forest zone's most southerly portion, especially around the Niger River and <a href="/wiki/Cross_River_(Nigeria)" title="Cross River (Nigeria)">Cross River</a> deltas, is <a href="/wiki/Central_African_mangroves" title="Central African mangroves">mangrove swamp</a>. North of this is a freshwater swamp, containing different vegetation from the saltwater mangrove swamps, and north of that is a rainforest.<a href="#cite_note-gai4-110">[109]</a> The savannah zone's three categories are divided into <a href="/wiki/Guinean_forest%E2%80%93savanna_mosaic" title="Guinean forest–savanna mosaic">Guinean forest-savanna mosaic</a>, made up of plains of tall grass which are interrupted by trees, the most common across the country; Sudan savannah, with short grasses and short trees; and <a href="/wiki/Sahel" title="Sahel">Sahel</a> savannah patches of grass and sand, found in the northeast.<a href="#cite_note-gai4-110">[109]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Mambilla_Plateau,_Nigeria_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg/220px-The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg/330px-The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg/440px-The_Mambilla_Plateau%2C_Nigeria_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5312" data-file-height="2988" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Mambilla_Plateau" title="Mambilla Plateau">Mambilla Plateau</a> in the North-Eastern region of Nigeria</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Environmental_issues">Environmental issues</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Deforestation_in_Nigeria" title="Deforestation in Nigeria">Deforestation in Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_the_Niger_Delta" title="Environmental issues in the Niger Delta">Environmental issues in the Niger Delta</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Nigerian deforrestation 1981 - 2020" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg/220px-Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="311" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg/330px-Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg/440px-Nigerian-deforrestation-b.jpg 2x" data-file-width="968" data-file-height="1370" /></a><figcaption>Deforestation in Nigeria 1981–2020<a href="#cite_note-111">[110]</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Waste_management" title="Waste management">Waste management</a> including <a href="/wiki/Sewage_treatment" title="Sewage treatment">sewage treatment</a>, the linked processes of <a href="/wiki/Deforestation" title="Deforestation">deforestation</a> and <a href="/wiki/Soil_retrogression_and_degradation" title="Soil retrogression and degradation">soil degradation</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Climate_change" title="Climate change">climate change</a> or <a href="/wiki/Global_warming" class="mw-redirect" title="Global warming">global warming</a> are the major environmental problems in Nigeria. Waste management presents problems in a <a href="/wiki/Megacity" title="Megacity">megacity</a> like Lagos and other major Nigerian cities which are linked with economic development, population growth and the inability of municipal councils to manage the resulting rise in industrial and domestic waste. This waste management problem is also attributable to unsustainable environmental management lifestyles of <a href="/wiki/Kubwa,_Abuja" class="mw-redirect" title="Kubwa, Abuja">Kubwa</a> community in the Federal Capital Territory, where there are habits of indiscriminate disposal of waste, dumping of waste along or into the canals, sewerage systems that are channels for water flows, and the like. Haphazard industrial planning, increased urbanisation, poverty and lack of competence of the municipal government are seen as the major reasons for high levels of waste pollution in major cities of the country. Some of the solutions have been disastrous to the environment, resulting in untreated waste being dumped in places where it can pollute waterways and <a href="/wiki/Groundwater_in_Nigeria" title="Groundwater in Nigeria">groundwater</a>.<a href="#cite_note-112">[111]</a> In 2005, Nigeria had the highest rate of <a href="/wiki/Deforestation" title="Deforestation">deforestation</a> in the world, according to the <a href="/wiki/Food_and_Agriculture_Organization" title="Food and Agriculture Organization">Food and Agriculture Organization</a> of the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a>.<a href="#cite_note-113">[112]</a> That year, 12.2%, the equivalent of 11,089,000 hectares, had been forested in the country. Between 1990 and 2000, Nigeria lost an average of 409,700 hectares of forest every year equal to an average annual deforestation rate of 2.4%. Between 1990 and 2005, in total Nigeria lost 35.7% of its <a href="/wiki/Forest_cover" title="Forest cover">forest cover</a> or around 6,145,000 hectares.<a href="#cite_note-114">[113]</a> Nigeria had a 2019 <a href="/wiki/Forest_Landscape_Integrity_Index" title="Forest Landscape Integrity Index">Forest Landscape Integrity Index</a> mean score of 6.2/10, ranking it 82nd globally out of 172 countries.<a href="#cite_note-FLII-Supplementary-115">[114]</a> In the year 2010, thousands of people were inadvertently <a href="/wiki/Zamfara_State_lead_poisoning_outbreak" title="Zamfara State lead poisoning outbreak">exposed to lead-containing soil</a> from informal <a href="/wiki/Gold_mining" title="Gold mining">gold mining</a> within the northern state of Zamfara. While estimates vary, it is thought that upwards of 400 children died of acute <a href="/wiki/Lead_poisoning" title="Lead poisoning">lead poisoning</a>, making this perhaps the largest lead poisoning fatality outbreak ever encountered.<a href="#cite_note-116">[115]</a> Nigeria's Delta region is one of the most polluted regions in the world due to serious <a href="/wiki/Oil_spill" title="Oil spill">oil spills</a> and other environmental problems caused by its oil industry.<a href="#cite_note-117">[116]</a><a href="#cite_note-118">[117]</a> The heavy contamination of the air, ground and water with toxic pollutants is often used as an example of <a href="/wiki/Ecocide" title="Ecocide">ecocide</a>.<a href="#cite_note-119">[118]</a><a href="#cite_note-120">[119]</a><a href="#cite_note-121">[120]</a><a href="#cite_note-122">[121]</a><a href="#cite_note-123">[122]</a> In additional to the environmental damage it has caused <a href="/wiki/Conflict_in_the_Niger_Delta" title="Conflict in the Niger Delta">conflict in the Delta region</a>. Illegal oil refineries, in which local operators convert stolen crude oil into petrol and diesel, are considered particularly "dirty, dangerous and lucrative".<a href="#cite_note-124">[123]</a> Safety and environmental aspects are usually ignored. Refining petroleum also inevitably produces heavy oil, which is "cracked" into lighter fuel components in regular plants at great technical expense. Illegal refineries do not have these technical possibilities and "dispose" of the heavy oil where it accumulates. The lighter components of crude oil (<a href="/wiki/Methane" title="Methane">methane</a> to <a href="/wiki/Butane" title="Butane">butane</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isobutane" title="Isobutane">isobutane</a>) create a certain risk of explosion, which often leads to disasters at illegal plants.<a href="#cite_note-125">[124]</a> In 2022, Nigeria suffered 125 deaths from explosions at local, illegal refineries.<a href="#cite_note-126">[125]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Nigeria" title="Politics of Nigeria">Politics of Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Political_parties_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Political parties in Nigeria">Political parties in Nigeria</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Government">Government</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg/220px-Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="187" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg/330px-Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg/440px-Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1505" data-file-height="1276" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Nigeria" title="Coat of arms of Nigeria">Coat of arms of Nigeria</a> in current use</figcaption></figure> Nigeria is a <a href="/wiki/Federal_republic" title="Federal republic">federal republic</a> modelled after the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>,<a href="#cite_note-127">[126]</a> with 36 states and capital Abuja as an independent unit. The executive power is exercised by the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President</a>. The president is both <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> and <a href="/wiki/Head_of_government" title="Head of government">head of the federal government</a>; the president is <a href="/wiki/Direct_election" title="Direct election">elected by popular vote</a> to a maximum of two four-year terms.<a href="#cite_note-factbook3-128">[127]</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=State_governors_in_nigeria&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="State governors in nigeria (page does not exist)">State governors</a>, like the president, are elected for four years and may serve a maximum of two terms. The president's power is checked by a <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Nigeria" title="Senate of Nigeria">Senate</a> and a <a href="/wiki/House_of_Representatives_(Nigeria)" title="House of Representatives (Nigeria)">House of Representatives</a>, which are combined in a <a href="/wiki/Bicameralism" title="Bicameralism">bicameral body</a> called the <a href="/wiki/National_Assembly_(Nigeria)" title="National Assembly (Nigeria)">National Assembly</a>. The Senate is a 109-seat body with three members from each state and one from the capital region of Abuja; members are elected by popular vote to four-year terms. The House contains 360 seats, with the number of seats per state determined by population.<a href="#cite_note-factbook3-128">[127]</a> The Nigerian president is elected in a modified two-round system. To be elected in the first round, a candidate must receive a relative majority of the votes and more than 25% of the votes in at least 24 of the 36 states.<a href="#cite_note-129">[128]</a> If no candidate reaches this hurdle, a second round of voting takes place between the leading candidate and the next candidate who received the majority of votes in the highest number of states. By convention, presidential candidates take a running mate (candidate for the vice presidency) who is both ethnically and religiously the opposite of themselves. There is no law prescribing this, yet all presidential candidates since the existence of the Fourth Republic until 2023 adhered to this rule. However, this principle of religious and ethnic diversity in leadership was ignored in the 2023 General Elections, where the candidate for the <a href="/wiki/All_Progressives_Congress" title="All Progressives Congress">All Progressives Congress</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bola_Tinubu" title="Bola Tinubu">Bola Ahmed Tinubu</a>, a Muslim, selected another Muslim, <a href="/wiki/Kashim_Shettima" title="Kashim Shettima">Senator Kashim Shettima</a>, as running mate. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Administrative_divisions">Administrative divisions</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Subdivisions_of_Nigeria" title="Subdivisions of Nigeria">Subdivisions of Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg/310px-Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="237" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg/465px-Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/56/Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg/620px-Political_map_of_Nigeria.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="919" data-file-height="703" /></a><figcaption>Map of Nigeria with administrative divisions</figcaption></figure>Nigeria is divided into <a href="/wiki/States_of_Nigeria" title="States of Nigeria">thirty-six states</a> and one <a href="/wiki/Federal_Capital_Territory,_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria">Federal Capital Territory</a>, which are further sub-divided into 774 <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Nigeria" title="Local government areas of Nigeria">local government areas</a>. In some contexts, the states are aggregated into <a href="/wiki/Geopolitical_zones_of_Nigeria" title="Geopolitical zones of Nigeria">six geopolitical zones</a>: <a href="/wiki/North_West_(Nigeria)" title="North West (Nigeria)">North West</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_East_(Nigeria)" title="North East (Nigeria)">North East</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_Central,_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="North Central, Nigeria">North Central</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_West_(Nigeria)" title="South West (Nigeria)">South West</a>, <a href="/wiki/South_East_(Nigeria)" title="South East (Nigeria)">South East</a>, and <a href="/wiki/South_South" title="South South">South South</a>.<a href="#cite_note-130">[129]</a><a href="#cite_note-131">[130]</a> Nigeria has five cities with a population of over a million (from largest to smallest): <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibadan" title="Ibadan">Ibadan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benin_City" title="Benin City">Benin City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Port_Harcourt" title="Port Harcourt">Port Harcourt</a>. Lagos is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_most_populous_cities_in_Africa" class="mw-redirect" title="List of most populous cities in Africa">largest city in Africa</a>, with a population of over <a href="/wiki/List_of_metropolitan_areas_by_population" class="mw-redirect" title="List of metropolitan areas by population">12 million</a> in its <a href="/wiki/Urban_area" title="Urban area">urban area</a>.<a href="#cite_note-felix2-132">[131]</a> The south of the country in particular is characterised by very strong urbanisation and a relatively large number of cities. According to an estimate from 2015,<a href="#cite_note-133">[132]</a> there are 20 cities in Nigeria with more than 500,000 inhabitants, including ten cities with a population of one million. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Law">Law</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Law_of_Nigeria" title="Law of Nigeria">Law of Nigeria</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria" title="Constitution of Nigeria">Constitution of Nigeria</a> is the supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include <a href="/wiki/English_law" title="English law">English law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Common_law" title="Common law">common law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Customary_law" title="Customary law">customary law</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sharia" title="Sharia">Sharia law</a>: <ul><li>English law in Nigeria consists of the collection of British laws from colonial times.</li> <li>Common law is the collection of authoritative judicial decisions in the field of civil law (so-called precedents) that have been handed down in the country concerned - in this case Nigeria. (This system is mainly found in Anglo-Saxon countries; in continental Europe, on the other hand, codified and, as far as possible, abstracted civil law predominates, as in the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Code" title="Napoleonic Code">Napoleonic Code</a> in France).<a href="#cite_note-134">[133]</a></li> <li>Customary law is derived from indigenous traditional norms and practices, including the dispute resolution meetings of pre-colonial Yoruba land secret societies and the <a href="/wiki/Egbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Egbo">Èkpè</a> and Okónkò of <a href="/wiki/Igboland" title="Igboland">Igboland</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ibibio_people" title="Ibibio people">Ibibioland</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[134]</a></li> <li>Sharia law (also known as Islamic Law) used to be used only in <a href="/wiki/Northern_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Northern Nigeria">Northern Nigeria</a>, where <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> is the predominant <a href="/wiki/Religion" title="Religion">religion</a>. It is also being used in <a href="/wiki/Lagos_State" title="Lagos State">Lagos State</a>, Oyo State, Kwara State, Ogun State, and Osun State by Muslims. Muslim penal codes are not the same in every state and they differentiate in punishment and offences according to religious affiliation (for example, alcohol consumption and distribution).</li></ul> The country has a <a href="/wiki/Judicial_branch" class="mw-redirect" title="Judicial branch">judicial branch</a>, the highest court of which is the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_Nigeria" title="Supreme Court of Nigeria">Supreme Court of Nigeria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-136">[135]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Nigeria" title="Foreign relations of Nigeria">Foreign relations of Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:MinForeignAffairs.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/MinForeignAffairs.jpg/220px-MinForeignAffairs.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/MinForeignAffairs.jpg/330px-MinForeignAffairs.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/MinForeignAffairs.jpg/440px-MinForeignAffairs.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2688" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption>The Ministry of <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Affairs" title="Foreign Affairs">Foreign Affairs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abuja" title="Abuja">Abuja</a></figcaption></figure> Upon gaining independence in 1960, Nigeria made African unity the centrepiece of its foreign policy.<a href="#cite_note-137">[136]</a> One exception to the African focus was Nigeria's close relationship with Israel throughout the 1960s. Israel sponsored and oversaw the construction of Nigeria's parliament buildings.<a href="#cite_note-138">[137]</a> Nigeria's foreign policy was put to the test in the 1970s after the country emerged united from its civil war. It supported movements against white minority governments in <a href="/wiki/Southern_Africa" title="Southern Africa">Southern Africa</a>. Nigeria backed the <a href="/wiki/African_National_Congress" title="African National Congress">African National Congress</a> by taking a committed tough line about the South African government. Nigeria was a founding member of the <a href="/wiki/Organisation_of_African_Unity" title="Organisation of African Unity">Organisation for African Unity</a> (now the <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a>) and had tremendous influence in West Africa and Africa on the whole. Nigeria founded regional cooperative efforts in West Africa, functioning as the standard-bearer for the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Community of West African States">Economic Community of West African States</a> (ECOWAS) and <a href="/wiki/ECOMOG" class="mw-redirect" title="ECOMOG">ECOMOG</a> (especially during the Liberia and Sierra Leone civil wars). With this Africa-centred stance, Nigeria readily <a href="/wiki/Congo_Crisis" title="Congo Crisis">sent troops to the Congo</a> at the behest of the United Nations shortly after independence (and has maintained membership since that time). Nigeria also supported several Pan-African and pro-self-government causes in the 1970s, including garnering support for <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angola</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Popular_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Angola" class="mw-redirect" title="Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola">MPLA</a>, <a href="/wiki/SWAPO" title="SWAPO">SWAPO</a> in Namibia, and aiding opposition to the minority governments of <a href="/wiki/Mozambican_War_of_Independence" title="Mozambican War of Independence">Portuguese Mozambique</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Rhodesian_Bush_War" title="Rhodesian Bush War">Rhodesia</a>. Nigeria retains membership in the <a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a>. In late November 2006, it organized an Africa-South America Summit in <a href="/wiki/Abuja" title="Abuja">Abuja</a> to promote what some attendees termed "South-South" linkages on a variety of fronts.<a href="#cite_note-139">[138]</a> Nigeria is also a member of the <a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court" title="International Criminal Court">International Criminal Court</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth of Nations</a>. It was temporarily expelled from the latter in 1995 when ruled by the <a href="/wiki/Sani_Abacha" title="Sani Abacha">Abacha regime</a>. Nigeria has remained a key player in the <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry" title="Petroleum industry">international oil industry</a> since the 1970s and maintains membership in <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>, which it joined in July 1971. Its <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Nigeria" title="Petroleum industry in Nigeria">status as a major petroleum producer</a> figures prominently in its sometimes volatile international relations with <a href="/wiki/Developed_country" title="Developed country">developed countries</a>, notably the United States, and with developing countries.<a href="#cite_note-140">[139]</a> Since 2000, <a href="/wiki/China%E2%80%93Nigeria_relations" title="China–Nigeria relations">Chinese–Nigerian trade relations</a> have risen exponentially. There has been an increase in total trade of over 10.3 billion dollars between the two nations from 2000 to 2016.<a href="#cite_note-141">[140]</a> However, the structure of the Chinese–Nigerian trade relationship has become a major political issue for the Nigerian state. Chinese exports account for around 80 per cent of total bilateral trade volumes.<a href="#cite_note-142">[141]</a> This has resulted in a serious <a href="/wiki/Balance_of_trade" title="Balance of trade">trade imbalance</a>, with Nigeria importing ten times more than it exports to China.<a href="#cite_note-143">[142]</a> Subsequently, Nigeria's economy is becoming over-reliant on cheap imports to sustain itself, resulting in a clear decline in Nigerian industry under such arrangements.<a href="#cite_note-144">[143]</a> Continuing its Africa-centred foreign policy, Nigeria introduced the idea of a <a href="/wiki/Currency_union" title="Currency union">single currency</a> for West Africa known as the <a href="/wiki/Eco_(currency)" title="Eco (currency)">Eco</a> under the presumption that it would be led by the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_naira" title="Nigerian naira">naira</a>. But on 21 December 2019, <a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Ivory_Coast" title="List of heads of state of Ivory Coast">Ivorian President</a> <a href="/wiki/Alassane_Ouattara" title="Alassane Ouattara">Alassane Ouattara</a>, <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron" title="Emmanuel Macron">Emmanuel Macron</a>, and multiple other <a href="/wiki/Economic_Community_of_West_African_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Economic Community of West African States">UEMOA</a> states announced that they would merely rename the <a href="/wiki/CFA_franc" title="CFA franc">CFA franc</a> instead of replacing the currency as originally intended. As of 2020, the Eco currency has been delayed to 2025.<a href="#cite_note-145">[144]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Military">Military</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Armed_Forces" title="Nigerian Armed Forces">Nigerian Armed Forces</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg/220px-ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg/330px-ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a9/ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg/440px-ZSU-23-4_Shilka_01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2248" data-file-height="1426" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Army" title="Nigerian Army">Nigerian Army</a> self-propelled anti-aircraft gun</figcaption></figure> The <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Armed_Forces" title="Nigerian Armed Forces">Nigerian Armed Forces</a> are the <a href="/wiki/Military" title="Military">combined military forces</a> of Nigeria. It consists of three uniformed service branches: the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Army" title="Nigerian Army">Nigerian Army</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Navy" title="Nigerian Navy">Nigerian Navy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Air_Force" title="Nigerian Air Force">Nigerian Air Force</a>. The <a href="/wiki/President_of_Nigeria" title="President of Nigeria">President of Nigeria</a> functions as the <a href="/wiki/Commander-in-chief" title="Commander-in-chief">commander-in-chief</a> of the armed forces, exercising his <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Nigeria" title="Constitution of Nigeria">constitutional authority</a> through the Ministry of Defence, which is responsible for the management of the military and its personnel. The operational head of the AFN is the <a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Defence_Staff_(Nigeria)" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief of the Defence Staff (Nigeria)">Chief of the Defence Staff</a>, who is subordinate to the <a href="/wiki/Defence_Minister_of_Nigeria" title="Defence Minister of Nigeria">Nigerian Defence Minister</a>. With a force of more than 223,000 active personnel, the Nigerian military is one of the largest uniformed combat services in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-146">[145]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg/220px-Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg/330px-Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f0/Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg/440px-Nigerian_Air_Force_Mil_Mi-24V_Iwelumo-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="799" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Air_Force" title="Nigerian Air Force">Nigerian Air Force</a> <a href="/wiki/Mi-24" class="mw-redirect" title="Mi-24">Mi-24</a> attack helicopter</figcaption></figure> Nigeria has 143,000 troops in the armed forces (army 100,000, navy 25,000, air force 18,000) and another 80,000 personnel for "gendarmerie & paramilitary" in 2020, according to the <a href="/wiki/International_Institute_for_Strategic_Studies" title="International Institute for Strategic Studies">International Institute for Strategic Studies</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:8-147">[146]</a> Nigeria spent just under 0.4 per cent of its economic output, or US$1.6 billion, on its armed forces in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-148">[147]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[148]</a> For 2022, US$2.26 billion has been budgeted for the Nigerian armed forces, which is just over a third of <a href="/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Defence_budget" class="mw-redirect" title="Defence budget">defence budget</a> (US$5.99 billion).<a href="#cite_note-:8-147">[146]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Communal_conflicts">Communal conflicts</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Herder%E2%80%93farmer_conflicts_in_Nigeria" title="Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria">Communal conflicts in Nigeria</a>, <a href="/wiki/Religious_violence_in_Nigeria" title="Religious violence in Nigeria">Religious violence in Nigeria</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_bandit_conflict" title="Nigerian bandit conflict">Nigerian bandit conflict</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg/220px-BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="186" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg/330px-BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg/440px-BokoHaram_deaths_by_state.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2333" data-file-height="1971" /></a><figcaption>Attacks by Boko Haram, 2011 to October 2022. Each figure represents 1,000 deaths.<a href="#cite_note-:5-150">[149]</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Boko_Haram" title="Boko Haram">Boko Haram</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_bandit_conflict" title="Nigerian bandit conflict">bandit conflict</a> have been responsible for numerous serious attacks with thousands of casualties since mid-2010. Since then, according to the Council on Foreign Relations' Nigeria Security Tracker, over 41,600 lives have been lost to this conflict (as of October 2022).<a href="#cite_note-:5-150">[149]</a> The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR counts about 1.8 million internally displaced persons and about 200,000 Nigerian refugees in neighbouring countries. The Boko Haram-affected states agreed in February 2015 to establish an 8,700-strong Multinational Joint Task Force to jointly fight Boko Haram. By October 2015, Boko Haram had been driven out of all the cities it controlled and almost all the counties in northeastern Nigeria. In 2016, Boko Haram split and in 2022, 40,000 fighters surrendered.<a href="#cite_note-151">[150]</a> The splinter group <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State_%E2%80%93_West_Africa_Province" title="Islamic State – West Africa Province">ISWAP</a> (Islamic State in West Africa) remains active. The fight against Boko Haram, other sectarians and criminals has been accompanied by increasing police attacks. The <a href="/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations" title="Council on Foreign Relations">Council on Foreign Relations</a>' Nigeria Security Tracker counted 1,086 deaths from Boko Haram attacks and 290 deaths from police violence in the first 12 months of its establishment in May 2011. In the 12 months after October 2021, 2,193 people died from police violence and 498 from Boko Haram and ISWAP,<a href="#cite_note-:5-150">[149]</a> according to the NST. The Nigerian police are notorious for <a href="/wiki/Vigilantism" title="Vigilantism">vigilante justice</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:5-150">[149]</a> The Niger Delta saw intense <a href="/wiki/2016_Niger_Delta_conflict" title="2016 Niger Delta conflict">attacks on oil infrastructure in 2016</a> by militant groups such as the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), the Niger Delta People's Volunteer Force (NDPVF), the Ijaw National Congress (INC) and the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF). In response, the new Buhari government pursued a dual strategy of repression and negotiation. In late 2016, the Nigerian federal government resorted to the gambit of offering the militant groups a 4.5 billion naira (US$144 million) contract to guard oil infrastructure. Most accepted. The contract was <a href="/wiki/Tompolo#Arrest_warrant" title="Tompolo">renewed in August 2022</a>, but led to fierce disputes among the above-mentioned groups over the distribution of the funds. Representatives speak of "war"<a href="#cite_note-:7-152">[151]</a> - against each other. The high propensity for violence and the pettiness of the leaders, as well as the complete absence of social and environmental arguments in this dispute<a href="#cite_note-:7-152">[151]</a> give rise to fears that the militant groups, despite their lofty names, have discarded responsibility for their region and ethnic groups and have moved into the realm of protection rackets and self-enrichment. In any case, the pipelines in the Niger Delta are not very effectively "guarded" - the pollution of the Niger Delta with stolen crude oil and <a href="#Oil_spills">illegally produced heavy fuel oil</a> continued unhindered after 2016.<a href="#cite_note-153">[152]</a> In central Nigeria, <a href="/wiki/Herder%E2%80%93farmer_conflicts_in_Nigeria" title="Herder–farmer conflicts in Nigeria">conflicts between Muslim Hausa-Fulani herders and indigenous Christian farmers</a> flared up again, especially in Kaduna, Plateau, Taraba and Benue states. In individual cases, these clashes have claimed several hundred lives. Conflict over land and resources is increasing due to the ongoing desertification in northern Nigeria, population growth and the generally tense economic situation. In June 2022, a massacre took place in the St. Francis Xavier Church, in Owo. The Government blamed ISWAP for the murder of over 50 parishioners, but locals suspect Fulani herdsmen's involvement.<a href="#cite_note-154">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria" title="Economy of Nigeria">Economy of Nigeria</a></div> Nigeria's economy is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of African countries by GDP (nominal)">fourth largest in Africa</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)" title="List of countries by GDP (nominal)">31st-largest in the world</a> by nominal GDP, and <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">30th-largest</a> by <a href="/wiki/Purchasing_power_parity" title="Purchasing power parity">PPP</a>. <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of countries by GDP (PPP)">GDP (PPP)</a> per capita is US$9,148<a href="#cite_note-155">[154]</a> (as of 2022), which is less than South Africa, Egypt and Morocco, but slightly higher than Ghana and Ivory Coast. Nigeria is a leader in Africa as an energy power, <a href="/wiki/Financial_market" title="Financial market">financial market</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Medication" title="Medication">pharmaceuticals</a> and in the <a href="/wiki/Entertainment" title="Entertainment">entertainment industry</a>. After petroleum, the largest source of foreign exchange earnings for Nigeria are <a href="/wiki/Remittance" title="Remittance">remittances</a> sent home by Nigerians living abroad.<a href="#cite_note-tribune.com.ng2-156">[155]</a> Nigeria has a <a href="/wiki/Banking_in_Nigeria" title="Banking in Nigeria">highly developed financial services sector</a>, with a mix of local and international banks, asset management companies, brokerage houses, insurance companies and brokers, private equity funds and investment banks.<a href="#cite_note-157">[156]</a> Nigeria has a lower-middle-income economy<a href="#cite_note-158">[157]</a> with an abundant supply of natural resources. Its wide array of underexploited mineral resources include coal, <a href="/wiki/Bauxite" title="Bauxite">bauxite</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tantalite" title="Tantalite">tantalite</a>, gold, <a href="/wiki/Tin" title="Tin">tin</a>, iron ore, <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Niobium" title="Niobium">niobium</a>, lead and <a href="/wiki/Zinc" title="Zinc">zinc</a>.<a href="#cite_note-159">[158]</a> Despite huge deposits of these natural resources, the mining industry in Nigeria is still in its infancy. Before 1999, economic development has been hindered by years of military rule, corruption, and mismanagement. The restoration of democracy and subsequent economic reforms have supported economic potential. After 2015, the Nigerian economy was able to diversify somewhat. Apart from oil and gas, Nigeria exports <a href="/wiki/Fertilizer" title="Fertilizer">fertilisers</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cement" title="Cement">cement</a>/cement board, moulded <a href="/wiki/Polypropylene" title="Polypropylene">polypropylene</a> (plastic) products, <a href="/wiki/Personal_care" class="mw-redirect" title="Personal care">personal care products</a>, paint, <a href="/wiki/Malt_drink" title="Malt drink">malt beverages</a> and armoured vehicles. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Agriculture">Agriculture</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Agriculture_in_Nigeria" title="Agriculture in Nigeria">Agriculture in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg/220px-Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg/330px-Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg/440px-Palm_nuts_put_out_to_dry.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Nigerian palm nuts put out to dry</figcaption></figure> In 2021, about 23.4% of Nigeria's GDP is contributed by agriculture, forestry and fishing combined.<a href="#cite_note-160">[159]</a> Nigeria is the world's largest producer of <a href="/wiki/Cassava_production_in_Nigeria" title="Cassava production in Nigeria">cassava</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-161">[160]</a> Further major crops include <a href="/wiki/Maize" title="Maize">maize</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rice" title="Rice">rice</a>, <a href="/wiki/Millet" title="Millet">millet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yam_(vegetable)" title="Yam (vegetable)">yam beans</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sorghum_bicolor" class="mw-redirect" title="Sorghum bicolor">guinea corn</a> (sorghum).<a href="#cite_note-162">[161]</a> <a href="/wiki/Cocoa_bean" title="Cocoa bean">Cocoa</a> is the principal agricultural export, and one of the country's most significant non-petroleum products.<a href="#cite_note-163">[162]</a><a href="#cite_note-164">[163]</a> Nigeria is also one of the world's top twenty exporters of <a href="/wiki/Natural_rubber" title="Natural rubber">natural rubber</a>, generating $20.9 million in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-165">[164]</a> Before the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Civil_War" title="Nigerian Civil War">Nigerian Civil War</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Oil_boom" title="Oil boom">oil boom</a>, Nigeria was self-sufficient in food.<a href="#cite_note-166">[165]</a><a href="#cite_note-:11-167">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-168">[167]</a> Agriculture used to be the principal foreign exchange earner of Nigeria.<a href="#cite_note-169">[168]</a> Agriculture has failed to keep pace with Nigeria's rapid population growth, and Nigeria now relies upon food imports to sustain itself.<a href="#cite_note-:11-167">[166]</a><a href="#cite_note-170">[169]</a> It spends US$6.7 billion yearly for food imports, four times more than revenues from food export.<a href="#cite_note-:2-161">[160]</a> The Nigerian government promoted the use of inorganic fertilizers in the 1970s.<a href="#cite_note-pasquini2-171">[170]</a> Nigeria's rice production increased by 10% from 2017/18 to 2021/22 to 5 million tonnes a year,<a href="#cite_note-172">[171]</a> but could hardly keep up with the increased demand. Rice imports therefore remained constant at 2 million tonnes per year. In August 2019, Nigeria closed its border with Benin and other neighbouring countries to stop rice smuggling into the country as part of efforts to boost local production.<a href="#cite_note-173">[172]</a> Until now, Nigeria exported unhusked rice but had to import husked rice, the country's staple food. - The <a href="/wiki/Imota_rice_mill" title="Imota rice mill">rice mill in Imota</a>, near Lagos, is intended to handle the corresponding processing at home, improve the balance of trade and the labour market, and save unnecessary costs for transport and middlemen. When fully operational at the end of 2022, the plant, the largest south of the Sahara, is expected to employ 250,000 people and produce 2.5 million 50-kg bags of rice annually.<a href="#cite_note-174">[173]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oil_and_natural_gas">Oil and natural gas</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Nigeria" title="Petroleum industry in Nigeria">Petroleum industry in Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oil_theft_in_Nigeria" title="Oil theft in Nigeria">Oil theft in Nigeria</a></div> Nigeria is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production" title="List of countries by oil production">15th largest producer of petroleum in the world</a>, the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_exports" title="List of countries by oil exports">6th largest exporter</a>, and has the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves" title="List of countries by proven oil reserves">9th largest proven reserves</a>. Petroleum plays a large role in the Nigerian economy and politics, accounting for about 80% of government earnings. Nigeria also has the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural_gas_proven_reserves" title="List of countries by natural gas proven reserves">9th largest proven natural gas reserves</a> estimated by <a href="/wiki/OPEC" title="OPEC">OPEC</a>; the government's value of its about 206.53 trillion cubic feet has been valued at $803.4 trillion.<a href="#cite_note-175">[174]</a> Natural gas is seen as having the potential to unlock an <a href="/wiki/Economic_miracle" title="Economic miracle">economic miracle</a> on the Niger River.<a href="#cite_note-176">[175]</a> Nigeria each year loses to <a href="/wiki/Gas_flare" title="Gas flare">gas flaring</a> an estimate of US$2.5 billion,<a href="#cite_note-177">[176]</a> and over 120,000 barrels of oil per day to <a href="/wiki/Oil_theft_in_Nigeria" title="Oil theft in Nigeria">crude theft</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Niger_Delta" title="Niger Delta">Niger Delta</a>, its main oil-producing region.<a href="#cite_note-178">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-179">[178]</a> This has led to <a href="/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Gulf_of_Guinea" title="Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea">piracy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Conflict_in_the_Niger_Delta" title="Conflict in the Niger Delta">conflict</a> for control in the region and has led to disruptions in production preventing the country from meeting its OPEC quota and exporting petroleum at full capability.<a href="#cite_note-180">[179]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg/220px-Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="225" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg/330px-Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg/440px-Nigerdelta_NASA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="624" data-file-height="639" /></a><figcaption>Overflight photo of the creeks of the Niger Delta</figcaption></figure> Nigeria has a total of 159 <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_reservoir" title="Petroleum reservoir">oil fields</a> and 1,481 <a href="/wiki/Oil_well" title="Oil well">wells</a> in operation according to the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Petroleum_Resources" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Petroleum Resources">Department of Petroleum Resources</a>.<a href="#cite_note-NDES2-181">[180]</a> The most productive region of the nation is the coastal <a href="/wiki/Niger_Delta_Basin_(geology)" title="Niger Delta Basin (geology)">Niger Delta Basin</a> in the Niger Delta or "south-south" region which encompasses 78 of the 159 oil fields. Most of Nigeria's oil fields are small and scattered, and as of 1990, these small fields accounted for 62.1% of all Nigerian production. This contrasts with the sixteen largest fields which produced 37.9% of Nigeria's petroleum at that time.<a href="#cite_note-politicaleconomy2-182">[181]</a> Petrol was Nigeria's main import commodity until 2021, accounting for 24% of import volume.<a href="#cite_note-183">[182]</a> The Niger Delta Nembe Creek oil field was discovered in 1973 and produces from the middle <a href="/wiki/Miocene" title="Miocene">Miocene</a> <a href="/wiki/River_delta" title="River delta">deltaic</a> <a href="/wiki/Sandstone" title="Sandstone">sandstone</a>-<a href="/wiki/Shale" title="Shale">shale</a> in an <a href="/wiki/Anticline" title="Anticline">anticline</a> <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_trap" title="Petroleum trap">structural trap</a> at a depth of 2 to 4 kilometres (7,000 to 13,000 feet).<a href="#cite_note-184">[183]</a> In June 2013, Shell announced a strategic review of its operations in Nigeria, hinting that assets could be divested. While many international oil companies have operated there for decades, by 2014 most were making moves to divest their interests, citing a range of issues including oil theft. In August 2014, Shell said it was finalising its interests in four Nigerian oil fields.<a href="#cite_note-ShellNigeria2-185">[184]</a> The supply of natural gas to Europe, threatened by the <a href="/wiki/Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine" title="Russian invasion of Ukraine">Russian invasion of Ukraine</a>, is pushing projects to transport Nigerian natural gas via pipelines to Morocco or Algeria.<a href="#cite_note-186">[185]</a><a href="#cite_note-187">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-188">[187]</a> As of May 2022, however, there are no results on this yet. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Energy">Energy</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Nigeria" title="Energy in Nigeria">Energy in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg/220px-ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="142" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg/330px-ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg/440px-ASC_Leiden_-_Rietveld_Collection_-_Nigeria_1970_-_1973_-_01_-_083_Kainji_Dam._The_water_flows_from_four_openings.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6716" data-file-height="4347" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Kainji_Dam" title="Kainji Dam">Kainji Dam</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Niger_River" title="Niger River">Niger River</a>, built in the 1960s</figcaption></figure> Nigeria's energy consumption is much more than its generation capacity. Most of the energy comes from traditional fossil fuels, which account for 73% of total primary production. The rest is from hydropower (27%). Since independence, Nigeria has tried to develop a domestic nuclear industry for energy. Nigeria opened 2004 a Chinese-origin research reactor at <a href="/wiki/Ahmadu_Bello_University" title="Ahmadu Bello University">Ahmadu Bello University</a> and has sought the support of the <a href="/wiki/International_Atomic_Energy_Agency" title="International Atomic Energy Agency">International Atomic Energy Agency</a> to develop plans for up to 4,000 MWe of nuclear capacity by 2027 according to the National Program for the Deployment of Nuclear Power for Generation of Electricity. In 2007, President <a href="/wiki/Umaru_Musa_Yar%27Adua" title="Umaru Musa Yar'Adua">Umaru Yar'Adua</a> urged the country to embrace nuclear power to meet its growing energy needs. In 2017, Nigeria signed the UN <a href="/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Prohibition_of_Nuclear_Weapons" title="Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons">Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons</a>.<a href="#cite_note-189">[188]</a> In April 2015, Nigeria began talks with Russia's state-owned <a href="/wiki/Rosatom" title="Rosatom">Rosatom</a> to collaborate on the design, construction and operation of four nuclear power plants by 2035, the first of which will be in operation by 2025. In June 2015, Nigeria selected two sites for the planned construction of the nuclear plants. Neither the Nigerian government nor Rosatom would disclose the specific locations of the sites, but it is believed that the nuclear plants will be sited in <a href="/wiki/Akwa_Ibom_State" title="Akwa Ibom State">Akwa Ibom State</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kogi_State" title="Kogi State">Kogi State</a>. The sites are planned to house two plants each. In 2017 agreements were signed for the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Itu_nuclear_power_plant" title="Itu nuclear power plant">Itu nuclear power plant</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Electricity">Electricity</h4></div> According to the survey, 94% of Nigerians are connected to the national grid, but only 57% have their electricity consumption recorded by an electricity meter.<a href="#cite_note-:12-190">[189]</a> Only 1% of Nigerians surveyed reported having electricity 24 hours a day. 68% have electricity 1 to 9 hours a day, according to the NIO. Two-thirds of Nigerians, or 66%, pay up to 10,000 Naira (US$13) a month for electricity, which is almost 3% of the average income in Nigeria.<a href="#cite_note-:12-190">[189]</a> Over two-thirds of respondents, or 67%, were willing to pay more for uninterrupted electricity supply. Power generators are owned by 21% of Nigerians, while 14% use solar energy.<a href="#cite_note-:12-190">[189]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Manufacturing_and_technology">Manufacturing and technology</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Automotive_industry_in_Nigeria" title="Automotive industry in Nigeria">Automotive industry in Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_Nigeria" title="Pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria">Pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg/220px-Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg/330px-Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg/440px-Nigeria_EduSat-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_EduSat-1" title="Nigeria EduSat-1">Nigeria EduSat-1</a>, the first satellite built by Nigeria by the <a href="/wiki/Federal_University_of_Technology_Akure" title="Federal University of Technology Akure">Federal University of Technology Akure</a></figcaption></figure> Nigeria has a manufacturing industry that includes leather and textiles (centred in <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abeokuta" title="Abeokuta">Abeokuta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Onitsha" title="Onitsha">Onitsha</a>, and Lagos), plastics and processed food. <a href="/wiki/Ogun_State" title="Ogun State">Ogun</a> is considered to be Nigeria's current industrial hub, as most factories are located in Ogun and more companies are moving there, followed by Lagos.<a href="#cite_note-191">[190]</a><a href="#cite_note-192">[191]</a><a href="#cite_note-193">[192]</a> The city of <a href="/wiki/Aba,_Abia" class="mw-redirect" title="Aba, Abia">Aba</a> in the south-eastern part of the country is well known for handicrafts and shoes, known as "Aba made".<a href="#cite_note-Naijalitz-194">[193]</a> Nigeria has a market of 720,000 cars per year, but less than 20% of these are produced domestically.<a href="#cite_note-:1-195">[194]</a> In 2016, Nigeria was the <a href="/wiki/Cement_production_by_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Cement production by country">leading cement producer</a> south of the Sahara, ahead of South Africa.<a href="#cite_note-196">[195]</a> <a href="/wiki/Aliko_Dangote" title="Aliko Dangote">Aliko Dangote</a>, Nigeria's richest inhabitant, based his wealth on cement production, as well as agricultural commodities.<a href="#cite_note-197">[196]</a> According to its own information, the <a href="/wiki/Ajaokuta_Steel_Mill" title="Ajaokuta Steel Mill">Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited</a> produces 1.3 million tonnes of <a href="/wiki/Steel" title="Steel">steel</a> per year.<a href="#cite_note-198">[197]</a> This would be equivalent to one-sixth of the United Kingdom's steel production in 2021.<a href="#cite_note-199">[198]</a> However, steel plants in <a href="/wiki/Katsina" title="Katsina">Katsina</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jos" title="Jos">Jos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Osogbo" title="Osogbo">Osogbo</a> no longer appear to be active.<a href="#cite_note-200">[199]</a> In June 2019, <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_EduSat-1" title="Nigeria EduSat-1">Nigeria EduSat-1</a> was deployed from the <a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a>. It is the first satellite that was built in Nigeria, which followed <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_weather_and_communications_satellites" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian weather and communications satellites">many other Nigerian satellites</a> that were built by other countries.<a href="#cite_note-201">[b]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-202">[200]</a> In 2021, Nigeria hosts about 60 percent of the pharmaceutical production capacity in Africa,<a href="#cite_note-203">[201]</a> the larger pharmaceutical companies are located in <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>.<a href="#cite_note-204">[202]</a> The pharmaceutical producer with the most employees in Nigeria is <a href="/w/index.php?title=Emzor_Pharmaceutical_Industries&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries (page does not exist)">Emzor Pharmaceutical Industries</a> Ltd.<a href="#cite_note-205">[203]</a> Nigeria has a few electronic manufacturers like <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zinox&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zinox (page does not exist)">Zinox</a>, the first branded Nigerian computer, and manufacturers of electronic gadgets such as tablet PCs.<a href="#cite_note-206">[204]</a> As of January 2022, Nigeria is the host to 5 out of the 7 <a href="/wiki/Unicorn_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Unicorn (company)">unicorn companies</a> in Africa.<a href="#cite_note-207">[205]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Internet_and_telecommunications">Internet and telecommunications</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Nigeria" title="Telecommunications in Nigeria">Telecommunications in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg/220px-Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg/330px-Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg/440px-Wikidata_for_Libraries_and_Librarians_in_Nigeria_69.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6000" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Nigerian librarians editing the <a href="/wiki/Wikidata" title="Wikidata">Wikidata</a> database</figcaption></figure> The Nigerian telecommunications market is one of the fastest-growing in the world, with major emerging market operators (like <a href="/wiki/MTN_Group" title="MTN Group">MTN</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=9mobile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="9mobile (page does not exist)">9mobile</a>, <a href="/wiki/Airtel" class="mw-redirect" title="Airtel">Airtel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Globacom" class="mw-redirect" title="Globacom">Globacom</a>) basing their largest and most profitable centres in the country.<a href="#cite_note-208">[206]</a> Nigeria's ICT sector has experienced a lot of growth, representing 10% of the nation's GDP in 2018 as compared to just 1% in 2001.<a href="#cite_note-209">[207]</a> Lagos is regarded as one of the largest technology hubs in Africa with its thriving tech ecosystem.<a href="#cite_note-210">[208]</a> According to a survey by the <a href="/wiki/GSM_Association" class="mw-redirect" title="GSM Association">GSM Association</a>, 92% of adult Nigerian men and 88% of women owned a mobile phone.<a href="#cite_note-211">[209]</a> Using various measures including but not limited to illegal arrest, taking down of websites, passport seizures, and restricted access to bank accounts, the <a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Nigeria#Internet_censorship_and_surveillance" title="Telecommunications in Nigeria">Nigerian government is punishing citizens for expressing themselves on the internet</a> and working to stifle internet freedom.<a href="#cite_note-212">[210]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tourism">Tourism</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Nigeria" title="Tourism in Nigeria">Tourism in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg/220px-%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg/330px-%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg/440px-%C3%92w%C3%BA_Waterfalls.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1280" data-file-height="960" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Owu_waterfalls" class="mw-redirect" title="Owu waterfalls">Owu waterfalls</a>, visited by Nigerian <a href="/wiki/Undergraduate_education" title="Undergraduate education">undergraduates</a></figcaption></figure> Tourism in Nigeria centres largely on events, because of the country's ample amount of ethnic groups, but also includes rain forests, savannahs, waterfalls, and other natural attractions.<a href="#cite_note-suntra2-213">[211]</a> Abuja is home to several parks and green areas. The largest, <a href="/wiki/Millennium_Park_(Abuja)" title="Millennium Park (Abuja)">Millennium Park</a>, was designed by architect <a href="/wiki/Manfredi_Nicoletti" title="Manfredi Nicoletti">Manfredi Nicoletti</a> and officially opened in December 2003. After the re-modernization project achieved by the administration of Governor Raji Babatunde Fashola, Lagos is gradually becoming a major tourist destination. Lagos is currently taking steps to become a <a href="/wiki/Global_city" title="Global city">global city</a>. The 2009 Eyo carnival (a yearly festival originating from <a href="/wiki/Iperu,_Ogun" class="mw-redirect" title="Iperu, Ogun">Iperu Remo</a>, Ogun State) was a step toward world city status. Currently, Lagos is primarily known as a business-oriented and fast-paced community.<a href="#cite_note-METRO2-214">[212]</a> Lagos has become an important location for African and black cultural identity.<a href="#cite_note-215">[213]</a> Lagos has sandy beaches by the Atlantic Ocean, including <a href="/wiki/Elegushi_Beach" title="Elegushi Beach">Elegushi Beach</a> and Alpha Beach. Lagos also has many private beach resorts including Inagbe Grand Beach Resort and several others in the outskirts. Lagos has a variety of hotels ranging from three-star to five-star hotels, with a mixture of local hotels such as <a href="/wiki/Eko_Hotels_and_Suites" title="Eko Hotels and Suites">Eko Hotels and Suites</a>, <a href="/wiki/Federal_Palace_Hotel" title="Federal Palace Hotel">Federal Palace Hotel</a> and franchises of multinational chains such as <a href="/wiki/InterContinental" title="InterContinental">Intercontinental Hotel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sheraton_Hotels_and_Resorts" title="Sheraton Hotels and Resorts">Sheraton</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Four_Points_by_Sheraton" title="Four Points by Sheraton">Four Points by Sheraton</a>. Other places of interest include the <a href="/wiki/Tafawa_Balewa_Square" title="Tafawa Balewa Square">Tafawa Balewa Square</a>, Festac town, The <a href="/wiki/Nike_Art_Gallery" title="Nike Art Gallery">Nike Art Gallery</a>, <a href="/wiki/Freedom_Park_(Lagos)" title="Freedom Park (Lagos)">Freedom Park</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Cathedral_Church_of_Christ,_Lagos" title="Cathedral Church of Christ, Lagos">Cathedral Church of Christ</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Transport">Transport</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Nigeria" title="Transport in Nigeria">Transport in Nigeria</a></div> Due to Nigeria's location in the centre of West Africa, <a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Nigeria" title="Transport in Nigeria">transport plays a major role in the national service sector</a>. Government investments have seen an increase in extensive road repairs and new construction has been carried out gradually as states in particular spend their share of increased government allocations. Representative of these improvements is the <a href="/wiki/Second_Niger_bridge" title="Second Niger bridge">Second Niger Bridge</a> near Onitsha, which was largely completed in 2022.<a href="#cite_note-216">[214]</a> A 2017 World Bank report on logistics hubs in Africa placed the country in fourth place, behind Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Sao Tome,<a href="#cite_note-217">[215]</a> but in 2021, Nigeria joined the World Logistics Passport, a private sector group working to increase the effiency of global trade.<a href="#cite_note-218">[216]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Roads">Roads</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG/220px-Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG/330px-Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG/440px-Map_of_Trans-African_Highways.PNG 2x" data-file-width="832" data-file-height="832" /></a><figcaption></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg/220px-Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg/330px-Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg/440px-Aerial-shot-of-makoko-community-in-lagos-2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2250" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Third_Mainland_Bridge" title="Third Mainland Bridge">Third Mainland bridge</a> across the <a href="/wiki/Lagos_Lagoon" title="Lagos Lagoon">Lagos lagoon</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Roads_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Roads in Nigeria">Roads in Nigeria</a></div> Four trans-African automobile routes pass through Nigeria: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/File:Schild_TAH8.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Schild_TAH8.svg/20px-Schild_TAH8.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Schild_TAH8.svg/30px-Schild_TAH8.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Schild_TAH8.svg/40px-Schild_TAH8.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="105" data-file-height="105" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Lagos-Mombasa_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Lagos-Mombasa Highway">Lagos-Mombasa Highway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Schild_TAH2.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Schild_TAH2.svg/20px-Schild_TAH2.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Schild_TAH2.svg/30px-Schild_TAH2.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Schild_TAH2.svg/40px-Schild_TAH2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="105" data-file-height="105" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Algiers-Lagos_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Algiers-Lagos Highway">Algiers-Lagos Highway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Schild_TAH7.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Schild_TAH7.svg/20px-Schild_TAH7.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Schild_TAH7.svg/30px-Schild_TAH7.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Schild_TAH7.svg/40px-Schild_TAH7.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="105" data-file-height="105" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Dakar-Lagos_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakar-Lagos Highway">Dakar-Lagos Highway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/File:Schild_TAH5.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Schild_TAH5.svg/20px-Schild_TAH5.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Schild_TAH5.svg/30px-Schild_TAH5.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Schild_TAH5.svg/40px-Schild_TAH5.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="105" data-file-height="105" /></a> <a href="/wiki/Dakar-Ndjamena_Highway" class="mw-redirect" title="Dakar-Ndjamena Highway">Dakar-Ndjamena Highway</a></li></ul> Nigeria has the largest road network in <a href="/wiki/West_Africa" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>. It covers about 200,000 km, of which 60,000 km are asphalted. Nigeria's roads and highways handle 90% of all passenger and freight traffic. It contributes N2.4trn ($6.4bn) to GDP in 2020. The federal government is responsible for 35,000 km of the road network. The motorway links of important economic centres such as <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>-<a href="/wiki/Ibadan" title="Ibadan">Ibadan</a>, Lagos-<a href="/wiki/Badagry" title="Badagry">Badagry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Enugu" title="Enugu">Enugu</a>-<a href="/wiki/Onitsha" title="Onitsha">Onitsha</a> have been renovated.<a href="#cite_note-219">[217]</a> The rest of the road network is a state matter and therefore in very different shape, depending on which state you are in. Economically strong states such as Lagos, <a href="/wiki/Anambra_State" title="Anambra State">Anambra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rivers_State" title="Rivers State">Rivers</a> receive particularly poor evaluations.<a href="#cite_note-220">[218]</a> Most roads were built in the 1980s and early 1990s. Poor maintenance and inferior materials have worsened the condition of the roads. Travelling is very difficult. Especially during the rainy season, the use of secondary roads is sometimes almost impossible due to potholes.<a href="#cite_note-221">[219]</a> Road bandits often take advantage of this situation for their criminal purposes.<a href="#cite_note-222">[220]</a><a href="#cite_note-223">[221]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Idu_Station_Platform.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Idu_Station_Platform.jpg/220px-Idu_Station_Platform.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Idu_Station_Platform.jpg/330px-Idu_Station_Platform.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Idu_Station_Platform.jpg/440px-Idu_Station_Platform.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="672" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Abuja_Light_Rail" title="Abuja Light Rail">Abuja Light Rail</a> in Idu Station</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Rail_transport">Rail transport</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Rail_transport_in_Nigeria" title="Rail transport in Nigeria">Rail transport in Nigeria</a></div> Railways have undergone a massive revamping with projects such as the <a href="/wiki/Lagos%E2%80%93Kano_Standard_Gauge_Railway" title="Lagos–Kano Standard Gauge Railway">Lagos-Kano Standard Gauge Railway</a> being completed connecting northern cities of <a href="/wiki/Kano_State" title="Kano State">Kano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kaduna" title="Kaduna">Kaduna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abuja" title="Abuja">Abuja</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibadan" title="Ibadan">Ibadan</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Air_transport">Air transport</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_airports_in_Nigeria" title="List of airports in Nigeria">List of airports in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg/220px-Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg/330px-Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg/440px-Arik_Air_Hifly_A340-500_CS-TFW_in_LHR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1400" data-file-height="933" /></a><figcaption>An A340-500 of <a href="/wiki/Arik_Air" title="Arik Air">Arik Air</a> </figcaption></figure> The Nigerian aviation industry generated 198.62 billion naira (€400 million) in 2019, representing a contribution of 0.14% to GDP. It was the fastest-growing sector of the Nigerian economy in 2019. Passenger traffic increased from 9,358,166 in 2020 to 15,886,955 in 2021, a significant increase of over 69%. Aircraft movements increased by more than 46% from 2020 to 2021. Total freight volumes were 191 tonnes in 2020 but increased to 391 tonnes in 2021.<a href="#cite_note-224">[222]</a> In December 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Anambra_International_Cargo_Airport" title="Anambra International Cargo Airport">Anambra International Cargo Airport</a> started its operation.<a href="#cite_note-225">[223]</a> In April 2022, the second terminal of the <a href="/wiki/Murtala_Muhammed_International_Airport" title="Murtala Muhammed International Airport">Murtala Muhammed International Airport</a> has been inaugurated. It will increase the capacity of the airport to 14 million passengers per year.<a href="#cite_note-226">[224]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Air_Peace,_5N-BQP,_Boeing_737-33R.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg/220px-Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg/330px-Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg/440px-Air_Peace%2C_5N-BQP%2C_Boeing_737-33R.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="800" /></a><figcaption>B737-300 of <a href="/wiki/Air_Peace" title="Air Peace">Air Peace</a></figcaption></figure> There are 54 airports in Nigeria, The principal airports are: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Murtala_Muhammed_International_Airport" title="Murtala Muhammed International Airport">Murtala Muhammed International Airport</a> in Lagos,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nnamdi_Azikiwe_International_Airport" title="Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport">Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport</a> in Abuja,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mallam_Aminu_Kano_International_Airport" title="Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport">Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport</a> in Kano,</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akanu_Ibiam_International_Airport" title="Akanu Ibiam International Airport">Akanu Ibiam International Airport</a> in Enugu and</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Port_Harcourt_International_Airport" title="Port Harcourt International Airport">Port Harcourt International Airport</a> in Port Harcourt.</li></ul> Nigeria had in the past operated a state-owned airline <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_Airways" title="Nigeria Airways">Nigeria Airways</a> which was over-indebted in 2003 and was bought by the British <a href="/wiki/Virgin_Group" title="Virgin Group">Virgin Group</a>; since 28 June 2005, it has flown under the name <a href="/wiki/Air_Nigeria" title="Air Nigeria">Virgin Nigeria Airways</a>. At the end of 2008, the Virgin Group announced its withdrawal from the airline; since September 2009 the airline has been operating as Nigerian Eagle Airlines. The largest airline in Nigeria is privately owned <a href="/wiki/Air_Peace" title="Air Peace">Air Peace</a>, founded in 2012. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria" title="Demographics of Nigeria">Demographics of Nigeria</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_Nigeria" title="Social class in Nigeria">Social class in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png/310px-Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png" decoding="async" width="310" height="240" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png/465px-Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png/620px-Population_density_map_of_Nigerian_states_-_English.png 2x" data-file-width="823" data-file-height="638" /></a><figcaption>Population density (persons per square kilometre) in Nigeria</figcaption></figure>The <a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a> estimates that the population of Nigeria in 2021 was at 213,401,323<a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP-227">[225]</a><a href="#cite_note-UN_WPP_2022-228">[226]</a>, distributed as 51.7% rural and 48.3% urban, and with a population density of 167.5 people per square kilometre. Around 42.5% of the population were 14 years or younger, 19.6% were aged 15–24, 30.7% were aged 25–54, 4.0% were aged 55–64, and 3.1% were aged 65 years or older. The median age in 2017 was 18.4 years.<a href="#cite_note-People_and_Society:_Population22-229">[227]</a> Nigeria is the <a href="/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population#Sovereign_states_and_dependencies_by_population" title="List of countries and dependencies by population">world's sixth-most populous country</a>. The birth rate is 35.2-births/1,000 population and the death rate is 9.6 deaths/1,000 population as of 2017, while the total fertility rate is 5.07 children born/woman.<a href="#cite_note-People_and_Society:_Population22-229">[227]</a> Nigeria's population increased by 57 million from 1990 to 2008, a 60% growth rate in less than two decades.<a href="#cite_note-IEApop20112-230">[228]</a> Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa<a href="#cite_note-231">[229]</a> and accounts for about 17% of the continent's total population as of 2017; however, exactly how populous is a subject of speculation.<a href="#cite_note-auto12-232">[230]</a> Millions of Nigerians have emigrated during times of economic hardship, primarily to Europe, North America and Australia. It is estimated that over a million Nigerians have emigrated to the United States and constitute the <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian American">Nigerian American</a> populace. Individuals in many such Diasporic communities have joined the "Egbe Omo Yoruba" society, a national association of Yoruba descendants in North America.<a href="#cite_note-233">[231]</a><a href="#cite_note-234">[232]</a> Nigeria's largest city is <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>. Lagos has grown from about 300,000 in 1950<a href="#cite_note-235">[233]</a> to an estimated 13.4 million in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-Major_Urban_Areas:_Population-236">[234]</a> Nigeria has more than 250 ethnic groups, with varying languages and customs, creating a country of rich ethnic diversity. The three largest ethnic groups are the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_people" title="Hausa people">Hausa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> and <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbo</a>, together accounting for more than 60% of the population, while the <a href="/wiki/Edo_people" title="Edo people">Edo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ijaw_people" title="Ijaw people">Ijaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fula_people" title="Fula people">Fulɓe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kanuri_people" title="Kanuri people">Kanuri</a>, <a href="/wiki/Urhobo_people" title="Urhobo people">Urhobo-Isoko</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibibio_people" title="Ibibio people">Ibibio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ebira_people" title="Ebira people">Ebira</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nupe_people" title="Nupe people">Nupe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gbagyi_people" title="Gbagyi people">Gbagyi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jukun_people_(West_Africa)" title="Jukun people (West Africa)">Jukun</a>, <a href="/wiki/Igala_people" title="Igala people">Igala</a>, <a href="/wiki/Idoma_people" title="Idoma people">Idoma</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ogoni_people" title="Ogoni people">Ogoni</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tiv_people" title="Tiv people">Tiv</a> account for between 35 and 40%; other minorities make up the remaining 5%.<a href="#cite_note-NGeo-237">[235]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Middle_Belt" title="Middle Belt">Middle Belt</a> of Nigeria is known for its diversity of ethnic groups, including the <a href="/wiki/Atyap_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Atyap people">Atyap</a>, <a href="/wiki/Berom_people" title="Berom people">Berom</a>, Goemai, Igala, <a href="/wiki/Kofyar_people" title="Kofyar people">Kofyar</a>, Pyem, and <a href="/wiki/Tiv_people" title="Tiv people">Tiv</a>.<a href="#cite_note-felix2-132">[131]</a><a href="#cite_note-238">[236]</a><a href="#cite_note-239">[237]</a> There are small minorities of British, American, <a href="/wiki/Non-resident_Indian_and_person_of_Indian_origin" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-resident Indian and person of Indian origin">Indian</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chinese_people_in_Nigeria" title="Chinese people in Nigeria">Chinese</a> (est. 50,000),<a href="#cite_note-240">[238]</a> <a href="/wiki/White_Zimbabweans" title="White Zimbabweans">white Zimbabwean</a>,<a href="#cite_note-241">[239]</a> Japanese, Greek, Syrian and Lebanese immigrants. Immigrants also include those from other West African or East African nations. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Languages">Languages</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Nigeria" title="Languages of Nigeria">Languages of Nigeria</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-More_citations_needed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Refimprove" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section needs additional citations for <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">verification</a>. 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Find sources: <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Nigeria%22">"Nigeria"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Nigeria%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Nigeria%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Nigeria%22+-wikipedia">books</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Nigeria%22">scholar</a> · <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Nigeria%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a> (July 2018) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg/320px-Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg.png" decoding="async" width="320" height="246" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg/480px-Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/51/Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg/640px-Nigeria_linguistical_map_1979.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="954" data-file-height="734" /></a><figcaption>Map of Nigeria's linguistic groups</figcaption></figure><div class="PieChartTemplate thumb tright"><div class="thumbinner" style="width:202px"> <div class="mw-no-invert" style="background-color:white;margin:auto;position:relative;width:200px;height:200px;overflow:hidden;border-radius:100px;border:1px solid black;transform:scaleX(-1)rotate(-90deg)"> <div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:0; top:0; border-width:0 200px 200px 0; border-color:yellow; z-index:-1"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 2651.3256287233px; border-left-color:grey"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:grey"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:grey"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;left:100px; top:100px; border-width:100px 0 0 117.83254560581px; border-left-color:blue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:blue"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 100px 200px 0;border-color:blue"></div><div style="border:solid transparent;background-color:initial;position:absolute;width:100px;line-height:0;right:100px; top:100px; border-width:21.814324139654px 97.591676193875px 0 0; border-top-color:Green"></div> <div style="position:absolute;line-height:0;border-style:solid;left:0;top:0;border-width:0 200px 100px 0;border-color:Green"></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> Religion in Nigeria (2018 estimate in <a href="/wiki/The_World_Factbook" title="The World Factbook">The World Factbook</a> of <a href="/wiki/CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="CIA">CIA</a>)<a href="#cite_note-242">[240]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r981673959">.mw-parser-output .legend{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .legend-color{display:inline-block;min-width:1.25em;height:1.25em;line-height:1.25;margin:1px 0;text-align:center;border:1px solid black;background-color:transparent;color:black}.mw-parser-output .legend-text{}</style><div class="legend">  <a href="/wiki/Islam_in_Nigeria" title="Islam in Nigeria">Islam</a> (53.5%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend">  <a href="/wiki/Protestantism_in_Nigeria" title="Protestantism in Nigeria">Protestant</a> (35.3%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend">  <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church_in_Nigeria" title="Catholic Church in Nigeria">Roman Catholic</a> (10.6%)</div><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r981673959"><div class="legend">  Other (0.6%)</div> </div> </div></div>Five hundred and twenty-five languages have been spoken in Nigeria; out of these 525 languages, eight are now extinct.<a href="#cite_note-243">[241]</a> In some areas of Nigeria, ethnic groups speak more than one language. The official language of Nigeria, English, was chosen to facilitate the cultural and linguistic unity of the country, owing to the influence of British colonisation which ended in 1960. Many French speakers from surrounding countries have influenced the English spoken in the border regions of Nigeria and some Nigerian citizens have become fluent enough in French to work in the surrounding countries. The French spoken in Nigeria may be mixed with some native languages and English.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The major languages spoken in Nigeria represent three major families of <a href="/wiki/Languages_of_Africa" title="Languages of Africa">languages of Africa</a>: the majority are <a href="/wiki/Niger%E2%80%93Congo_languages" title="Niger–Congo languages">Niger-Congo</a> languages, such as <a href="/wiki/Igbo_language" title="Igbo language">Igbo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ibibio_language" title="Ibibio language">Ibibio</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ijaw_languages" title="Ijaw languages">Ijaw</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fula_language" title="Fula language">Fulfulde</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ogoni_languages" title="Ogoni languages">Ogoni</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Edo_language" title="Edo language">Edo</a>. <a href="/wiki/Kanuri_language" title="Kanuri language">Kanuri</a>, spoken in the northeast, primarily in <a href="/wiki/Borno_State" title="Borno State">Borno</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yobe_State" title="Yobe State">Yobe State</a>, is part of the <a href="/wiki/Nilo-Saharan_languages" title="Nilo-Saharan languages">Nilo-Saharan</a> family, and <a href="/wiki/Hausa_language" title="Hausa language">Hausa</a> is an <a href="/wiki/Afroasiatic_languages" title="Afroasiatic languages">Afroasiatic</a> language. Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their languages, English as the official language is widely used for education, business transactions and official purposes. English as a first language is used by only a small minority of the country's urban elite, and it is not spoken at all in some rural areas. Hausa is the most widely spoken of the three main languages spoken in Nigeria. With the majority of Nigeria's populace in rural areas, the major languages of communication in the country remain indigenous languages. Some of the largest of these, notably Yoruba and Igbo, have derived standardised languages from several different dialects and are widely spoken by those ethnic groups. <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Pidgin" title="Nigerian Pidgin">Nigerian Pidgin English</a>, often known simply as "<a href="/wiki/Pidgin" title="Pidgin">Pidgin</a>" or "Broken" (Broken English), is also a popular <a href="/wiki/Lingua_franca" title="Lingua franca">lingua franca</a>, though with varying regional influences on dialect and slang. The pidgin English or Nigerian English is widely spoken within the Niger Delta Region.<a href="#cite_note-244">[242]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Religion">Religion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Disputed plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-disputed" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/45px-System-search.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="45" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/68px-System-search.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/System-search.svg/90px-System-search.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section's factual accuracy is <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Accuracy_dispute" title="Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute">disputed</a>. Relevant discussion may be found on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Nigeria#Disputed" title="Talk:Nigeria">talk page</a>. Please help to ensure that disputed statements are <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources" title="Wikipedia:Reliable sources">reliably sourced</a>. (November 2023) (<a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a>)</div></td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_Nigeria" title="Religion in Nigeria">Religion in Nigeria</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Secularism_in_Nigeria" title="Secularism in Nigeria">Secularism in Nigeria</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237032888/mw-parser-output/.tmulti">.mw-parser-output .tmulti .multiimageinner{display:flex;flex-direction:column}.mw-parser-output .tmulti .trow{display:flex;flex-direction:row;clear:left;flex-wrap:wrap;width:100%;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .tmulti 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Abuja_Central_mosque.jpg/476px-Abuja_Central_mosque.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3932" data-file-height="2947" /></a></div><div class="thumbcaption"><a href="/wiki/Abuja_National_Mosque" title="Abuja National Mosque">Abuja National Mosque</a></div></div></div><div class="trow"><div class="tsingle" style="width:240px;max-width:240px"><div class="thumbimage" style="height:178px;overflow:hidden"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Cathedral_Church_of_Christ_Marina..jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/The_Cathedral_Church_of_Christ_Marina..jpg/238px-The_Cathedral_Church_of_Christ_Marina..jpg" decoding="async" width="238" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/The_Cathedral_Church_of_Christ_Marina..jpg/357px-The_Cathedral_Church_of_Christ_Marina..jpg 1.5x, 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Nigerians are nearly equally divided into <a href="/wiki/Muslims" title="Muslims">Muslims</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christians" title="Christians">Christians</a>, with a tiny minority of adherents of <a href="/wiki/Traditional_African_religions" title="Traditional African religions">traditional African religions</a> and other religions.<a href="#cite_note-Cia_19-245">[243]</a> The Christian share of Nigeria's population is in decline because of the lower <a href="/wiki/Total_fertility_rate" title="Total fertility rate">fertility rate</a> compared to Muslims in the country.<a href="#cite_note-246">[244]</a> As in other parts of Africa where Islam and Christianity are dominant, religious <a href="/wiki/Syncretism" title="Syncretism">syncretism</a> with the traditional African religions is common.<a href="#cite_note-247">[245]</a> A 2012 report on religion and public life by the <a href="/wiki/Pew_Research_Center" title="Pew Research Center">Pew Research Center</a> stated that in 2010, 49.3% of Nigeria's population was Christian, 48.8% was Muslim, and 1.9% were followers of indigenous and other religions (such as the <a href="/wiki/Hausa_animism" title="Hausa animism">Bori</a> in the North) or unaffiliated.<a href="#cite_note-Pew_Forum_on_Religion2-248">[246]</a> However, in a report released by Pew Research Center in 2015, the Muslim population was estimated to be 50%, and by 2060, according to the report, Muslims will account for about 60% of the country.<a href="#cite_note-249">[247]</a> The 2010 census of <a href="/wiki/Association_of_Religion_Data_Archives" title="Association of Religion Data Archives">Association of Religion Data Archives</a> has also reported that 48.8% of the total population was Christian, slightly larger than the Muslim population of 43.4%, while 7.5% were members of other religions.<a href="#cite_note-auto2-250">[248]</a> However, these estimates should be taken with caution because sample data is mostly collected from major urban areas in the south, which are predominantly Christian.<a href="#cite_note-Regional_Distribution_of_Christians2-251">[249]</a><a href="#cite_note-252">[250]</a><a href="#cite_note-253">[251]</a> According to a 2018 estimate in The <a href="/wiki/World_Factbook" class="mw-redirect" title="World Factbook">World Factbook</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a>, the population is estimated to be 53.5% Muslim, 45.9% Christian (10.6% Roman Catholic and 35.3% Protestant and other Christian), and 0.6% as other.<a href="#cite_note-254">[252]</a> Islam dominates northwestern Nigeria and northeastern Nigeria (<a href="/w/index.php?title=Hausa,_Kanuri_people&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hausa, Kanuri people (page does not exist)">Kanuri</a>, Fulani and other groups). In the west, the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_people" title="Yoruba people">Yoruba</a> people are predominantly Muslim with a significant Christian minority in addition to a few adherents of traditional religions.<a href="#cite_note-255">[253]</a> <a href="/wiki/Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a> and locally cultivated Christianity are widely practised in Western areas, while <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholicism">Roman Catholicism</a> is a more prominent Christian feature of southeastern Nigeria. Both Roman Catholicism and Protestantism are observed in the Ibibio, <a href="/wiki/Efik_people" title="Efik people">Efik</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ijaw_people" title="Ijaw people">Ijo</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ogoni_people" title="Ogoni people">Ogoni</a> lands of the south. The <a href="/wiki/Igbo_people" title="Igbo people">Igbos</a> (predominant in the east) and the <a href="/wiki/Ibibio_people" title="Ibibio people">Ibibio</a> (south) are 98% Christian, with 2% practising traditional religions.<a href="#cite_note-256">[254]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Middle_Belt" title="Middle Belt">middle belt</a> of Nigeria contains the largest number of minority ethnic groups in Nigeria, who were found to be majority Christians and members of traditional religions, with a significant Muslim minority.<a href="#cite_note-257">[255]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health">Health</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Health_in_Nigeria" title="Health in Nigeria">Health in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Paediatric_ward,_General_hospital,_Ilorin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg/220px-Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg/330px-Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg/440px-Paediatric_ward%2C_General_hospital%2C_Ilorin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3872" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Paediatric ward, General hospital, Ilorin</figcaption></figure> Health care delivery in Nigeria is a concurrent responsibility of the three tiers of government in the country, and the private sector.<a href="#cite_note-258">[256]</a> Nigeria has been reorganising its health system since the <a href="/wiki/Bamako_Initiative" title="Bamako Initiative">Bamako Initiative</a> of 1987, which formally promoted community-based methods of increasing accessibility of drugs and health care services to the population, in part by implementing user fees.<a href="#cite_note-259">[257]</a> The new strategy dramatically increased accessibility through community-based health care reform, resulting in more efficient and equitable provision of services. A comprehensive approach strategy was extended to all areas of health care, with subsequent improvement in the health care indicators and improvement in health care efficiency and cost.<a href="#cite_note-260">[258]</a> Almost half of Nigerians, or 48%, report that they or a household member has fallen ill in the last three months. <a href="/wiki/Malaria" title="Malaria">Malaria</a> had been diagnosed in 88% of the cases and <a href="/wiki/Typhoid_fever" title="Typhoid fever">typhoid fever</a> in 32%.<a href="#cite_note-:13-261">[259]</a> High blood pressure was in third place with 8%. For symptoms of malaria, 41% of Nigerians turn to a <a href="/wiki/Hospital" title="Hospital">hospital</a>, 22% to a chemist's shop, 21% to a pharmacy and 11% seek cure through herbs.<a href="#cite_note-:13-261">[259]</a> The <a href="/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Nigeria" title="HIV/AIDS in Nigeria">HIV/AIDS rate in Nigeria</a> is much lower than in other African nations such as Botswana or South Africa whose prevalence (percentage) rates are in the double digits. As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nigeria&action=edit">[update]</a>, the <a href="/wiki/HIV" title="HIV">HIV</a> prevalence rate among adults of ages 15–49 was 1.5 per cent.<a href="#cite_note-:0-262">[260]</a> <a href="/wiki/Life_expectancy" title="Life expectancy">Life expectancy</a> in Nigeria is 54.7 years on average,<a href="#cite_note-:0-262">[260]</a> and 71% and 39% of the population have access to improved water sources and improved <a href="/wiki/Sanitation" title="Sanitation">sanitation</a>, respectively.<a href="#cite_note-263">[261]</a> As of 2019<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nigeria&action=edit">[update]</a>, the infant mortality is 74.2 deaths per 1,000 <a href="/wiki/Live_birth_(human)" title="Live birth (human)">live births</a>.<a href="#cite_note-264">[262]</a> In 2012, a new bone marrow donor program was launched by the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Nigeria" title="University of Nigeria">University of Nigeria</a> to help people with <a href="/wiki/Leukaemia" class="mw-redirect" title="Leukaemia">leukaemia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lymphoma" title="Lymphoma">lymphoma</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Sickle_cell_disease" title="Sickle cell disease">sickle cell disease</a> to find a compatible donor for a life-saving <a href="/wiki/Hematopoietic_stem_cell_transplantation" title="Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation">bone marrow transplant</a>, which cures them of their conditions. Nigeria became the second African country to have successfully carried out this surgery.<a href="#cite_note-McNeil-265">[263]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/Western_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic" class="mw-redirect" title="Western African Ebola virus epidemic">2014 Ebola outbreak</a>, Nigeria was the first country to effectively contain and eliminate the Ebola threat that was ravaging three other countries in the West African region; the unique method of <a href="/wiki/Contact_tracing" title="Contact tracing">contact tracing</a> employed by Nigeria became an effective method later used by countries such as the United States when Ebola threats were discovered.<a href="#cite_note-Matt_Schiavenza-266">[264]</a><a href="#cite_note-The_Punch-267">[265]</a><a href="#cite_note-Vanguard-268">[266]</a> The Nigerian health care system is continuously faced with a shortage of doctors known as "<a href="/wiki/Human_capital_flight" title="Human capital flight">brain drain</a>", because of emigration by skilled Nigerian doctors to North America and Europe. In 1995, an estimated 21,000 Nigerian doctors were practising in the United States alone, which is about the same as the number of doctors working in the Nigerian public service. Retaining these expensively trained professionals has been identified as one of the goals of the government.<a href="#cite_note-269">[267]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Education_in_Nigeria" title="Education in Nigeria">Education in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building,_Faculty_of_Science,_Lagos_State_University.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg/220px-Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg/330px-Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg/440px-Abisogun_Leigh_Science_Building%2C_Faculty_of_Science%2C_Lagos_State_University.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Abisogun Leigh Science Building, for the <a href="/wiki/Lagos_State_University" title="Lagos State University">Lagos State University</a>'s Faculty of Science</figcaption></figure> Education in Nigeria is overseen by the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Ministry_of_Education_(Nigeria)" title="Federal Ministry of Education (Nigeria)">Ministry of Education</a>. <a href="/wiki/Local_government_areas_of_Nigeria" title="Local government areas of Nigeria">Local authorities</a> take responsibility for implementing policy for state-controlled public education and state schools at a regional level. The education system is divided into <a href="/wiki/Kindergarten" title="Kindergarten">kindergarten</a>, <a href="/wiki/Primary_education" title="Primary education">primary education</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secondary_education" title="Secondary education">secondary education</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tertiary_education" title="Tertiary education">tertiary education</a>. After the 1970s oil boom, tertiary education was improved so it would reach every subregion of Nigeria. 68% of the Nigerian population is literate, and the rate for men (75.7%) is higher than that for women (60.6%).<a href="#cite_note-CP2006-270">[268]</a> Nigeria provides free, government-supported education, but attendance is not compulsory at any level, and certain groups, such as nomads and the handicapped, are under-served. Nearly 10.5 million Nigerian children aged 5–14 years are not in school. Only 61% of 6–11 year-olds regularly attend primary school.<a href="#cite_note-271">[269]</a> The education system consists of six years of primary school, three years of junior secondary school, three years of senior secondary school, and four, five or six years of university education leading to a bachelor's degree.<a href="#cite_note-CP2006-270">[268]</a> The government has majority control of university education. Tertiary education in Nigeria consists of universities (public and private), polytechnics, monotechnics, and colleges of education. The country has a total of 138 universities, with 40 federally owned, 39 state-owned, and 59 privately owned. Nigeria was ranked 113th in the <a href="/wiki/Global_Innovation_Index" title="Global Innovation Index">Global Innovation Index</a> in 2024.<a href="#cite_note-272">[270]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Crime">Crime</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Nigeria" title="Crime in Nigeria">Crime in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nigerian_female_police.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Nigerian_female_police.jpg/220px-Nigerian_female_police.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Nigerian_female_police.jpg/330px-Nigerian_female_police.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/da/Nigerian_female_police.jpg/440px-Nigerian_female_police.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="667" /></a><figcaption>A <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_Police_Force" title="Nigeria Police Force">Nigerian police officer</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Eyo_festival" title="Eyo festival">Eyo festival</a> in Lagos</figcaption></figure>The security situation in Nigeria is considered inadequate despite political stability. 68% of Nigerians feel "not safe" in their country. 77% do not know of an alarm number ("helpline") for emergencies.<a href="#cite_note-:14-273">[271]</a> Nigerians, according to the above survey, fear being robbed (24%) or kidnapped (also 24%), being victims of armed bandits or of petty theft (both 8%), or being harmed in the herdsmen-farmers conflict (also 8%).<a href="#cite_note-:14-273">[271]</a> This is followed by "ritual killings" (4%) and "Boko Haram" (3.5%). Respondents see "more security personnel and better training" (37%), "reduction of unemployment" (13%) and "prayers / divine intervention" (8%) as promising countermeasures.<a href="#cite_note-:14-273">[271]</a><figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg/220px-Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg/330px-Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg/440px-Crime_rate_nigeria_uk.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1321" data-file-height="1136" /></a><figcaption>Homicides by Nigerian state per year and per 1 million inhabitants, comparing the UK and Turkey (Source: Nigeria Security Tracker 1/2020-6/2023)</figcaption></figure> The number of homicides in Nigeria varies greatly depending on the state. Metropoles such as <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ibadan" title="Ibadan">Ibadan</a> seem much safer than rural areas. Kano has better statistics than the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">UK</a>, with one and one-half homicides per year and one million inhabitants - which can be explained by the fact that the region's religious and morality police not only monitor the morality of the inhabitants and crack down on drug users, but also have a curbing effect on murder and manslaughter.<a href="#cite_note-274">[272]</a> This contrasts with other cities that are also Islamic, such as <a href="/wiki/Maiduguri" title="Maiduguri">Maiduguri</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kaduna" title="Kaduna">Kaduna</a>, which have worrying statistics on homicides. There is some <a href="/wiki/Piracy_in_the_Gulf_of_Guinea" title="Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea">piracy in the Gulf of Guinea</a>, with attacks directed at all types of vessels. However, security measures on board of mentioned vessels have recently meant that pirates are now more likely to attack fishing villages.<a href="#cite_note-275">[273]</a> Internationally, Nigeria is infamous for a type of <a href="/wiki/Advance-fee_scam" title="Advance-fee scam">advance-fee scam</a> along with a form of <a href="/wiki/Confidence_trick" class="mw-redirect" title="Confidence trick">confidence trick</a>. The victim is talked into sending money or bank account information to the scammer on the premise that a larger amount of money will be transferred to them. In reality, the scammer collects money from the victim with no payout occurring.<a href="#cite_note-276">[274]</a> In 2003, the Nigerian <a href="/wiki/Economic_and_Financial_Crimes_Commission" title="Economic and Financial Crimes Commission">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission</a> was created to combat this and other forms of organised financial crime.<a href="#cite_note-277">[275]</a> The EFCC is quite active.<a href="#cite_note-278">[276]</a><a href="#cite_note-279">[277]</a><a href="#cite_note-280">[278]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Poverty">Poverty</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_Nigeria" title="Poverty in Nigeria">Poverty in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Starved_girl.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Starved_girl.jpg/220px-Starved_girl.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="334" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Starved_girl.jpg/330px-Starved_girl.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Starved_girl.jpg/440px-Starved_girl.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1177" data-file-height="1788" /></a><figcaption>A starved girl in the late 1960s</figcaption></figure> According to the <a href="/wiki/International_Monetary_Fund" title="International Monetary Fund">International Monetary Fund</a>, 32% of Nigeria's population lives in extreme poverty (as of 2017), living on less than US$2.15 a day.<a href="#cite_note-281">[279]</a> The <a href="/wiki/World_Bank" title="World Bank">World Bank</a> stated in March 2022 that the number of poor Nigerians had increased by 5 million to 95.1 million during the Covid period.<a href="#cite_note-282">[280]</a> Accordingly, 40% of Nigerians live below the poverty line of US$1.90 as handled by the World Bank.<a href="#cite_note-283">[281]</a> The threshold amounts used internationally by the IMF and the World Bank do not take into account the local purchasing power of a US dollar.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The methodology is therefore not without controversy.<a href="#cite_note-284">[282]</a><a href="#cite_note-285">[283]</a> Despite the undoubted existence of slums in Nigeria, for example, the fact that 92% of men and 88% of women in Nigeria own a mobile phone<a href="#cite_note-286">[284]</a> is difficult to reconcile with the poverty percentages published by the IMF and the World Bank. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Human_rights">Human rights</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Human_rights_in_Nigeria" title="Human rights in Nigeria">Human rights in Nigeria</a> and <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Nigeria">LGBT rights in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos,_Nigeria_19.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg/220px-Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg/330px-Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg/440px-Protesters_at_the_endSARS_protest_in_Lagos%2C_Nigeria_19.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="681" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/End_SARS" title="End SARS">End SARS</a> is a decentralised social movement and series of mass protests against <a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">police brutality</a> in Nigeria.</figcaption></figure> Nigeria's human rights record remains poor.<a href="#cite_note-StateDeptHumanRights2-287">[285]</a> According to the U.S. Department of State,<a href="#cite_note-StateDeptHumanRights2-287">[285]</a> the most significant human rights problems are the use of excessive force by security forces, impunity for abuses by security forces, arbitrary arrests, prolonged pretrial detention, judicial corruption and executive influence on the judiciary, rape, torture and other cruel, <a href="/wiki/Inhuman_or_degrading_treatment" class="mw-redirect" title="Inhuman or degrading treatment">inhuman or degrading treatment</a> of prisoners, detainees and suspects; harsh and life‑threatening prison and detention centre conditions; human trafficking for prostitution and forced labour, societal violence and vigilante killings, <a href="/wiki/Child_labour_in_Nigeria" title="Child labour in Nigeria">child labour</a>, child abuse and <a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_Nigeria" title="Child sexual abuse in Nigeria">child sexual exploitation</a>, <a href="/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Nigeria" title="Domestic violence in Nigeria">domestic violence</a>, discrimination based on ethnicity, region and religion. Nigeria is a state party of the <a href="/wiki/Convention_on_the_Elimination_of_All_Forms_of_Discrimination_Against_Women" title="Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women">Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women</a><a href="#cite_note-288">[286]</a> It also has signed the <a href="/wiki/Maputo_Protocol" title="Maputo Protocol">Maputo Protocol</a>, an international treaty on women's rights, and the African Union Women's Rights Framework.<a href="#cite_note-289">[287]</a> Discrimination based on sex is a significant human rights issue. Forced marriages are common.<a href="#cite_note-290">[288]</a> <a href="/wiki/Child_marriage_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Child marriage in Nigeria">Child marriage</a> remains common in Northern Nigeria;<a href="#cite_note-291">[289]</a> 39% of girls are married before age 15, although the Marriage Rights Act banning marriage of girls under 18 was introduced on a federal level in 2008.<a href="#cite_note-292">[290]</a> There is rampant <a href="/wiki/Polygamy_in_Nigeria" title="Polygamy in Nigeria">polygamy in Northern Nigeria</a>.<a href="#cite_note-293">[291]</a> <a href="/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Nigeria" title="Domestic violence in Nigeria">Domestic violence is common</a>. Women have fewer land rights.<a href="#cite_note-294">[292]</a> <a href="/wiki/Maternal_death" title="Maternal death">Maternal mortality</a> was at 814 per 100,000 live births in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-295">[293]</a> <a href="/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation_in_Nigeria" title="Female genital mutilation in Nigeria">Female genital mutilation is common</a>, although a ban was implemented in 2015.<a href="#cite_note-296">[294]</a> At least half a million suffer from <a href="/wiki/Urogenital_fistula" title="Urogenital fistula">vaginal fistula</a>, largely as a result of lack of medical care.<a href="#cite_note-297">[295]</a><a href="#cite_note-298">[296]</a> <a href="/wiki/Gender_inequality_in_Nigeria" title="Gender inequality in Nigeria">Women face a large amount of inequality</a> Politically in Nigeria, being subjugated to a bias that is <a href="/wiki/Sexism" title="Sexism">sexist</a> and reinforced by socio-cultural, economic and oppressive ways.<a href="#cite_note-299">[297]</a> Women throughout the country were only politically <a href="/wiki/Emancipation" title="Emancipation">emancipated</a> in 1979.<a href="#cite_note-300">[298]</a> Yet husbands continue to dictate the votes for many women, which upholds the patriarchal system.<a href="#cite_note-Ajayi,_Kunle_200723-301">[299]</a> Most workers in the <a href="/wiki/Informal_economy" title="Informal economy">informal sector</a> are women.<a href="#cite_note-302">[300]</a> Women's representation in government since independence from Britain is very poor. Women have been reduced to sideline roles in appointive posts throughout all levels of government and still make up a tiny minority of elected officials.<a href="#cite_note-Ajayi,_Kunle_200723-301">[299]</a> But nowadays with more education available to the public, Nigerian women are taking steps to have more active roles in the public, and with the help of different initiatives, more businesses are being started by women. Under the <a href="/wiki/Sharia_in_Nigeria" title="Sharia in Nigeria">Shari'a</a> penal code that applies to Muslims in twelve northern states, offences such as alcohol consumption, <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Nigeria">homosexuality</a>,<a href="#cite_note-303">[301]</a> infidelity and theft carry harsh sentences, including amputation, lashing, stoning and long prison terms.<a href="#cite_note-UKtravel2-304">[302]</a> Nigeria is considered to be one of the most <a href="/wiki/Homophobia" title="Homophobia">homophobic</a> countries in the world.<a href="#cite_note-pewglobal.org2-305">[303]</a><a href="#cite_note-306">[304]</a><a href="#cite_note-307">[305]</a> In the 23 years up to September 2022, university workers in Nigeria went on strike 17 times, for a total of 57 months.<a href="#cite_note-308">[306]</a> As a result, the 2022 summer semester was cancelled nationwide.<a href="#cite_note-309">[307]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Culture_of_Nigeria" title="Culture of Nigeria">Culture of Nigeria</a></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Literature">Literature</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_literature" title="Nigerian literature">Nigerian literature</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Chinua_Achebe,_1966_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg/255px-Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg/340px-Chinua_Achebe%2C_1966_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="661" data-file-height="881" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chinua_Achebe" title="Chinua Achebe">Chinua Achebe</a>, winner <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> 2007 and <a href="/wiki/Friedenspreis_des_Deutschen_Buchhandels" title="Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels">Peace Award of the German book trade</a> 2002</figcaption></figure> Most Nigerian literature is written in <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, partly because this language is understood by most Nigerians. Literature in the <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_language" title="Yoruba language">Yoruba</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hausa_language" title="Hausa language">Hausa</a> and <a href="/wiki/Igbo_language" title="Igbo language">Igbo</a> languages (the three most populous language groups in Nigeria) does exist, however, and in the case of the Hausa, for example, can look back on a centuries-old tradition. With <a href="/wiki/Wole_Soyinka" title="Wole Soyinka">Wole Soyinka</a>, Nigeria can present a <a href="/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize winner for literature</a>. <a href="/wiki/Ben_Okri" title="Ben Okri">Ben Okri</a> won the prestigious <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize" title="Booker Prize">Booker Prize</a> in 1991; <a href="/wiki/Chinua_Achebe" title="Chinua Achebe">Chinua Achebe</a> did the same in 2007. Achebe also won the <a href="/wiki/Friedenspreis_des_Deutschen_Buchhandels" title="Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels">Peace Award of the German Book Trade</a> in 2002. <a href="/wiki/Lola_Shoneyin" title="Lola Shoneyin">Lola Shoneyin</a> has won several awards for her book <a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Lives_of_Baba_Segi%27s_Wives_(novel)" title="The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives (novel)">The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Music">Music</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Music_of_Nigeria" title="Music of Nigeria">Music of Nigeria</a></div> The earliest known form of popular music in Nigeria was the <a href="/wiki/Palm-wine_music" title="Palm-wine music">palm-wine music</a> which dominated the music landscape in the 1920s. <a href="/wiki/Tunde_King" title="Tunde King">Tunde King</a> was a prominent name in the genre.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation-310">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-sunng-311">[309]</a> The 1930s saw the emergence of Onitsha Native Orchestra. They explored various social themes and trends in their native singing style.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation-310">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-sunng-311">[309]</a> In the 1950s and 1960s, <a href="/wiki/Highlife" title="Highlife">Highlife music</a> became a popular staple in the country with regional genres such as the <a href="/wiki/Igbo_highlife" title="Igbo highlife">Igbo Highlife</a>. A notable exponent of the genre were the genre's first Nigerian <a href="/wiki/Boy_band" title="Boy band">boy band</a> <a href="/wiki/Oriental_Brothers_International" title="Oriental Brothers International">Oriental Brothers International</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Benson" title="Bobby Benson">Bobby Benson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chief_Stephen_Osita_Osadebe" title="Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe">Osita Osadebe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Olaiya" title="Victor Olaiya">Victor Olaiya</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rex_Lawson" title="Rex Lawson">Rex Lawson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dr_Sir_Warrior" title="Dr Sir Warrior">Dr Sir Warrior</a> and <a href="/wiki/Oliver_De_Coque" title="Oliver De Coque">Oliver De Coque</a>.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation-310">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-sunng-311">[309]</a> The 1970s was the era of <a href="/wiki/Fela_Kuti" title="Fela Kuti">Fela Kuti</a>, the pioneer of Afrobeat genre - fused from <a href="/wiki/Highlife" title="Highlife">Highlife</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a> and <a href="/wiki/Yoruba_music" title="Yoruba music">Yoruba Music</a>. Fela later evolved into social activism and black consciousness.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation-310">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-sunng-311">[309]</a> In the 1980s, King Sunny Ade achieved success with <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B9j%C3%BA_music" title="Jùjú music">Juju Music</a>. Prominent singer of the era is <a href="/wiki/William_Onyeabor" title="William Onyeabor">William Onyeabor</a> who is known for his fusion of <a href="/wiki/Funk" title="Funk">Funk Music</a> and <a href="/wiki/Disco" title="Disco">Disco</a>.<a href="#cite_note-theconversation-310">[308]</a><a href="#cite_note-312">[310]</a> By the 1990s, reggae music transitioned into the music scene. Prominent reggae artiste of the era was <a href="/wiki/Majek_Fashek" title="Majek Fashek">Majek Fashek</a>. By the mid-1990s, <a href="/wiki/Hip_hop_music" title="Hip hop music">Hip hop Music</a> began to gain popularity, led by acts such as <a href="/wiki/The_Remedies" title="The Remedies">Remedies</a>, Trybes Men, JJC, etc. Throughout the years, <a href="/wiki/Highlife" title="Highlife">highlife music</a> retained its popularity in the country. At the turn of the century, famous 2000s acts like <a href="/wiki/P-Square" title="P-Square">P-Square</a>, <a href="/wiki/2Baba" title="2Baba">2face</a>, and <a href="/wiki/D%27banj" title="D'banj">Dbanj</a> were credited to have made tremendous impact in the evolution of <a href="/wiki/Afrobeats" title="Afrobeats">Afrobeats</a> and its popularization on the international stage.<a href="#cite_note-313">[311]</a><a href="#cite_note-314">[312]</a><a href="#cite_note-315">[313]</a> In November 2008, Nigeria's music scene (and that of Africa) received international attention when MTV hosted the continent's first African music awards show in Abuja.<a href="#cite_note-316">[314]</a> Over a decade later, the Afrobeat genre has widely taken over, with artist like <a href="/wiki/Davido" title="Davido">Davido</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wizkid" title="Wizkid">Wizkid</a> and <a href="/wiki/Burna_Boy" title="Burna Boy">Burna Boy</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cinema">Cinema</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Cinema_of_Nigeria" title="Cinema of Nigeria">Cinema of Nigeria</a></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224211176">.mw-parser-output .quotebox{background-color:#F9F9F9;border:1px solid #aaa;box-sizing:border-box;padding:10px;font-size:88%;max-width:100%}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft{margin:.5em 1.4em .8em 0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright{margin:.5em 0 .8em 1.4em}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.centered{overflow:hidden;position:relative;margin:.5em auto .8em auto}.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatleft span,.mw-parser-output .quotebox.floatright span{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox>blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;border-left:0;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-title{text-align:center;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote>:first-child{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote:last-child>:last-child{margin-bottom:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:before{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" “ ";vertical-align:-45%;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox-quote.quoted:after{font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;font-weight:bold;font-size:large;color:gray;content:" ” ";line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .left-aligned{text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .right-aligned{text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .center-aligned{text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quote-title,.mw-parser-output .quotebox .quotebox-quote{display:block}.mw-parser-output .quotebox cite{display:block;font-style:normal}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .quotebox{width:100%!important;margin:0 0 .8em!important;float:none!important}}</style><div class="quotebox pullquote floatright" style=";"> <blockquote class="quotebox-quote left-aligned" style=""> Top five <a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_Nigerian_films" title="List of highest-grossing Nigerian films">highest grossing Nigerian films</a>: <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Omo_Ghetto:_The_Saga" title="Omo Ghetto: The Saga">Omo Ghetto: The Saga</a> (₦636 million)<a href="#cite_note-Top_20_films_9th_15th_April_2021_-_Cinema_Exhibitors_Association_of_Nigeria-317">[315]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wedding_Party_(2016_film)" title="The Wedding Party (2016 film)">The Wedding Party</a> (₦452 million)<a href="#cite_note-premiumtimesng.com-318">[316]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Wedding_Party_2" title="The Wedding Party 2">The Wedding Party 2</a> (₦433 million)<a href="#cite_note-319">[317]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_Daddy" title="Chief Daddy">Chief Daddy</a> (₦387 million)<a href="#cite_note-320">[318]</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_of_Thieves_(2022_film)" title="King of Thieves (2022 film)">King of Thieves</a> (2022, ₦321 million)<a href="#cite_note-Top_20_films_24th_26th_June_2022_-_Cinema_Exhibitors_Association_of_Nigeria-321">[319]</a></li></ul> </blockquote> </div> The Nigerian film industry is known as <a href="/wiki/Nollywood" title="Nollywood">Nollywood</a> (a <a href="/wiki/Blend_word" title="Blend word">blend</a> of "Nigeria" and "Hollywood")<a href="#cite_note-322">[320]</a> and is now the second-largest producer of movies in the world, having surpassed Hollywood. Only India's <a href="/wiki/Bollywood" class="mw-redirect" title="Bollywood">Bollywood</a> is larger. Nigerian <a href="/wiki/Film_studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Film studios">film studios</a> are based in <a href="/wiki/Lagos" title="Lagos">Lagos</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kano_(city)" title="Kano (city)">Kano</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Enugu" title="Enugu">Enugu</a>, and form a major portion of the local economy of these cities. Nigerian cinema is Africa's largest movie industry in terms of both value and the number of movies produced per year. Although Nigerian films have been produced since the 1960s, the country's film industry has been aided by the rise of affordable <a href="/wiki/Digital_cinema" title="Digital cinema">digital filming and editing</a> technologies. The 2009 thriller film <a href="/wiki/The_Figurine" title="The Figurine">The Figurine</a> heightened the media attention towards the <a href="/wiki/New_Nigerian_Cinema" title="New Nigerian Cinema">New Nigerian Cinema</a> revolution. The film was a critical and commercial success in Nigeria, and it was also screened in international film festivals.<a href="#cite_note-Thorburn,_Jane2-323">[321]</a> The 2010 film <a href="/wiki/Ij%C3%A9" title="Ijé">Ijé</a> by Chineze Anyaene, overtook The Figurine to become the <a href="/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="List of highest-grossing films in Nigeria">highest-grossing Nigerian film</a>; a record it held for four years until it was overtaken in 2014 by <a href="/wiki/Half_of_a_Yellow_Sun_(film)" title="Half of a Yellow Sun (film)">Half of a Yellow Sun</a> (2013).<a href="#cite_note-The_Economist2-324">[322]</a><a href="#cite_note-325">[323]</a> By 2016, this record was held by <a href="/wiki/The_Wedding_Party_(2016_film)" title="The Wedding Party (2016 film)">The Wedding Party</a> by <a href="/wiki/Kemi_Adetiba" title="Kemi Adetiba">Kemi Adetiba</a>. By the end of 2013, the film industry reportedly hit a record-breaking revenue of ₦1.72 trillion (US$4.1 billion). As of 2014, the industry was worth ₦853.9 billion (US$5.1 billion), making it the third most valuable film industry in the world behind the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/India" title="India">India</a>. It contributed about 1.4% to Nigeria's economy; this was attributed to the increase in the number of quality films produced and more formal distribution methods.<a href="#cite_note-326">[324]</a><a href="#cite_note-327">[325]</a> <a href="/wiki/T.B._Joshua" class="mw-redirect" title="T.B. Joshua">T.B. Joshua</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Emmanuel_TV" title="Emmanuel TV">Emmanuel TV</a>, originating from Nigeria, is one of the most viewed television stations across Africa.<a href="#cite_note-328">[326]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festival">Festival</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Festivals_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Festivals in Nigeria">Festivals in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg/220px-Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg/330px-Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg/440px-Ofala_Onitsha_13.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Ofala Festival of Onitsha People</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg/220px-Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg/330px-Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg/440px-Palace_Warriors_elite_guards.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4186" data-file-height="2108" /></a><figcaption>Annual Sallah Durbar procession in Bauchi</figcaption></figure> There are many <a href="/wiki/Festivals_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Festivals in Nigeria">festivals in Nigeria</a>, some of which date to the period before the arrival of the major religions in this ethnically and culturally diverse society. The main Muslim and Christian festivals are often celebrated in ways that are unique to Nigeria or unique to the people of a locality.<a href="#cite_note-OnlineNigeria2-329">[327]</a> The Nigerian Tourism Development Corporation has been working with the states to upgrade the traditional festivals, which may become important sources of tourism revenue.<a href="#cite_note-Oxford20102-330">[328]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cuisine">Cuisine</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cooked_masa.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Cooked_masa.jpg/170px-Cooked_masa.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Cooked_masa.jpg/255px-Cooked_masa.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Cooked_masa.jpg/340px-Cooked_masa.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4160" data-file-height="3120" /></a><figcaption>Masa</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg/170px-Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg/255px-Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b4/Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg/340px-Suya_with_pepper_sauce.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1440" data-file-height="1920" /></a><figcaption> Suya With Pepper Sauce </figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AKARA.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/AKARA.jpg/170px-AKARA.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/AKARA.jpg/255px-AKARA.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/AKARA.jpg/340px-AKARA.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4032" data-file-height="3024" /></a><figcaption> Akara</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nkwobi.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Nkwobi.jpg/170px-Nkwobi.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Nkwobi.jpg/255px-Nkwobi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Nkwobi.jpg/340px-Nkwobi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="756" data-file-height="1008" /></a><figcaption> Nkwobi</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_cuisine" title="Nigerian cuisine">Nigerian cuisine</a>, like West African cuisine in general, is known for its richness and variety. Many different spices, herbs, and flavourings are used in conjunction with <a href="/wiki/Palm_oil" title="Palm oil">palm oil</a> or <a href="/wiki/Peanut" title="Peanut">groundnut</a> oil to create deeply flavoured sauces and soups often made very hot with <a href="/wiki/Chili_pepper" title="Chili pepper">chilli peppers</a>. Nigerian feasts are colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are plentiful and varied. <a href="/wiki/Suya" title="Suya">Suya</a> is usually sold in urban areas especially during night-time.<a href="#cite_note-331">[329]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fashion">Fashion</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Fashion_in_Nigeria" title="Fashion in Nigeria">Fashion in Nigeria</a></div> The fashion industry in Nigeria contributes significantly to the country's economics. Casual attire is commonly worn but formal and traditional styles are also worn depending on the occasion. Nigeria is known not only for its fashionable textiles and garments, but also for its fashion designers who have increasingly gained international recognition. <a href="/wiki/Euromonitor_International" title="Euromonitor International">Euromonitor</a> estimates the <a href="/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">Sub-Saharan</a> fashion <a href="/wiki/Market_(economics)" title="Market (economics)">market</a> to be worth $31 billion, with Nigeria accounting for 15% of these $31 billion.<a href="#cite_note-332">[330]</a> Nigeria is not only known for their many fashion textiles and garment pieces that are secret to their culture. They also outputted many fashion designers who have developed many techniques and businesses along the way. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Sports_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Sports in Nigeria">Sports in Nigeria</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NIG-ARG_(2).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg/220px-NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="139" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg/330px-NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/69/NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg/440px-NIG-ARG_%282%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="945" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria</a> at the <a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2018 FIFA World Cup">2018 FIFA World Cup</a></figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">Football</a> is largely considered Nigeria's national sport, and the country has its own <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_Professional_Football_League" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigeria Professional Football League">Premier League</a> of football. <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_national_football_team" title="Nigeria national football team">Nigeria's national football team</a>, known as the "Super Eagles", has played in the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Cup" title="FIFA World Cup">FIFA World Cup</a> on six occasions (<a href="/wiki/1994_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1994 FIFA World Cup">1994</a>, <a href="/wiki/1998_FIFA_World_Cup" title="1998 FIFA World Cup">1998</a>, <a href="/wiki/2002_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2002 FIFA World Cup">2002</a>, <a href="/wiki/2010_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2010 FIFA World Cup">2010</a>, <a href="/wiki/2014_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2014 FIFA World Cup">2014</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2018_FIFA_World_Cup" title="2018 FIFA World Cup">2018</a>). In April 1994, the Super Eagles ranked fifth in the <a href="/wiki/FIFA_World_Rankings" class="mw-redirect" title="FIFA World Rankings">FIFA World Rankings</a>, the highest ranking achieved by an African team. They won the <a href="/wiki/Africa_Cup_of_Nations" title="Africa Cup of Nations">Africa Cup of Nations</a> in <a href="/wiki/1980_African_Cup_of_Nations" title="1980 African Cup of Nations">1980</a>, <a href="/wiki/1994_African_Cup_of_Nations" title="1994 African Cup of Nations">1994</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2013_Africa_Cup_of_Nations" title="2013 Africa Cup of Nations">2013</a>, and have also hosted both the U17 and U20 FIFA World Cup. They won the gold medal for football in the <a href="/wiki/1996_Summer_Olympics" title="1996 Summer Olympics">1996 Summer Olympics</a> (in which they beat Argentina) becoming the first African football team to win gold in Olympic football. Nigeria is also involved in other sports such as basketball, cricket and track and field.<a href="#cite_note-333">[331]</a> <a href="/wiki/Nigeria_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Nigeria men's national basketball team">Nigeria's national basketball team</a> made the headlines internationally when it became the first African team to beat the <a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="United States men's national basketball team">United States men's national team</a>.<a href="#cite_note-334">[332]</a> In earlier years, Nigeria qualified for the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_2012_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 2012 Summer Olympics">2012 Summer Olympics</a> as it beat heavily favoured world elite teams such as <a href="/wiki/Greece_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Greece men's national basketball team">Greece</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lithuania_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="Lithuania men's national basketball team">Lithuania</a>.<a href="#cite_note-335">[333]</a> Nigeria has been home to numerous internationally recognised basketball players in the world's top leagues in America, Europe and Asia. These players include <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Basketball Hall of Famer</a> <a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Hakeem Olajuwon</a>, and later players in the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">NBA</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Premier_League_(basketball)" title="Nigerian Premier League (basketball)">Nigerian Premier League</a> has become one of the biggest and most-watched basketball competitions in Africa. The games have aired on Kwese TV and have averaged a viewership of over a million people.<a href="#cite_note-336">[334]</a> Nigeria made history by qualifying the first <a href="/wiki/Bobsled" class="mw-redirect" title="Bobsled">bobsled</a> team for the <a href="/wiki/Winter_Olympics" class="mw-redirect" title="Winter Olympics">Winter Olympics</a> from Africa when their women's two-person team qualified for <a href="/wiki/Bobsleigh_at_the_2018_Winter_Olympics" title="Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics">the bobsled competition at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games</a>.<a href="#cite_note-337">[335]</a> In the early 1990s, <a href="/wiki/Scrabble" title="Scrabble">Scrabble</a> was made an official sport in Nigeria; by the end of 2017, there were around 4,000 players in more than 100 clubs in the country.<a href="#cite_note-338">[336]</a> In 2018, the Nigerian Curling Federation was established to introduce a new sport to the country with the hope of getting the game to be a part of the curriculum at the elementary, high school, and university levels respectively. At the <a href="/wiki/2019_World_Mixed_Doubles_Curling_Championship" title="2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship">2019 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship</a> in Norway, Nigeria won their first international match beating France 8–5.<a href="#cite_note-339">[337]</a> Nigeria's women's and men's national teams in <a href="/wiki/Beach_volleyball" title="Beach volleyball">beach volleyball</a> competed at the <a href="/wiki/2018%E2%80%932020_CAVB_Beach_Volleyball_Continental_Cup" title="2018–2020 CAVB Beach Volleyball Continental Cup">2018–2020 CAVB Beach Volleyball Continental Cup</a>.<a href="#cite_note-340">[338]</a> The country's U21 national teams qualified for the 2019 <a href="/wiki/FIVB_Beach_Volleyball_U21_World_Championships" title="FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships">FIVB Beach Volleyball U21 World Championships</a>.<a href="#cite_note-341">[339]</a> Nigeria is the birthplace of the sport <a href="/wiki/Loofball" title="Loofball">loofball</a>.<a href="#cite_note-342">[340]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" 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class="references"> <li id="cite_note-9"><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/naɪˈdʒɪəriə/</a> <span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-1" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" data-ooui="{"_":"mw.Phonos.PhonosButton","href":"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/transcoded\/7\/72\/En-us-Nigeria.ogg\/En-us-Nigeria.ogg.mp3","rel":["nofollow"],"framed":false,"icon":"volumeUp","data":{"ipa":"","text":"","lang":"en","wikibase":"","file":"En-us-Nigeria.ogg"},"classes":["ext-phonos-PhonosButton","noexcerpt","ext-phonos-PhonosButton-emptylabel"]}"><a role="button" tabindex="0" href="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/72/En-us-Nigeria.ogg/En-us-Nigeria.ogg.mp3" rel="nofollow" aria-label="Play audio" title="Play audio" class="oo-ui-buttonElement-button"></a><a href="/wiki/File:En-us-Nigeria.ogg" title="File:En-us-Nigeria.ogg">ⓘ</a> <a href="/wiki/Help:Pronunciation_respelling_key" title="Help:Pronunciation respelling key">ny-JEER-ee-ə</a>; <a href="/wiki/Hausa_language" title="Hausa language">Hausa</a>: Najeriya <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style>Hausa pronunciation: <a href="/wiki/Help:IPA" title="Help:IPA">[nàː.(d)ʒéː.rí.jàː]</a> <span data-nosnippet="" id="ooui-php-2" class="ext-phonos-PhonosButton noexcerpt oo-ui-widget oo-ui-widget-enabled oo-ui-buttonElement oo-ui-buttonElement-frameless oo-ui-iconElement oo-ui-labelElement oo-ui-buttonWidget" 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href="/wiki/Fula_language" title="Fula language">Fula</a>: Naajeeriya, <a href="/wiki/Tyap_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Tyap language">Tyap</a>: Naijeriya </li> <li id="cite_note-201"><a href="#cite_ref-201">^</a> <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_weather_and_communications_satellites" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian weather and communications satellites">NigeriaSat-1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_weather_and_communications_satellites" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian weather and communications satellites">NigeriaSat-2</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nigerian_weather_and_communications_satellites" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian weather and communications satellites">NigeriaSat-X</a>, <a href="/wiki/NigComSat-1" title="NigComSat-1">NigComSat-1</a>, and <a href="/wiki/NigComSat-1" title="NigComSat-1">NigComSat-1</a>R </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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Newsweek. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200115191214/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/black-china-africas-first-superpower-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think/ar-BBYYOwW%3Focid%3Dspartanntp">Archived</a> from the original on 15 January 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2020.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Newsweek&rft.atitle=Black+China%3A+Africa%27s+First+Superpower+Is+Coming+Sooner+Than+You+Think&rft.date=2020-01-15&rft.aulast=Hill&rft.aufirst=Sam&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.msn.com%2Fen-us%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Fblack-china-africas-first-superpower-is-coming-sooner-than-you-think%2Far-BBYYOwW%3Focid%3Dspartanntp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ANigeria" class="Z3988"></li> <li>Dibua, Jeremiah I. Modernization and the Crisis of Development in Africa: The Nigerian Experience (Routledge, 2017)</li> <li>Ekundare, Olufemi R. An Economic History of Nigeria 1860–1960 (Methuen & Co Ltd, 1973)</li> <li>Falola, Toyin; and Adam Paddock. Environment and Economics in Nigeria (2012)</li> <li>Falola, Toyin, Ann Genova, and Matthew M. Heaton. Historical Dictionary of Nigeria (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://shcas.shnu.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/de/94/931b0247425ba03333178c9595d2/de98fbe8-46c3-487e-b684-9d5ba3760418.pdf">online</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220401062344/http://shcas.shnu.edu.cn/_upload/article/files/de/94/931b0247425ba03333178c9595d2/de98fbe8-46c3-487e-b684-9d5ba3760418.pdf">Archived</a> 1 April 2022 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></li> <li>Falola, Toyin, and Matthew M. Heaton. A History of Nigeria (2008)</li> <li>Shillington, Kevin. Encyclopedia of African History. (University of Michigan Press, 2005) p. 1401.</li> <li>Metz, Helen Chapin, ed. Nigeria: a country study (U.S. Library of Congress. Federal Research Division, 1992) <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.loc.gov/item/92009026/">online free</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201105154039/https://www.loc.gov/item/92009026/">Archived</a> 5 November 2020 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, comprehensive historical and current coverage; not copyright.</li> <li>Jones, Cunliffe-Peter. My Nigeria: Five Decades of Independence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)</li> <li>Achebe, Chinua. 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title="Corruption in Nigeria">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Economic_history_of_Nigeria" title="Economic history of Nigeria">Economic history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Energy_in_Nigeria" title="Energy in Nigeria">Energy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mining_industry_of_Nigeria" title="Mining industry of Nigeria">Mining</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_naira" title="Nigerian naira">Naira (currency)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petroleum_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Petroleum in Nigeria">Petroleum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_Stock_Exchange" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian Stock Exchange">Stock Exchange</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_in_Nigeria" title="Telecommunications in Nigeria">Telecommunications</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tourism_in_Nigeria" title="Tourism in Nigeria">Tourism</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transport_in_Nigeria" title="Transport in Nigeria">Transport</a></li></ul> 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labour in Nigeria">Child labour</a> (<a href="/wiki/Girl_child_labour_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Girl child labour in Nigeria">Girl child labour</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_marriage_in_Nigeria" class="mw-redirect" title="Child marriage in Nigeria">Child marriage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_Nigeria" title="Child sexual abuse in Nigeria">Child sexual abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corruption_in_Nigeria" title="Corruption in Nigeria">Corruption</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crime_in_Nigeria" title="Crime in Nigeria">Crime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Nigeria" title="Demographics of Nigeria">Demographics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nigerian_diaspora" class="mw-redirect" title="Nigerian diaspora">Diaspora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Domestic_violence_in_Nigeria" title="Domestic violence in Nigeria">Domestic violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_Nigeria" title="Education in Nigeria">Education</a></li> <li><a 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href="/wiki/9th_G-15_summit" title="9th G-15 summit">1999</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=10th_G-15_summit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="10th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">2000</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=11th_G-15_summit&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="11th G-15 summit (page does not exist)">2001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/12th_G-15_summit" title="12th G-15 summit">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/13th_G-15_summit" title="13th G-15 summit">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/14th_G-15_summit" title="14th G-15 summit">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/15th_G-15_summit" title="15th G-15 summit">2012</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Members</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Algeria" title="Algeria">Algeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argentina" 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title="Kazakhstan">Kazakhstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kuwait" title="Kuwait">Kuwait</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kyrgyzstan" title="Kyrgyzstan">Kyrgyzstan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lebanon" title="Lebanon">Lebanon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Libya" title="Libya">Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malaysia" title="Malaysia">Malaysia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maldives" title="Maldives">Maldives</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mali" title="Mali">Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mauritania" title="Mauritania">Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morocco" title="Morocco">Morocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mozambique" title="Mozambique">Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Niger" title="Niger">Niger</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Nigeria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oman" title="Oman">Oman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan" title="Pakistan">Pakistan</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakistan_and_the_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Pakistan and the Organisation of 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territories</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina" title="Bosnia and Herzegovina">Bosnia and Herzegovina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Northern_Cyprus" title="Northern Cyprus">Northern Cyprus</a>1</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thailand" title="Thailand">Thailand</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;padding-right:0.75em;font-weight:normal;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Muslim communities</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moro_National_Liberation_Front" title="Moro National Liberation Front">Moro National Liberation Front</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align:left;padding-right:0.75em;font-weight:normal;"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">International organizations</div></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economic_Cooperation_Organization" title="Economic Cooperation Organization">Economic Cooperation Organization</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arab_League" title="Arab League">Arab League</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement" title="Non-Aligned Movement">Non-Aligned Movement</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_Nations" title="United Nations">United Nations</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">History</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Declarations" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Declarations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Abuja_Declaration_(1989)" title="Abuja Declaration (1989)">Abuja Declaration (1989)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cairo_Declaration_on_Human_Rights_in_Islam" title="Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam">Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OIC_Resolution_10/11" title="OIC Resolution 10/11">OIC Resolution 10/11</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/OIC_Council_of_Foreign_Ministers_Resolution_10/37" title="OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37">OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Resolution 10/37</a> (2010)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sessions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Extraordinary" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Extraordinary</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/First_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="First Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">First</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Second_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Second Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Second</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Third Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Third</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fourth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Fourth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Fourth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fifth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Fifth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Fifth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sixth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Sixth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Sixth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seventh_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Seventh Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Seventh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eighth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Eighth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Eighth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ninth_Extraordinary_Session_of_the_Islamic_Summit_Conference" title="Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Islamic Summit Conference">Ninth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_Arab%E2%80%93Islamic_extraordinary_summit" title="2023 Arab–Islamic extraordinary summit">Arab–Islamic (2023)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Demographics</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Economy_of_the_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Economy of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Economy</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation_member_states_by_GDP_(PPP)" title="List of Organisation of Islamic Cooperation member states by GDP (PPP)">GDP</a></li> <li><a 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countries">Largest cities</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Education_in_the_member_states_of_the_Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation" title="Education in the member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation">Education</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div> <ul><li>1 As the "Turkish Cypriot State".</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox authority-control" 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