Nigeria Listen/naɪˈdʒɪəriə/, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Its coast in the south lies on the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba.
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Nigeria desperately needs scientific investment to tackle COVID-19
Nigeria, like other African countries, wasn’t spared from the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. To overcome this challenge, ...
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey attends Bitcoin meetup in Ghana
Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has attended a Bitcoin meetup in Ghana just weeks after he invested in a cryptocurrency ...
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How affordable agricultural technology is solving food insecurity in Nigeria
The global population is predicted to grow by 2 billion by 2050 and with more than half of that growth coming from Sub-Saharan ...
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WhatsApp played a big role in the Nigerian election — not all of it was bad
There is growing concern about the potential for the message and media sharing platform WhatsApp to undermine democracy in ...
