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Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country on the African continent. Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south, and has an area of 923,768 km². With an estimated 133,530,000 people as of 2005, Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa, and the ninth most populous country in the world. A founding member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, it is one of the top ten oil producers in the world, but has been wracked by violence in the oil-rich Niger Delta, where locals demand a larger share of petroleum profits. The country has a mix of religions, including Christianity, Islam, and traditional beliefs, as well as a variety of ethnic groups, such as the Hausa, Igbo, and Yoruba.
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Kano is the administrative center of the Kano State and the third largest city in Nigeria, in terms of geographical size, after Ibadan and Lagos. In population, it is the second most populous city in the country after Lagos. Originally controlled by the Hausa, the city, along with the other Hausa states, was seized by Fulani radicals during the early nineteenth-century Fulani War and captured by the British in 1903. The city's traditional ruler is the Emir of Kano, and the current Emir, Ado Bayero, has been on the throne since 1963. Kano's history is detailed in the Kano Chronicle.
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Umaru Musa Yar'Adua (born 1951 in Katsina, Katsina State, Nigeria) is the 2nd President of Nigeria's Fourth Republic. He served as governor of Katsina State in northern Nigeria between May 29, 1999 and May 28, 2007 . He was declared the winner of the controversial Nigerian general election of 2007, held on April 21, and was sworn in on May 29, 2007. He is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). (more...)
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- ...that Bayajidda, the mythical ancestor of the Hausa people, is said to have fathered three children with three different women?
- ...that of Nigeria's 521 languages, 9 are extinct and 2 are spoken only as second languages?
- ...that the Defaka people are gradually abandoning their language in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, their close neighbours?
- ...that the Area Boys are a gang of street children and teenagers who roam the streets of Lagos extorting money from passers-by?
- ...that at the time of his death in
1955, Kano
businessman Alhassan Dantata was the richest man in West
Africa? edit
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Abuja National Mosque, photographed during Harmattan. editNigeria News
- December 27, 2007: Mike Okiro, Inspector-General of Police, removes Nuhu Ribadu from his position as chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and orders him to attend a one-year training course in Jos, Plateau State.
- December 22, 2007: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) commences investigation of Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, Senator and daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, over a ₦3.5 billion contract dispute with an Austrian corporation.
- December 12, 2007: James Ibori, PDP member and former Delta State Governor, is arrested on corruption charges.
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