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Nigeria is a country with rich history and massive cultural heritage.
It is the largest among the African countries on the continent and ranks
7th by the size of its population in the world. Due to the history associated with
colonization, the question arises: Is Nigeria a Nation or not?
Overview
Nigeria is located in West Africa.
Its population is about 180 million people, and it increases constantly.
Growth of the population in this country is regular and childbirth is above
mortality in 2015.
The country's capital is the city of Abuja.
Nigeria is a developing country. It surpasses even South Africa Republic by the
GDP volume.
The most famous city in the country is Lagos.
The main language here is considered to be English, despite the abundance of smaller
ethnic groups (named tribes), who carefully preserve their history and heritage,
including the spoken ones.
The official currency is naira. It has its special sign designation in a form of letter “N”
horizontally double struck-through in the middle.
Historical facts
Initially, Nigeria was a British colony.
The country gained independence only in 1960.
In honor of this event,
Nigerian national day
now celebrated every
October 1st and
it is official day off.
Responding to a question,
is Nigeria a nation or a state,
now we can confidently reply that it is a country that has 36 states,
including phonetically consonant state named Niger.
Over a relatively short period of independent existence,
Nigeria managed to survive a variety of events, including political ones.
The country experienced the powerful political and military coups
just six years after gaining independence, in 1966, the officers of
the local Igbo tribe started the reformation process. Prior to the 1970s,
Nigeria also experienced a civil war: for three years,
there were fights and violent disputes in the country,
which entailed a change of whole governmental foundations.
The situation was very difficult with tribal differences.
In the elections of 1993, when the next governing of the "second republic"
came to the ending, a native from Yoruba tribe won –
one of the largest and best-known Nigerian tribes. However,
his power was not transferred because the military,
who held power at that time, were representatives of the northern people.
Later then, in 2003 and 2010, there were unauthorized outbreaks of
aggression from the population with the inevitable
assistance of military forces.
These actions were provoked not only by ethnic and religious differences.
Nigeria became a place of encounter between Christians and Muslims,
who could not come together in their ideologies.
Recently, in March of this year, Nigeria held elections, the last in
the history as for the moment.
The winner was Mohammad Buhari, who took the reins at the end of May.
The main milestones of the governing
As in many other countries, Nigeria as a nation has a formal system
of government as well as the common talk of "the real governmental system",
which controls all the
processes in the country.
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Officially, this country is a multi-parties republic, but there are lot of talks and
speculations about the real power of Democratic Party, which actually controls
everything that happens.
The country has a bicameral assembly – upper and lower chambers separated on the
Senate and the Management Board. The centrists took majority of seats, and
representatives of the Conservatives sit in the chambers.
Proposal was rejected in the Senate about ten years ago to amend the rules for
selecting the president: the possibility of a petition to be elected for three consecutive
terms was turn away and it was limited to two, as before.
Further More:
The main nationalities are tribes of:
- Yoruba,
- Igbo,
- Hausa,
- Fulani.
Overall there are 370+ tribes in
this country with 500+ languages,
making it one of the top multi-languages countries of the world.
The country actively develops cinematography. Interestingly that the name of
the world-famous Hollywood studios was transformed into a "Nollywood"
In this region. There are also some famous stars of one possesses fancy houses
and huge bank accounts in the most prestigious place in the country – the city of
Lagos. The annual output of motion pictures is fantastic – Nigeria is in second
place in a world! Only India is ahead of the list.
The main sources of income for the country are:
- oil production,
- film making,
- travel industry,
- agriculture,
- footwear production,
- services,
- energy,
- raw mining.
Summarizing all the above, we may say that Nigeria is very interesting
country to explore,
especially if you are a tourist. It combines modern technologies and good
loyalty to the
traditions, the desire to evolve and move forward,
and the aspiration to preserve
the memory of our roots. Is Nigeria a nation? Undoubtedly,
Nigeria is a country
that should be, if not seen or traveled, but at least to
reports and articles.
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