| Official
Name : |
FEDERAL REPUBLIC
OF NIGERIA |
| Land
Area: |
923,768
square kilometres |
| Population: |
155,216,000
( 2011 estimate). |
| Languages: |
English
(official), Hausa, Yoruba, Ibo, others. |
| Religions: |
Muslim 50%, Traditional 10%, Christian 40%. |
| Capital: |
Abuja.
population 1.857million |
| Currency: |
niira
pula, divided into 100 kobos. |
| Independant: |
30
September 1966, from United Kingdom. |
| Geography: |
Nigeria comprises of 4 mail areas,the narrow sandy coastal strip, characterised by mangroves, lagoons and waterways dominated by the Niger Delta. Inland, a tropical rainforest belt that rises northward, opening out onto the semiarid central savannah Plateau. (Jos plateau. |
| Flag: |
Nigeria became a Federation in 1954 and in 1960 acheived independence as a constitutional Monachy within the British commonwealth. |
