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Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising thirty-six states and one Federal Capital Territory. 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 lies on the Gulf of Guinea, a part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the south. The capital city is Abuja. The three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria are the Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. The people of Nigeria have an extensive history, and archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area dates back to at least 9000 BCE.[3] The Benue-Cross River area is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu migrants who spread across most of central and southern Africa in waves between the 1st millennium BCE and the 2nd millennium CE. The name Nigeria was created from a portmanteau of the words Niger and Area, taken from the River Niger running th...

Angry Mob Monday morning burnt to death three suspected kidnappers at Dutse Alhaji area in Abuja, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. The suspects were three young men and a female victim, who has been rushed to Kubwa General Hospital for treatment. At the scene of the incident, a Vehicle Inspection Office (VIO) officer, Mr. Aminu Umar, told NAN that the incident happened at about 8:00 a.m. when a lady inside a moving vehicle was heard screaming for help. “The lady was suddenly pushed out of the vehicle while screaming. A motorist, who saw what had happened, pulled over in front of the vehicle and blocked it under the Dutse Bridge. “From there, Okada riders (motorcyclists) surrounded the vehicle and told them to come out. “They asked them if the vehicle was one chance (kidnappers) and the next thing, they started beating them and eventually put fire on them and the vehicle,” he said. Mr. Sylvanus Ekpenyong, Route Commander, Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) sa...

An 18-year-old female student, Mary, of Fazir-I-Omar Senior High School in Iwaya area of Yaba, Lagos State, has narrated how one of her male teachers slept with her (0ral s*x) in order to pass his subject. Mary Speaks: (student) “When I first got to Fazir-I-Omar Senior High School in 2016, I was in SS1. The teacher was the first to come to my class. He is feared by many of us. “I was seated in the second seat in the third row in a class of about 100 pupils. Anytime he was teaching, he would throw a marker at anyone of us to answer a quiz.” “one day, He threw the marker at me but as i couldn’t answer the question, he flogged me with a cane. Afterwards, He told us that the syllabus for the first term was voluminous and that each student must pay N30 each for him to make photocopies for them. He made me In-charge of collecting the money and accounting for the names of pupils who had paid, after which he would make the photocopies and give me to distribute to my classmates. During my s...

It was 18 years ago —The year 2001, and everything was quite Topsy-Turvy in Nigeria — The Nation was still smarting from the Y2K scare that the world was going to come to an abrupt End. and all computers would stop functioning at the exact strike of midnight on the 31st of December, 1999. I remember arguing with a lad....the young boy said that after year 2000, the next year gonna be year 3000  In fact, It was an era which Doomsday prophets went gaga, milking an ignorant populace from their brisk and dark businesses as they went around screaming the world was going to end.....Chaiiii ii  Nigeria was also experiencing the post-delivery pangs of democracy having just regained freedom from stifling military rule in 1999 following General Sani Abacha’s sudden and mysterious death. ....But away from all these superficial trivia,...there were more disturbing issues heating up the polity and one of the most nerves tangling of these was insecurity Insecurity ...