General Overview Of Nigeria

In this essay I will be talking about life in Nigeria.Nigeria is most famous for their delicious food and cultural style but they are also known for their resources such as their vast mineral resources. Nigeria is a country located in West Africa with a coast on the Gulf of Guinea .Nigeria capital is Abuja.Abuja is one of the capitals that was built for purpose.The governing body includes a number of 36 nations and Nigeria is mentioned in the constitution as a free democratic land.

The geographic location is Nigeria.Nigeria is the third largest country in the world with total area of 923,768 km2 and is situated in Africa, with a total area of 910,768 km2. It is similar to Venezuela’s size and about twice California’s state. In 1960, after gaining power from the United Kingdom, Nigeria works by itself. Nigeria had a population of 170,123,740 and 187 people per km2 of population in 2012. Nigeria people usually know that place as the giant of African , full of black nation on earth with over 150 million people. The country is known for buying, selling and producing. Nigeria, country is located on the western coast of Africa. Nigeria has a many different kinds of people and things,the study of mountains, rivers, hills and more. With weather ranging from average to humid areas close to the Equator.Hundreds of languages are spoken in the country, including Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, Hausa, Edo, Ibibio, Tiv, and English. The country has plentiful valuable things from nature, especially and famously large amounts of petroleum and natural oils.It is tropical, semi-arid in the far north and gradually rainier in Nigeria while heading to the south. Indeed, the rainy season is much longer and more intense from north to south due to the African monsoon. The rainy season in the northern part only lasts four months, June to September; it lasts in the centers from April to October; while in the southern part it lasts from March to October, like in Lagos, in Benin, in Port Harcourt. Finally, it runs from March to November in the south-east, which is the wettest area.At present, our country has many power plants, the majority of which came into existence after 1990. Different industry in the country has rapidly evolved and plants have been built, many of which are owned by companies in America, China and Europe which are not very interested in pollution problems in Nigeria. These ongoing issues are also not very careful by the government. As a result, the country’s pollution rate rose to 36 %. Nigeria has a wide variety of soil under various ecological conditions and fertility levels.The major soil types in Nigeria, according to The Food and Agriculture Organization soil taxonomy legends are fluvisols, regosols, gleysols, acrisols, ferasols, alisols, lixisols,and cambisols.These land could have been formed from wind-sorted desert sands which accumulated during long periods when the Sahara wilderness invaded its present boundaries several kilometers south.

The one object that really represent Nigeria is the flag of Nigeria it has a very simple design, but behind the design it has a considerable importance. The flag has three vertical strips, each of which has the same size as the next. The bands of the left and right are green, the middle is white. The green bands represent the nation’s natural riches, while the white band represent peace. The Nigerian flag has only 2 colours: green and white, as has already been mentioned. Green is a good thing, while white is a good thing. Several Nigerian flag variants exist. This includes the state flag, which has the same design but the arms of the nation are in the center. The carried out slave trade and finally acquired position Nigeria from the end of the 17th century. These countries had no national flags, so that there were no common symbols for the region due to the diversity of ethnic groups and religions. The first governor-general FD was founded at the time of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria in 1914. On different colonial flags, Lugard has chosen an emblem. A six-pointed green star, the Seal of Solomon, was placed upon a red disk. In the star appeared the royal crown and the name ‘Nigeria.’ The Nigerian state of Nigeria, which is 99th United Nations member, consists of 36 States and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, which is recognized internationally. Each of these 36 states has the power, in accordance with the Constitution of Nigeria, to establish and maintain a legal system to ensure justice on its assigned territory, so that each citizen and other person living in that territory can continue their legitimate daily activities.

The respect of Nigeria’s traditional institution, particularly among the political elite, has been growing steadily since independence. It was a new media account by the old journalist, Peter Enahoro, of the traditional title of Adolor of Uromi acquired in his brother, Honorable Anthony Enahoro, to avoid being laughed at as a mere ‘mister’ in the Western House of Assembly amongst the Members mostly ‘traditional leaders.’ Nigeria’s culture consists of 527 different languages in several ethnic groups. There are more than 1,150 ethnic groups and dialects. The Fulani, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba and Ijaw are some of the leading ethnic groups. Though higher concentrations of these groups live in the north or middle regions of Nigeria, minority ethnic groups live across the entire nation. Centuries ago, Igbo wore only modesty clothes, clothes were not used to show style or status. Your garb evolved over time. Most people today wear Western-style clothing, especially in urban areas. However, traditional clothing is still often worn in rural areas. Traditional women’s clothing is packaged, some designed for day-to-day activities and some for formal events. The formal wraps are more costly, often imported cloth. For everyday wear, men usually use wrappers of cotton, shirts and sandals. Formal wear for men is made of wraps made of better material than those used daily. Most clothing in Nigeria is made from an expert tie and a dye, which is a method where some part of a large white piece of cloth is firmly attached to a helmet or center of the cloth and different body sections, and then soaked in a wholesome colour. English is Nigeria’s official language. The language is used both in the preparation of laws and in the Nigerian judicial system for all formal government communication. English is also included as a teaching medium in the education system in Nigeria. The introduced the English language in Nigeria as a colonial rule. However, language is mainly used by residents in the urban areas of the country. Around 79 million Nigerians speak English, making Nigeria the world’s most populous English-speaking countries.

In 2015, the adult literacy rate for Nigeria reached a level of 59.6% compared to 51.1% in 2008. Total is the percentage of the 15-year-old population, who can read a short, simple statement on their daily lives with understanding. In general,’ literacy’ also includes’ numeracy,’ which allows simple arithmetical calculations to be made. The indicator is calculated by dividing and multiplying the results by 100 the number of students of 15 years of age and more by the respective age group.( Ask Yodatai,2008) The national women young adult literacy rate is 59.3 per cent, compared with 70.9 per cent for men, as reported in the Nigerian Statistics Digest of Education published by the FME. The publication also puts Nigeria’s national literacy rate at 65.1 %.(Abdussalam Amoo -30th July 2018)Literacy Rate of Nigeria is Youth is 66,384 percent of 15-24 age data in Dec 2008 reported. This is a decrease of 68.994 percent compared to the previous December 2003 figure. Nigeria’s Literacy Rate percentage of annual updates of 15 to 24-year-old data from December 1991 to 2008 at an average of 68.994 percent, with three observations. The data reached 71,189% all-time in 1991 and 66,384% in 2008. In addition, the figures are low. Nigeria’s Literacy rate of the 15-24 age population remains active in the CEIC.Covenant University is a private Christian Pentecostal University that has been officially operating in Ota, Nigeria since 2002. Covenant University, found in the Ethos Christian Mission, is one of the leading universities in Africa. The University is born and inspired with a vision to build up a new generation of leaders and restore the dignity of the Black race, and it is committed to remaining the leading player in the education of the entire human race.There is a bank of huge satellite dishes in the heart of Abuja, Nigeria’s federal capital. They are part of the land station— the place where five Nigerian satellites are connected in the orbit, the data stream they generate and the scientists who interpret them— which serves as Nigeria’s most visible space infrastructure.

The Nigerian naira is NGN.The Nigerian naira is divided into 100 kobo.For 2019 the dollar has an average of €361,630 minimum: €35,00 maximum: €366,058 Naira is the currency used in Nigeria. Naira is divided by average: €360,00 minimum: €35,000 maximum.(GMTMon, 6 May, 2019)With a population of over 180 million inhabitants, Nigeria has the largest market in Africa. In March 2016, PwC released its ‘Nigeria: Looking beyond Oil’ report to raise Nigeria’s world economy to the top ten by $6.4 trillion in 2050. There are numerous and diverse examples of such extrapolations. In a 2018 World Bank report in Nigeria, the launch of a business, construction allowances, registration of property, credit receipt and taxation improved. Nigeria has, therefore, begun to show signs of improvement with its ease of doing business. The Economic Complexity Index indicates that Nigeria is the 49th-largest global export economy and the 124th-largest economy. Nigeria exported 46,8 billion dollars, and imports 34,2 billion dollars in 2017, which resulted in a positive trade balance of 12,8 billion dollars. In 2017, Nigeria’s GDP was 375 billion dollars, and per capita GDP was 5.87 billion dollars. The Nigerian top exports were Crude Petroleum which cost $ 35.6B, Oil Gas which cost $ 6,47B and Rare Wood which cost $ 660 million with a 1992 review of the Harmonized System classification. Nigeria’s main exports were Crude Petroleum $ 774 million. Its top imports include Refined Petroleum which cost $ 6.27B, Cars which cost $ 1.73B, and Raw Sugar which cost $ 549 M. Other natural resources in Nigeria include natural gas, tin, iron ore, coal, calcareous, niobium, plum, zinc and arable soil as well as oil. The oil and gas industry accounts for about 10% of the gross domestic product, and oil exports accounted for about 83% of total export revenues. The naira is his currency. The large rivers and natural falls are given to Nigeria.( Reuben Kenrick Udo,Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene,J.F. Ade Ajayi,Toyin O. Falola,Apr 24, 2019 ) The Niger and Benue Rivers and Lake Chad Basin are the main water resources that provide rich hydropower potential. The water is not an impoverished country but is classified as economically a water rare country due to a lack of investment and management to meet demand, and has an estimated 1.800 m3 per year per capita of renewable water resources available. Forestry are a source of life; food, fruit, oils, medicine, drying, fuel wood, game, jobs and income for rural people; and environment for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity protection. Food safety is the state of food production autonomy achieved through the implementation of family food policy and agricultural food and raw material for industry, trade and export. Forests can make a substantial contribution to Nigeria’s food safety and poverty eradication. Nigeria has significant potential to produce high returns on manufacturing investment. There have been a series of incentives in the administration for launching and expanding activities in different industries such as agro processing, biofuels, cement and automobiles.

Born in North Nigeria, Mohammed was born. Nigeria is a poor country with no cooling. Mohammed is a teacher, but he invented a small cooling unit. It consists of two pots, one large and one small. There’s moist sand between the two pots. Wheat is removed from the inner part of the food when the water is evaporating. It’s longer for foods to last. Eggplants last for twenty-seven days, for only three days. This one helps the poor in Nigeria, among all of the inventions. Mohammed won an award of $75000 for a helpful invention. He doesn’t keep the cash for himself. He uses this to provide the poor with his invention in Nigeria. The son of H.R.H. Oba William Adekolawolu Olubummo II and Olori Abigael Osarayi Olubommo was Adengoke Olubummo’s first literary Olorin of Orin. As a child of high honor parents, he had a good education in Methodist schools, where in 1937 he worked as a pupil teacher (Ifaki Methodist School). Adegoke’s three children are mathematicians. They are all three. Yewande Olubummo, his daughter, is currently in the United States. Spelman College as an assistant professor of mathematics. I believe Abubakar was the first in mathematics at the University of London which is University College Ibadan in the 1950’s and finished his doctorate in the 60’s at the University of Cambridge in England. He was recognized as a top mathematician and at the early age of 28 became a full lecturer at Ahamdu Bello University in northern Nigeria. When he became Vice Chancellor of the University and eventually a Finance Minister, he suffered greatly from his university productivity. In the new Nigerian Parliament, he’s now a senator. Achebe joined the rest of Africa to celebrate the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for the 1986 Nobel prize for writer and playwright Wole Soyinka in 1986. The writing of Soyinka often concentrates on the oppression and exploitation by the strong of the weak. Neither the white speculator nor the black exploiter is spared in his criticism. In Nigerian politics, Wole Soyinka also played a major role, exposing him sometimes to huge personal risks. General Sani Abacha’s government 1993 through 1998, for example, declared him’ in absentia’ for a death sentence. He has worked on novels like Aké: Children’s and Death Years and the King’s Horseman.The Nigerian artist Davido was visitor to one of the most popular shows of the morning at Power 105.1’s The Breakfast Club last September. DJ Envy, one of the co-hosts said, ‘Ye got American people singing Nigerian music. But the notoriously skeptical co-host Charlamagne Tha God remained unimpressed while DJ Envy loved songs like ‘Fall’ and ‘If’ from Davido. ‘What’s that song? ‘They wondered about Charlamagne. Seven months on Davido has pushed Africans to a whole new level of global popularity–unweightful, polyrhythmic pop songs often played partly in English.

Any visit to Abeokuta town would have been incomplete without stopping at ‘Abeokuta Fortress’; Olumo Rock. No surprise, because the name ‘Abeokuta’ itself is ‘under the rock,’ which is a tourist attraction in Nigeria, this rock is situated in Abeokuta. For the people in Egba since the 19th century, Olumo Rock has long been a rock of offense and fortress. At Olumo Rock, attractions such as natural tunnels, unusual trees, natural cantilevers, rocky gardens and broken paths are treated.The Waterfalls of Gurara is located 76 km from Minna in the State of Niger .The fall was used to honor the goddess of water. But when some European people discovered the place and found it appropriate for leisure, sacrificial activities were stopped in the autumn.The Juju kind of music came about in the 1920’s and gained popularity around the 1950s with musicians such as Tunde Nightingale, C.A Balogun and J.O Araba. In that same decade, I.K. Dairo became the first international musical star in Nigeria. That height paved the way for other juju groups. In Nigeria, the country has been successful in this sport along with many other countries in which football is popular. Super Eagles, its national team, has regularly competed for international titles and has been recognized as one of the best teams in Africa, ranking 10th on the world stage, in global sport competitions. For more than two decades, Rashidi Yekini played Nigeria as the most notable striker. In his time, he was also the highest scorer.

Most Nigerians care very much about a family that is often made up of people connected with blood, marriage or adoption. The nuclear families consist of one man, a wife and unmarried children, and a large family usually comprising a number of nuclear families. There are two types of family, the nuclear families. Cultureally, most cultural groups in Nigeria have patrilinear descent, have patrilocal authority, and are generally patrilocent. The lives of vulnerable families in Nigeria are characterised by poverty, instability and HIV / AIDS. Some parts of the country are volatile and families must leave their homes and find security elsewhere. In such a harsh environment, as is often the case, children are at risk especially.The rate of ownership in Nigeria is low, down from those in Indonesia (84 %), Kenya (73 %) and South Africa (56 %). High-cost security and registering of secure land titles, insufficient access to finances, slow administrative procedures and high land costs continue to be the main problems in Nigeria. It is clear that Nigeria is still early in its mortgage finance industry, which focusses mainly on high revenue earners and largely excludes middle and low-income earners. The mortgage financing for the majority of Nigerians is not an option because of the lack of a strong land tenure and a strong financial system.( 30th January 2019, Shakrah Sadou ):Some marriage traditions are so ancient in culture that they have not been phased out over time. Some are still practiced until this day. The Igbo people’s dowry and bride price features a negotiation over a certain amount of money, which is usually not so much.

Mobile services in Nigeria have spread far faster than land. Mobile voice and text services have steadily increased since the late 1990s, combined with mobile Internet capacity from the early 21st century. Most internet links are made via mobile networks to this day. Mobile operators in Nigeria are abundant, with high market competition ensuring that customers can find reliable, competitive plans. The railways between Kadun and Lagos and Kadunas and Port Harcourt are connected in Nigeria from the north to the south. As there is no rail service to Abuja, Kaduna is the closest town. A proposed line for connecting Abuja to Kaduna is proposed and a high-speed service between Abuja and Lagos is planned. Kano and Maiduguri are also serviced north of Kaduna. The services are operated regularly by a national undertaking known as Nigerian Railway Company. All the routes contain new passenger coaches with first-class air conditioning and no cost-effective air conditioning. The longest line is 700 miles from Lagos to Kano. The oral communication was the interaction system in the area before the whiteman came to Igbo country. By collecting and disseminating important information among its people, the town crier played a very important part and served as an intermediary between the heads of the people and communicating their feelings.

Nigeria’s legal cover for social protection since its independence in 1960 has been very limited, with over 90% of the Nigerian population without health insurance coverage. Over the years, the system for health care has evolved as a result of health reforms designed to address the challenges it is confronted with.( Bolaji Aregbeshola on Sat, 10/02/2018) Nigeria has one of Africa’s biggest health human resource , but the number of nurses, midwives and doctors remains, like 57 other countries in the crisis, too low to provide critical health services effectively 1.95 per 1000). In recent years the foreign migration has decreased, with inadequate production and unequal distribution of health workers as the primary challenge for Nigeria.(“Nigeria.” World Health Organization, World Health Organization, 16 Apr. 2012).

The Nigerian Medical Insurance System which is shorted to NHIS. Any registered Member shall receive every month a bill for the money they owe irrespective of whether or not they have used NHIS services. The amount paid by every member depends on his ability to pay and someone who pays significantly less can be cared for as well as anyone who pays 10 times more. For Nigeria, the value was 104.30 in 2016 for a mortality rate of under 5 (per 1000 live births). The following chart shows that in the last 52 years this indicator in Nigeria reached a maximum value of 327.90 in 1964, with a minimum value of 104.30 in the year 2016. This indicator has reached a maximum value of 71.40 in 1967 over the past 49 years and a minimum value of 34.10.( (UNICEF, WHO, World Bank, UN DESA Population Division)

Since June when the Central Bank removed the currency pin, which had kept the US dollar at an artificially high level of approximately 198 NGN for more than one year, it has weakened against the US dollar. Right after the peg was dropped on 20 June, over 40% of the currency lost against USD and dropped to 282 NGN per US Dollar. Although the Central Bank committed itself to a free floating exchange regime, in the weeks following the devaluation, it intervened in the foreign currency market, keeping the naira within a limited range of NGN 282-285 a USD. In the middle of July, the Bank cut down its operations and made the naira further depreciate.(Thomson Reuteurs,2018)Nigeria continued to face an unstable flow of incomes at the turn of the 21st century, which the state tried to counter by borrowing from international sources, introducing or at the same time implementing various austerity measures. As a result, an ever increasing share of the national budget was required for repayment of debt, which meant that very little of Nigeria’s revenue was spent on the people and their needs because corruption dominated government operations.For all people aged 15 years and over, the global literacy rate is 86.3 %. The global rate of literacy is 90.0% for all men and is 82.7% for all women. The rate varies worldwide with developed countries at 99.2% in 2013; South and West Asia, at 70.2% and 64.0% in 2015 in Sub-Saharan Africa. In South Asia, Western Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa there are over 75 per cent of the 781 million illiterate adults worldwide, and women account for nearly ⅔ of all literate adults worldwide. The literacy rate was collected for Nigeria in 2008 and it reached 51.1 per cent in the case of 15 and older people.(Adetola Salau,2018)

After reading this,it has been proven that people in Nigeria are more than their clothes.I found out that the ladies clothing is packaged like it is full of bright colors that are nice and the clothing are very warm.I found out that the Egusi soup is really delicious,it has yams in it and we all know yams are good the Yoruba people love it .It seems like nigerian people like pounded yam because another one of their food Semovita has become a popular Nigerian food, and it also provides pounded yam with an another.Another thing that I found out is that Nigeria is also known for their resources.Nigeria famous resource is petroleum but there more resources like natural gas, tin, iron ore, coal, limestone, niobium, lead, zinc and arable land. Ther resource petroleum exports revenue represents almost 83 percent that alot in my point of view.