Nigeria officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. 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 in the…

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Name Ethnicity Religion Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Hausa Muslim Major-General Johnson Thomas Umunankwe Aguiyi-Ionsi Igbo Christian General Yakubu Cinwa Gowon Ngas Christian General Murtala Ramat Muhammed Hausa Muslim General Olusegun Matthew Aremu Obasanjo Yoruba Christian Alhaji Shehu Shagari Fulani Muslim Major-General Muhammadu Buhari Fulani Muslim General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida Gwari Muslim Chief Ernest Shonekan…

By Misty Showalter, CNN, July 16, 2010 Segun Gele poses with ladies wearing his headtie creations Story Highlights • Gele has been worn by Nigerian women for decades, but has recently become more fashionable • He gained popularity for tying headwraps when he offered to do it for a woman at a friend’s wedding •…

History is being made once again as Nigerian born Dr. Isa Odidi and Dr. Amina Odidi, one of Canada’s top pharmaceutical scientists and prolific inventors and their pharmaceutical company Intellipharmaceutics have been invited by a stock exchange based in the United States of America (NASDAQ) to ring the opening bell before trading begins in New…

DUBLIN, Ireland – Ireland elected its first black mayor Thursday, the latest sign of how rapid immigration is changing this once all-white nation. Rotimi Adebari, a Nigerian who arrived in Ireland seven years ago as an asylum-seeker, was elected unopposed to lead the council of Portlaoise, a bustling commuter town west of Dublin. Adebari, 43,…

Dick Tiger CBE (born Richard Ihetu August 14, 1929 – December 14, 1971) was a boxer from Amaigbo, Nigeria, was a migrant fighter to Liverpool (and later to America). Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group. Tiger was a talented boxer, commercial venturer, and Biafran rebel. His boxing career record was: Fought 81;…

A five-year-old Nigerian girl, who has not yet started primary school, is being hailed as the youngest person ever to pass a GCSE with a C grade in maths. Desiree Alli, from Southwark, south London, set a new record for childhood academic success. Desiree, known as Dee, prepared for the foundation level examination by playing…