NIGERIA

NIGERIA

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising Thirty-Six States and One Federal Capital Territory. The capital city is Abuja. The Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba are the three largest and most influential ethnic groups in Nigeria.

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 name Nigeria was created from a portmanteau of the words Niger and Area, taken from the River Niger running through Nigeria. This name was coined by Flora Shaw, the future wife of Baron Lugard, a British colonial administrator, in the late 19th century.