Interesting Facts About Nigeria

Interesting Facts About Nigeria

Interesting Facts About Nigeria-We're journeying into the continent of Africa and exploring the federal republic of Nigeria commonly known simply as Nigeria, it's a land filled with music and colors and beautiful people.

I wanted to give you guys facts about Nigeria, for a long time a lot of you guys requested it so now Let's take a look when we get into the facts . I want to know when you think of Africa, what's the first thing that comes to mind for me?

It's the food, my goodness, so good all your Nigerians reading this know exactly what I'm talking about now.

 The name Nigeria Where did it even come from?

Nigeria get this name from the river Niger and that actually is the largest river in West Africa, the name was coined by a late 19th century British journalist named Flora shaw, now the River covers a distance of 2600 Miles and runs into the Atlantic Ocean via the gulf of guinea after it passes through a huge Delta known as the Niger Delta.

 Now the Niger Delta is the second largest Delta in the world Nigeria is also a very multicultural place there are over 500 ethnic groups in Nigeria and the three largest of those are xhosa, iGbo and Yoruba but not just multicultural is also Multilingual.

Nigeria has 7% of the total amount of languages spoken on Earth although the official language in Nigeria is English, There's also 600 Distinct language groups there, so it's very multicultural very multilingual, but when it comes to religion, There's like three of them all right not just three of them, but they have three basic religions And that's Islam Christianity and the traditional religion.

 Islam is prevalent in the Northern part of Nigeria Christianity is heavily practiced in the Eastern part of Nigeria as well as in the middle of the country and we have the traditional religion according to history Islam was introduced to Nigeria by a trader from Mali and Christianity was introduced by British missionaries.

This Nigeria is also at times considered to be the giant of Africa, Why? So let's take a look Nigeria has a very large population and economy.

It's the most populous of black nation in the Earth as well as a seventh most Populous country in the world, with a population of a hundred and eighty nine Million people and did you also know that nearly half the population Of Nigeria is younger than 15 years old?

The yoruba ethnic group has the highest rate of twins in the world Igbo-Ora which is a little town in the oil state has been nicknamed the twin capital of the world because of its unusual High birth rate for Twin, the estimated it's about one hundred and fifty eight twins per 1000 births, Yeah That's pretty high.

Now many people do speculate that this high birth rate is due to the large consumption of yam by Nigerians What was it again? That's just a rumor yams are good for you. Though eat your yams. I love some food. 

Despite its large population Nigeria is still largely a rural country only 48 percent of the population actually live in cities, the walls of Benin constructed from 800 to 1400 ad is located in the present edo state these walls are the largest ancient earthwork in the world and probably the largest man-made Structure on Earth, they enclosed 6,500 square kilometers of land and they're over sixteen thousand kilometers long.

 Originally the walls of Benin were thought to be twice as long as the great wall of China however back in 2012 after very careful Measuring it was announced that you know the great wall of China is still the longest wall ever and that measures that 21,000 kilometers long.

According to the world Resources institute Nigeria is home to four thousand seven hundred and fifteen different types of plant species and over five hundred and fifty species of Breeding Birds And mammals.

Now let's talk about the movie industry in Nigeria the movie industry dubbed Nollywood is the second biggest movie industry in the world,  I thought I Did not see the fire when you find now that is in terms of production of movies first We have Bollywood in India, then Nollywood in Nigeria and then Hollywood in America.

And in fact Nollywood produces up to 50 movies a week that in terms of the output that is over a thousand movies Annually.

So check out these numbers 0 1 0 1 0 1 those numbers actually refer to the meals of the day, So if you have 0 1 0 it means that you get breakfast and dinner But you have lunch and if you have 1 0 1 that means you have breakfast and dinner, but you skip lunch.

We know that Nigeria has a very rich culture and a huge economy, but who's the richest person in Nigeria? Here's the Nigerian billionaire Alico Dangote, is always better to be humble.

He is estimated to be worth 12.1 billion dollars according to the latest report he's a CEO of the dangote group and currently he's 59 years old, now this brings us to the end of our first journey of Nigeria definitely tons more to know about Nigeria.

Monday 8 January 2018 Information