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In Nigeria, Sharia has been instituted as a main body of civil and criminal law in twelve Muslim-majority states since 1999, when then- Zamfara State governor Ahmad Sani Yerima [1] began the push for the institution of Sharia at the state level of government. A "declaration of full Sharia law" was made in the twelve states in that year, and the ...
Tunde Onakoya (born 6 October 1994) is a Nigerian chess player and coach, who holds the Guinness World Records for the longest marathon chess game, and founder of Chess in Slums Africa. He has organised a number of interventions for children across slums in Lagos state including Majidun , Makoko and recently, Oshodi. The children are engaged in ...
Hindus of Indian origin. Nigeria has around 800,000 Indian-Nigerians [3] with Indians being the largest racial minority in the country. Most of the Indian community in Nigeria is Hindu. India and Nigeria were both part of the British Empire. Indians were brought to Africa by the British to build the rail network in Africa.
Nigeria, We Hail Thee is the national anthem of Nigeria, formerly used from independence in 1960 until 1978. Arise, O Compatriots, was then adopted as Nigeria's national anthem in 1978 and used until 2024. "Nigeria, We Hail Thee" was officially readopted on 29 May 2024, replacing "Arise, O Compatriots".
BBC Yoruba is the Yoruba language service of the BBC World Service meant primarily for the Yoruba-speaking communities in Nigeria, Benin Republic, Togo and Yoruba speakers in diaspora. [1] [2] It is part of the 12 new language services incorporated by the BBC World Service. The other languages are Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean ...
Business tycoon. politician. publisher. philanthropist. Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola GCFR, also known as M. K. O. Abiola ( // ⓘ; 24 August 1937 – 7 July 1998) was a Nigerian businessman, publisher, and politician. He was the honorary supreme military commander of the Oyo Empire [a] and an aristocrat of the Egba clan.
Kidnapping for ransom on a commercial scale became rampant in Nigeria in 2011 spread across all the 36 states and the country's capital, Abuja. In February 2021, Nigerian journalist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani wrote for the BBC News, "The Nigerian government seems to have suggested that it can no longer be relied on to keep citizens safe."
v. t. e. Corruption is an anti-social attitude awarding improper privileges contrary to legal and moral norms and impairs the authorities' capacity to secure the welfare of all citizens. [1] Corruption in Nigeria is a constant phenomenon. In 2012, Nigeria was estimated to have lost over $400 billion to corruption since its independence.