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Under foreign relations, military should be militarily.

Under the relations tab, military should be militarily. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Draighnean (talk • contribs) 04:21, 9 March 2010 (UTC)

Population

The total number of Nigiria by un.org may be differed with number by CIA? Newone (talk) 03:50, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

Nigerians have proven to be fat and the worst of all of the horrible races of Africans. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6043:23:4183:43FD:C833:832C (talk) 23:34, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

IGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH. Nigerian pidgin english the the most widely spoken language in Nigeria, although non official it is spoken in every state in Nigeria,sometimes in different dialects. Many have argued that it shoul be made an official language as 80% of Nigerians can speak it and most of the 20% that cannot speak it, do not speak any english at all. Pidgin english,or broken english as it is usually refferd to by speakers is first language to about 25 million Nigerians and second language to the majority of the population. it is very similar to the Krio spoken by the people of Sierra leone. There are special people in Pi global like Rotimi Osinowo,Robert Amamize,Nompumelelo Dlova and many more who help with the company Examples: wetin dey happen for hia /wetin dey pa for hia /wetin dey happen na this place- what is

                                                                             happening here

bobo- boy tile/titi/girl- girl you wan start wahala for hia- do you want to start a problem here? the people dem wey dey there dey vex me no be small- those people there are annoying me she don get belle- she is pregnant breast-bobbi talk-yarn siddon hia- sit down here you no sey i no dey go that side again- do you know i dont go there anymore —Preceding unsigned comment added by Chichiwill (talk • contribs) 17:04, 24 March 2010 (UTC)

Edit request

Under section 4, in the list of States, "1. Abuja" should be removed, as it is not a state, and comes under the jurisdiction of FCT Abuja which is stated below the list of states. There are 36 states, PLUS FCT Abuja. Please change accordingly. (Imran7 (talk) 16:29, 15 July 2010 (UTC))

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nIGERIAN PIDGIN ENGLISH IS A RECOGNISED MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IT IS NOT OFICIAL THOUGH, BUT IS VERY RECOGNISED.

Chichiwill (talk) 17:40, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

We require references to reliable sources. Also, a specific description of the request, that is, specific text that should be removed and a verbatim copy of the text that should replace it. "Please change X" is not acceptable and will be rejected; the request must be of the form "please change X to Y".  Chzz  ►  23:49, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

 Not done

nigeria

All places in africa are poor but a place called nigeria is a little bit poor but at the same time there also rich . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.146.91.186 (talk) 11:08, 3 April 2010 (UTC)

% Christian and Muslim

According to this recent survey 46% of Nigerians are Christian while 52% are Muslim. please amend the artice. http://pewforum.org/newassets/images/reports/sub-saharan-africa/sub-saharan-africa-full-report.pdf

== NIGERIAN RELIGIONS ==To the article above

PEW FORUM SURVEY concluded their assessment of Nigerian religions in 2009,here was their finding,Muslims constituted 50.4% of the population in nigeria(78 million) not 52% so stop lying.(MUSLIMS 52%(Dubious figure)christians 46%(Dubious figure).YOUR WEB ADDRESS SHOWED SOMETHING ELSE, LIAR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.122.247.34 (talk) 13:27, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

Would the Canadian IP please be civil and have a look at page 20 of the Pew Forum report. The Pew Forum's estimate is indeed 46% Christian / 52% Muslim. --Ankimai (talk) 11:43, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Christian Muslim population in Nigeria is wrongly represented by you sir. i dont know where you source information from. there are more Christians in Nigeria than Muslims. A small prove right now is the fact that, there are 21 Governors who are Christians and only 15 Governors who are Muslims. Please correct that information and if you don't know how to get the right info. get in touch with me and i will put you through with facts and figures. you can reach me on danamine2@yahoo.com or call me on +2348036159661.

thanks DanAuta

I AGREE WITH DanAuTA "THERE ARE MORE CHRISTIANS IN NIGERIA THAN MUSLIMS: PLEASE CHECK YOUR SOURCE AND CORRECT IT: FOR HELP YOU CAN GO TO THE WORLD BANK DATABASE, THE NIGERIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS AND OTHER SOURCES. THAT INFORMATION IS FALSE. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.14.205 (talk) 02:26, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Most christain governors are there by sheer accident and rigging. take Gov Yakowa for instance. and the source link here used for the nations religious data is a purely christain site, its data can not be trusted or correlated. i think Wikipedia should be impartial. more than half of yoruba's are muslims, 90% of Hausa's are muslims, a sizable number from Edo in the south-south are muslims, what are you left with? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aminu1988 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 30 December 2011 (UTC)

It should be noted that the numbers used on this article don't even make scence. Usually, only one religionis counted per person, so a total of over 100% doesn't occur. Also, the percentages of Christian denominations don't add up to the percentage total given. And yes, there are more Christians than Mus Ims in Nigeria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakreiser (talk • contribs) 01:19, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

The Nigeria Article

There is an error I notice on the Nigeria article. Nigeria is written in some major ethnic languages. Unfortunately, where it is specified as the Hausa version is actually not Hausa, but Arabic. I find this disturbing, because Nigeria is not an arabic nation why write it in arabic and interprete it to Hausa? I think immediate correction should be made. In Hausa it is (Nijeriya) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.218.195.51 (talk) 09:26, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Done. Wizzy…☎ 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Odugudes, 6 May 2010

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Under Government and Politics subheading of the entry on Nigeria, former President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua is identified as the "current" president. Please change the word "current" to "past" or "former" President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. This is under the fourth paragraph of the subsection. Thank you.

Odugudes (talk) 23:30, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

 Fixed. I Removed the sentence "and is led by the current President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua" altogether. Sorry for the inconvenience with the semi-protection, jonkerz♠ 23:56, 6 May 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Hein H, June 2 and June 3 2010

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In the sentence "In the northern part of the country, Kano and Katsina had recorded history dateing back to around 999. Hausa kingdoms and the Kanem-Bornu Empire prospered as trade posts between North and West Africa. "

The word "dateing" is misspelled.

I suggest that these two sentences could be replaced with

"In the northern part of the country, the cities Kano and Katsina have recorded histories dating back to approximately 999. The Hausa kingdoms and the Kanem-Bornu Empire prospered as trading posts between North and West Africa. "

Hein H. June 2&3, 2010 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.235.179.169 (talk) 13:14, 2 June 2010 (UTC)

Contradicting statement

The link at the top states that Nigeria is the third largest economy in Africa, but clicking on the link shows Nigeria is in fact the second largest. Someone please amend this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.111.74.220 (talk) 17:13, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from Daremu, 30 August 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} Early History, Line 13: There is nothing to support the following statement in the cited reference[12]: "Arguably the most powerful and prominent kingdom in the whole of Nigeria's history was also located in southwestern Nigeria, the Kingdom of Benin." I suggest it be re-written as follows: "Arguably one of the most prominent kingdom in Nigeria's history was also located in southwestern Nigeria, the Kingdom of Benin."

To call Benin Kingdom the most powerful in the whole of Nigeria's history is not only bias but exaggerative and distortion of history. Daremu (talk) 02:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC) Daremu (talk) 02:35, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

 Done Thanks, Stickee (talk) 03:06, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from ItBePenguinYo, 4 September 2010

{{editsemiprotected}} There are numerous spelling errors in Nigeria's science and technology section. Please change the numerous "lunched" and "satelite" to "launched" and "satellite". If you could also change the phrase "has being met" to "has been met" and the word "yeilded" to "yielded". In the second paragraph of the early history section, if you could change it as well, from "dateing" to "dating".

ItBePenguinYo (talk) 19:20, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Done I've made these corrections, and also removed the first line of 'Science and Technology'. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Intelligentsium 22:13, 4 September 2010 (UTC)

Nigerian Religions with false figures

The figures of Nigerian Religions have been wrongly edited by User:IBB 2007.My references are still on the recently changed figures which are false. Thanks..Earlymen (talk) 1:37,04 October 2010 (UTC)

Idont know where wiki gets its information from, Nigeria's Economy is the second largest in africa. Please update your page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tegh7 (talk • contribs) 03:05, 27 November 2010 (UTC)

The claim that people are abandoning Islam and Christianity is not supported. Nigeria actually still has one of the greatest rates of growth of both in the world. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.24.48 (talk) 04:42, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

oil related killings? shell?

hi all,

i am trying to learn more about nigeria, and am watching this video [1]. i cannot see related information in this article? is that an accidental omission, or is there a NPOV issue with this article?

188.2.169.209 (talk) 23:34, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

I would like to work in Nigeria as a civil engineer, it is good for working in Nigeria? what kind of problem can be occur in working Nigeria? i can work with my family?

My suggestion: Split the article

I think this article is too long. For downloading might be no problem, but when we want to edit from the beginning of the article it might be come with problem to download and mainly for uploading. If I have the opportunity I will split it. The Category:Articles to be split is also not yet stated. Gsarwa (talk) 16:30, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Crime in Nigeria

The statement that 'Nigeria is home to a substantial network of organized crime, active especially in drug trafficking' has no basis. While some Nigerians are involved in smuggling drugs, there is no trade in or demand for heroin within Nigeria. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/misc/economic.htm

Confraternities or sororities that were in Nigerian universities up to the 1970s are no different from similar student bodies around the world and are nonviolent. The so called pirate fraternity was founded by Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka. http://www.nas-int.org/

Violent campus cults, latter phenomenon, have been banned from universities since 1980’s and cannot reasonably be said to be ‘active in both organized crime and in political violence’. On the whole, the article is malicious, full of exaggerations and ridiculous bias and should be deleted. Kiibaati (talk) 20:21, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

As for the campus cults: Cult clashes still make the news, don't they? (5 killed, others injured in cult clash, Daily Sun, 17 January 2011 ; How cultists prepared to set Benin on fire, Vanguard, 22 January 2011) - Ankimai (talk) 12:57, 24 January 2011 (UTC)

Word population rankings

Here, Nigeria is stated as being the eighth most populous country in the world - but List of countries by population puts it as being seventh. I shall be extremely grateful if some one can sort this contradiction out. Many thanks, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:17, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

please edit picture caption. vandalism

The caption with a depiction of Igbo men contains an obscentity.... I know you guys typically are very vigilante about the quality of the articles and I appreciate it but the caption needs cleaning. Thanks you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alaniyonu (talk • contribs) 20:11, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

Offensive Language

{{Edit semi-protected}} In the section "Ethno-linguistic groups" there are 3 photos. Beneath the center photo is the caption "Igbo nigger men." Please remove the word "nigger" from the caption so that it simply reads "Igbo men".Faqchequer159 (talk) 22:49, 12 March 2011 (UTC)

 Done. Just vandalism. Removed now. Stickee (talk) 01:19, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Northern VS Southern Nigeria

Edit request: in the box with country information, in the "Independence" section, the links to Southern and Northern Nigeria should be changed from:

Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and Protectorate of Northern Nigeria

to

Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate

As you can see, this is a problem particularly with the Northern link, because it links to another article (about the historical region, not the protectorate) --134.151.0.76 (talk) 14:15, 9 April 2011 (UTC)

Art in Nigeria

It would be useful to add an art section (the specific page would be Art in Nigeria). Just as a reference to prepare the session and the specific article, among the most well-known scholars specialized in the art of Nigeria (ref. Sidney Kasfir in H-AfrArts, H-Net Network for African Expressive Culture) there are Simon Ottenberg, Joanne Eicher, John Picton, Phil Peek, Herbert Cole, Obiora Udechukwu, Chike Aniakor, Uche Okeke, Jill Salmons, Lisa Aronson, Marla Berns, Ted Celenko, Richard Fardon, Jean Borgatti, Martha Anderson, Babatunde Lawal, Henry Drewal, Margaret Thompson Drewal, Joe Nevadomsky. --Iopensa (talk) 08:27, 27 April 2011 (UTC)

Legal system

The article has the following:

There are four distinct systems of law in Nigeria:

• English law which is derived from its colonial past with Britain;
• Common law, a development of its post colonial independence;

This doesn't make sense to me. It suggests that English law existed first in Nigeria, without Common law. How is that possible? --Rob (talk) 14:49, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

"economy" section is one-sided, practically written from WTO perspective

Nigeria is an extreme case of resource curse. Despite having one of the richest reserves of natural resources in the world, it has long been in many ways similar to pre-Chavez Venezuela, where an arguably rather corrupt elite hoards all of the goods from the resources in question, leaving mass amounts of poverty to fend for themselves with little or no social investment. Nigeria and old Venezuela are basically in a resource curse category of their own in this sense, as states with such ridiculous amounts of richness in resources, that from a humanistic and economic perspective there is simply no excuse for the sheer amount of poverty visited on so many millions. Even the corrupt oil states of the middle east, replete with hoarding by their own elites, at least do *something* for the rest of the population in terms of actually substantial subsidies. In addition to the issue of elite hoarding, there is also the very significant issue of odious debt and the complicity of the global North in such a backwards national debt situation. I know I sound a bit polemical but I needless to say I am not the only person who sees it like this -- see the informative parts on Nigeria in the book "A Continent for the Taking: the Tragedy and Hope of Africa" by Howard W. French. All I ask is that the "economy" section actually *mention* the large amounts of poverty that exist, particularly in the megaslums of Lagos, despite the incredible wealth of resources. As of now, the economy section only mentions how resource-rich the country is, and gives the incredibly misleading impression that the entire economy has benefited from this, as all sorts of statistics about the general economy's growth are listed, with really no mention of the high endemic poverty in the "economy" section aside from mentioning an amount of money that has been vaguely appropriated for poverty reduction (as of yet, an apparently futile appropriation). In terms of resources, needless to say, Nigeria is a rich country, a very rich one -- it's just that this wealth has been systematically hoarded by elites and kept from the people, in a system kept in place by odious debt, just like in pre-Chavez Venezuela. It's what Castro referred to as an "oil-poor" nation; the West makes more money by importing and consuming Nigerian oil than the bulk of Nigerians make from their nation's production of it. And by the way, this is quite obviously the reason for the insurgency, which gets so prevalent a mention on the page as if they were some satanic force that came out of nowhere, with absolutely no legitimate socioeconomic grievances or economic background to their situation. 173.3.41.6 (talk) 21:54, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

Naija

Maybe you could mention why Naija redirects here. I dont understand. --91.115.111.219 (talk) 22:41, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Cities

Nigeria has six cities with a population of over 1 million people (from largest to smallest: Lagos, Kano, Ibadan, Kaduna, Port Harcourt, and Benin City). Lagos is the largest city in sub-Saharan Africa, with a population of over 8 million in its urban area alone. Population of Nigeria's cities over a million are listed below
But then, there is 8 cities on the list with population over 1 million. 85.217.40.33 (talk) 03:51, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

• • • It is to my besument that the second largest city in nigeria has not been mentioned anywhere on this website. The second largest city in Nigeria is a city called Ekpon, which is located between in the delta region of the country. With a popoulation of 12'531'234 (2011) it is the 2nd largest city in the country. Boasting well tarmaced roads, an efficient drainage and water recycling centre, and the only city in Nigeria to be powered by nuclear energy, Thorium.

It's current Governor is the well known and highly respected Joood Errmohari. A billionaire businessman who has invested billions in the infrastructure of the city *** — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.98.23.70 (talk) 14:24, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

Now that I've looked further onto this, it is quite a mess. For example Kano has populations as:

City 365,525

Metro 2,828,861

But it is still called city in Nigeria#Population_of_major_cities. And the 3.8 million figure is nowhere in Kano article. Seems that also Kaduna and Port Harcourt have their metropolitan areas in the list, not city. Port Harcourt does not even have the population of city in its article, only urban & metro. From what I checked from Nigerian cities articles, there actually just six cities with over a million (from largest to smallest): Lagos, Ibadan, Calabar, Ogbomoso, Maiduguri and Benin City. Only #1, #2 and #6 are same than the six cities. 85.217.35.215 (talk) 17:32, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Government and Politics

Under the government and politics, it is stated on wikipedia "The major political parties at present include the ruling People's Democratic Party of Nigeria which maintains 223 seats in the House and 76 in the Senate (61.9% and 69.7% respectively); the opposition All Nigeria People's Party under the leadership of Muhammadu Buhari has 96 House seats and 27 in the Senate (26.6% and 24.7%)". This information is wrong and outdated. Muhammadu Buhari is no longer a member of All Nigeria People's Party, He is now the leader of Congress for Progressive Change( CPC) and the biggest opposition party is now Action Congress of Nigeria by virtue of the number of seats it holds in the House and senate.see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Senators_of_the_7th_National_Assembly and the official site of nigeria national assembly http://www.nassnig.org/nass/Princ_officers_all.php?title_sur=Sen. The editor in charge of the article show please update the article as it is grossly outdated or the article should be unlocked to enable it to be updated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.206.15.18 (talk) 06:05, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

I removed his name, no leader is mentioned in that sentence for the other party. Chipmunkdavis (talk) 09:37, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

File:Nigeria coat of arms.png Nominated for Deletion

An image used in this article, File:Nigeria coat of arms.png, has been nominated for deletion at Wikimedia Commons in the following category: Deletion requests October 2011 What should I do? Don't panic; a discussion will now take place over on Commons about whether to remove the file. This gives you an opportunity to contest the deletion, although please review Commons guidelines before doing so. If the image is non-free then you may need to upload it to Wikipedia (Commons does not allow fair use) If the image isn't freely licensed and there is no fair use rationale then it cannot be uploaded or used. This notification is provided by a Bot --CommonsNotificationBot (talk) 11:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)

FALSE INFORMATION ABOUT NIGERIA

Dear Wikipedia;

Hope this meets you well? I want to commend you on you good work; however I am sure you are mistaken in some areas.

1. There are a lot more Christians than Muslims in Nigeria. Where did you get your own information from? Please check reliable sources like the World Bank Data-set or surveys carried out by The Nigerian Bureau of Statistics for this information. You probably got your information from the CIA website; that information is false.

2. Nigeria is not an Arabic country? I believe the language that you are aiming for is Hausa. Why don't you write in that language and not Arabic?

3. In the Article on USA, France, Germany and the UK; you don't have pictures of Negroes burning during the days of segregation and slavery and you don't have a picture of the horrors of the World Wars. How about the Japanese page, you don't have pictures of pearl harbor, do you? Why display the picture of a starving girl during the long forgotten Biafra War? Most Young Nigerians don't even know about that war. Shouldn't that be on another page? Why did you not put up the pictures of the second largest man-made structure (once the first)"The walls of benin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin or even :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungbo%27s_Eredo or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbani_Darego, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluchi_Onweagba? Do you really mean to say that picture you have selected is more relevant than all these? Is this really how you reported for other countries?

4. There are a lot of Modern places in Nigeria. Why choose the pictures you have here? This is the article people will look at when learning about Nigeria. You don't have to lie; why don't you tell the truth and give honest journalistic views and stop stereotyping?

Finally If you don't have information from a reliable source, just don't talk about the issue. There have been many Kingdoms in Nigeria not just the Benin Kingdom; there was the Oyo Kingdom, the Hausa Caliphate and the Igbos had a flourishing and specific dynasty.

I hope you will live up to the expectations of honesty, professionalism and goodwill. Please correct your article.

Thank you, Have a good day.

Tolu

email: luk4tolu@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.14.205 (talk) 02:42, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

INAPPROPRIATE PICTURE

Please take away the picture of the starving Biafran Girl as it is not relevant to this Article. The Article is about Nigeria and Not the Nigerian-Biafran War. All the other countries have fought wars and you don't have pictures of their casualties on their pages.

How about the wiki page on Japan, Germany and Russia? We don't see the pictures of the Holocaust or Pearl Harbor.

77.98.14.205 (talk) 03:17, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

This image was hidden. I concur with this concern, as the picture fits better in the main article linked at the top of the section, where it is actually present. An encyclopedic outline of Nigeria has surely more suitable images to show.--Jetstreamer (talk) 04:07, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Have you got a better image for illustrating the war? Chipmunkdavis (talk) 08:14, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I don't think that showing a starving child is a good picture for illustrating a war. Apart from that, it appears in the article for the war, if you just want it to be shown anyway.--Jetstreamer (talk) 14:15, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I would like some sort of picture here, as long as the section remains. Do you have a replacement? CMD (talk) 22:05, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

I get your point. Correct me if I'm wrong, but showing this particular picture because it is the one available is not a justification for its use. Have you tried a search on Commons?--Jetstreamer (talk) 22:53, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Sadly nothing obviously better on commons. CMD (talk) 16:50, 28 January 2012 (UTC)

Blacks

The first section of the artile stating the majority of nigeria`s population is BLACK--- is highly unnecessary, a falsehood and too personal-- ALL nigerians prefer not to be tagged by skin color----please kindly revert and edit--------thanks, Nigerians come in various shapes and forms--Please don`t call us all BLACK---The blacks you might be referring to are the ones in the eastern part of the country (Igbo,Calabari, Ijaws and the host in the eastern bantu region )the population in the eastern region is in the minority. These blacks are just about 30% of the population (mostly Nigerians don`t want to be tagged by race or color, its not in our everyday language and culture).Please let these article reflect writings that Nigerians would recognize and be proud of.

Not done for now: Where there is no citation, I have found the country profile from 2008 which states that there are mainly Hausa and Fulani, groups which are almost all black people. This supports that the population is mainly black. Unless you can provide a source to support what you are saying, the statement will have to remain. Puffin ^{Let's talk!} 18:55, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Puffin is right. We are black. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.14.205 (talk) 05:47, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Religion Update: Pew Forums Survey indicates 50.8% Christians

Based on a 2011 Pew Forum Survey, the %age of Christians has increased since the 2009 survey to 50.8%

http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-africa.aspx

Update accordingly.

80.5.67.41 (talk) 08:20, 27 December 2011 (UTC)

 Done Puffin ^{Let's talk!} 18:36, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

This has NOT been done. In the article, it states that Nigeria is 50% Muslim, 40% Christian and 10% Other. These are numbers that someone has reverted backwards from two updates. These figures are incorrect twice over. The most recent and accurate estimation is from the above Pew Forums survey, and it would be appreicated if this was updated in the Main Nigeria article, and the Religion in Nigeria article. 131.227.105.46 (talk)

-Done LOVE (talk) 17:43, 4 April 2013 (UTC)

Nigerian - Biafran Picture

Hello,

Hope this meets you well. I don't think the picture wiki put up for the Biafran war is suitable for the Nigerian page.

In the Article on USA, France, Germany and the UK; you don't have pictures of Negroes burning during the days of segregation and slavery and you don't have a picture of the horrors of the World Wars. How about the Japanese page, you don't have pictures of pearl harbor, do you? Why display the picture of a starving girl during the long forgotten Biafra War? Most Young Nigerians don't even know about that war. Shouldn't that be on another page? Why did you not put up the pictures of the second largest man-made structure (once the first)"The walls of benin": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walls_of_Benin or even :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sungbo%27s_Eredo or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbani_Darego, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oluchi_Onweagba? Do you really mean to say that picture you have selected is more relevant than all these? Is this really how wiki reported for other countries?

I think that section should be on a separate page.

Many Thanks,

Tolu — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.98.14.205 (talk) 05:44, 3 January 2012 (UTC)

Official Language

The following statement "The choice of English as the official language was partially related to the fact that a part of the Nigerian population spoke English as a result of British colonization that ended in 1960." has no references...one is left wondering if the statement has any factual basis!Eog1916 (talk) 23:11, 4 January 2012 (UTC)

Nok Culture

Nok artifacts have been discovered in Sokoto, Zaria and other places in Northern Nigeria, I think Northern Nigeria as opposed to central Nigeria is a more accurate description of the Nok. The denotation should reflect the geopolitical entities that existed or still exits; there was a region of the North and at present a North Central zone but never a central Nigerian zone.

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Official Language

"Based on a World Religious survey (Mapping out the Global Muslim Population) 50.4% of Nigeria's population were Muslims,[94] 50.8% were Christian[95] (15% Protestant, 13.7% Catholic, and 19.6% other Christian), and followers of other religions were 1.4%"

Clearly, these numbers add up to more than 100%. I'm pretty sure the groups are mutually exclusive too, so this really doesn't make any sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.80.156.187 (talk) 07:44, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

41.190.3.186 (talk) 13:49, 3 November 2013 (UTC) its funny how majority of Nigerian's spoken language here is English whereas the UK government does not have Nigeria on its list of English language speaking countries

The English Language is the official and National language of Nigeria. This is so as a result of British colonialist who annexed the country as part of the United Kingdom in mid 19th century. Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1960, but English still remains the official and National language as there are over 500 ethnic languages in the country which will make it impossible to govern. English is the sole language for political administration in Nigeria, as there is no second language at national level. The president uses it to address the nation, and all citizens understands; English is the only language all Nigerians can understand in unison. With different regions having different tribal languages, speaking one of them at national level will caused confusion, as most citizens will feel marginalized.

Another common language in Nigeria is the Nigerian pidgin English it is also widely spoken and understood in most part of the country and mostly used in informal conversations between Nigerians that already have a rapport or between people that are trying to speak very informally. However, it is still common for Nigerians to speak the English language the first time they meet a fellow citizen and will only resort to pidgin if they have built an informal relationship.

Additionally, within the various regions in Nigeria it is very common for people of the same ethnic group to speak their ethnic languages among themselves. However, they will resort to English if they are trying to talk to someone that is not from that region. For example, if an Igbo Nigerian is speaking with another Igbo Nigerian he or she might be speaking Igbo. But if a Nigerian from the Western part of the country, say a Yoruba joins the conversation, the Igbos will have to switch to English in order for the Yoruba Nigerian to understand what they are saying. That's the complexities when it comes to language in Nigeria.

Ojomohush (talk) 15:58, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

The Sport section is not updated

The nation's cadet team to Japan '93 produced some international players notably Nwankwo Kanu, a two-time African Footballer of the year who won the European Champions League with Ajax Amsterdam and later played with Inter Milan (Italy), Arsenal FC (London, UK), West Bromwich Albion (UK) and Portsmouth F.C. (UK). Other players that graduated from the Junior teams are Celestine Babayaro (of Newcastle United, UK), Wilson Oruma and Taye Taiwo (of Marseille, France).

This is from the Sport section of the Nigeria article. The sentences should be updated. Babayaro and Oruma have retired. Taiwo plays for Queens Park Rangers (on loan from AC Milan). --IRISZOOM (talk) 17:45, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Religion Update: Pew Forums Survey indicates 50.8% Christians, who has reverted this change and WHY?

The most recent and accurate estimation is from the above Pew Forums survey, and it would be appreicated if this was updated in the Main Nigeria article, and the Religion in Nigeria article.

http://www.pewforum.org/Christian/Global-Christianity-africa.aspx 131.227.105.46 (talk)

Not sure if this is where I should post this, but can someone clean up this page ? Some vandal has redirected all the links to some insane anti-semitic conspiracy theory page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chelecossais (talk • contribs) 17:44, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Someone vandalized a template, it should be fixed now. Also, try clearing you browser cache in case it is still there. Klilidiplomus+Talk 17:55, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 21 March 2012

1. Abuja, listed as a state (# 1) is NOT a state. Abuja is the Federal Capital Territory having similar constitutional/politico-economic position as Washington, D.C. in the United States.

2. At independence, the government was formed by the NORTHERN PEOPLES' CONGRESS, (led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa who became Prime Minister) not Nigeria Peoples Congress — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.103.15.154 (talk) 09:56, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

Nigerian scam emails

Why isn't there anything about this? What the hell. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.31.99.120 (talk) 17:35, 10 May 2012 (UTC)

Edit request on 19 June 2012

north is christian south is muslim

67.80.145.247 (talk) 17:47, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Not done: please be more specific about what needs to be changed. b. Mdann52 (talk) 18:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Government and politics

Words: "spurned" or (spurred?) Their meaning is roughly opposite to each other. Spurned means refused, pushed away, rebuked. Spurred mean motivated, driven, provoked. I think the author meant spurred. jimswen (talk) 19:34, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

Nigerian Coat of Arms

What happened to the coat of arms image? It used to be there until a few days ago.Nosugarcoating (talk) 16:11, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Edit request: Religion section.

The religion section mentions the "Church of the Latter Day Saints" and the "Mormons" as both having grown or flourished in Nigeria. These are one and the same, and should be referred to as "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" 63.248.253.182 (talk) 19:22, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Map of Africa at top of page - Not updated with North/South Sudan

Pretty self-explanatory, but the map at the top of the article is outdated and does not show the N/S Sudan distinction. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.17.151 (talk) 01:01, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

I have included an updated version. Did it a long time ago but forgot to update here until now. Cheers. --Nosugarcoating (talk) 20:19, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Wrong numbers on Christians and Muslims % numbers.

Dear Wilkipedia,

You have used the wrong numbers when it comes to percentage of Christian in Nigeria. The only reliable figures can be found on the CIA fact page on Nigeria(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html). The number are more like 50% Muslims, 40% Christians and 10% others. Kindly change this erroneous numbers to reflect reality on the ground. The Pew forum is not a reliable source of information on these numbers.

Thanks and regards, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hosiefa (talk • contribs) 20:46, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Pew Forums is reliable unless you have evidence to state otherwise. They reveal their methodology (http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Christian/ChristianityAppendixA.pdf). Their study is more up to date than the CIA World Factbook, which is nothing more than an estimation, and they do not reveal their methodology.

The most recent and reliable data suggests Nigeria is 50.8% Christian (http://features.pewforum.org/global-christianity/total-population-percentage.php) and 47.9% Muslim (http://features.pewforum.org/muslim-population/).

Unless you have data backed up by evidence with a reliable methodology, do not change this.

109.148.89.145 (talk) 16:46, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Christian 50.8%, Muslim 47.9%

Use sources which reveal their methodology. CIA World Factbook does not. It's pure estimation.

Nigeria is 50.8% Christian (http://features.pewforum.org/global-christianity/total-population-percentage.php) and 47.9% Muslim (http://features.pewforum.org/muslim-population/).

Pew Forums is reliable. They reveal their methodology (http://www.pewforum.org/uploadedFiles/Topics/Religious_Affiliation/Christian/ChristianityAppendixA.pdf)

There is no reason to change this at this point in time.

109.148.89.145 (talk) 16:52, 28 July 2013 (UTC)

Brain Drain in Nigeria

Here is an article that provides Nigeria's Brain Drain issue. Could someone with access fix the citation needed link? Thanks

http://www.who.int/bulletin/bulletin_board/82/stilwell1/en/

Breadinglover (talk) 12:39, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 26 August 2013

Olumide2011 (talk) 22:04, 26 August 2013 (UTC) Hello,

Would like to edit the driving position on the page. Nigeria drives on left not right.

Thank you

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.. Rivertorch (talk) 05:33, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 27 August 2013

Hello,

According to http://www.unicef.org/wcaro/WCARO_Nigeria_Factsheets_ChildLabour.pdf, there were 15 million child labourers below the age of 14 in Nigeria. Hence their should be a subsection concerning child labour.Sarcelles (talk) Kind regards Sarcelles (talk) 07:16, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Education

Wikipedia, Please kindly note that Nigeria government does not provide free education; education at all levels are privately funded by citizens, even in government owned institutions.

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:C:580:666:E8B9:CC62:A981:999 (talk) 01:14, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Interesting. The wording in the article is supported by the cited source from 2008. Could you provide a reliable source to refute it? Rivertorch (talk) 19:45, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Edit request on 4 December 2013 Key Sector Economic Figures

There are some inconsistencies in the first 2 sentences of the Key Sectors section

• First sentence:

"Nigeria is the 12th largest producer of petroleum in the world and the 8th largest exporter, and has the 10th largest proven reserves." No reference and no date- these figures are going to be subject to change- as per latest figure on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves#Proven_reserves_in_order Nigeria has 11th largest proven reserves and as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum#Production Nigeria is 15th largest producer of petroleum. Recommend first sentence be written with references and dates.

• Second sentence

"Petroleum plays a large role in the Nigerian economy, accounting for 40% of GDP and 80% of Government earnings." The figure of 40% of GDP which is not referenced, is directly contradicted by the summary on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Nigeria where oil is 14% of the economy with a direct reference.

Kind regards, Samjmitch (talk) 08:33, 4 December 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed

Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.britannica.com/blackhistory/article-24157. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you. Diannaa (talk) 20:22, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 March 2014

Please insert the tune for the National anthem under "arise o compatriots" most nations have theirs there too. i have a link here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF1a9ppi9qk Chengejude (talk) 18:09, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

We need a file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons with an appropriate license, can't just post a youtube link. Materialscientist (talk) 00:41, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2014

The page where the GDP of Nigeria is mentioned, the data there is not accurate and outdated, as the country just rebased its GDP to bring it to the 21st century. The new GDP figure is 510 Billion dollars and not the 3+ billion dollars thats been mentioned under the nominal gdp section. Data from the Nigeria Bureau of statistics. Thanks Ojomohush (talk) 15:40, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Sam Sailor ^Sing 20:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 12 April 2014

Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the leading economy in nigeria. Please reflect this and also update the new gdp. Thanks 76.164.122.168 (talk) 17:04, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Anupmehra -Let's talk! 17:26, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 7 April 2014

Please change Gross Domestic Product from the current amount to $510 billion as the GDP of Nigeria has been recalculated. Thanks. 98.230.98.154 (talk) 11:26, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: as you have not cited reliable sources to back up your request, without which no information should be added to any article. - Arjayay (talk) 14:05, 7 April 2014 (UTC)

As the above requester stated, I have gone further and provided evidence with web page sources quoting Fitch Ratings and the Financial Times, unfortunately I do not have a subscription to Fitch Ratings to get the article from source but the Reuters page has basically quoted the article and all the evidence needed is in it. Fitch is as reliable as you can get on this matter. Sorry if I haven't done this properly but this is my first post and apologies in advance for doing it wrongly. Ireajayi (talk) 09:37, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Not done: The Reuters article speaks of Fitch calculating $504B for its rating based on information from the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics. The Financial Times article is less useful since subscription website are less verifiable, but the snippet in the search engine output says "estimated" at $510B. The value currently in the article is from the International Monetaru Fund and is only 7 months old (October 2013). I think it would be better to leave that as the summary GDP rather than replacing it with an estimated or calculated value. If you want to add the fact Fitch calculated a GDB of $504B somewhere in the body of the article, please open a new request with the text, the location within the article at which to add the new text and the Reuters reference. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 17:36, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Anglicanism and Protestantism

Sorry if I'm being too nitpicky, but Anglicanism isn't part of Protestantism. Anglicans are a category unto themselves. C.f. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican#terminology.174.88.170.247 (talk) 22:06, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

You are, being nit-picky. — Preceding unsigned comment added by K.K.K.Marx (talk • contribs) 08:58, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Biggest industry sector?

Why is fraud (especially Internet scams) not mentioned at all, seeing as it is Nigeria's biggest industry sector? 77.180.120.195 (talk) 17:27, 7 July 2012 (UTC) Nigeria is a country of 160million people and only 1% that are into the internet scam, so why do you think they have to include it in the country's profile? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.169.200.122 (talk) 14:10, 1 September 2012 (UTC)

Admittedly, there are fraudsters outside Nigeria. — Preceding unsigned comment added by K.K.K.Marx (talk • contribs) 09:02, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

By the numbers ...

re last para under 'Demographics'.

We don't know WHEN this was written, so the use of the word 'today' is meaningless, as in: "Lagos has grown from about 300,000 in 1950 to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015."

As i write this, it is Nov. 2014, so a 'bump' of 10 million in a year seems sorta unlikely. 66.81.246.184 (talk) 02:26, 13 November 2014 (UTC)

"Youth in Nigeria..." - grammar fix

Third paragraph from top: "Youth in Nigeria has one of the largest populations of youth in the world". Article link should be changed to be grammatical. For example: "The country has one of the largest youth populations in the world." Trexmatt (talk) 21:03, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Done. --JBL (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2014 (UTC)

Adding an image of starving kids to "Biafran war" section of the article

Jamie Tubers has repeatedly removed images of the Nigerian Civil War which I have posted on the page. At first he claimed that "There's been a consensus to limit the image of the staffing girl to only the biafra articles.", then he claimed that the image should be removed because "picture is the depicting what has been disputed not to be included + nothing to prove that the image is actually a picture biafran kids..." and then once I added an image that clearly showed refugee children he removed it and wrote in the edit summary "against the standing consensus." I have checked the talk page archive and there was never any consensus reached on this topic. It seems that back in November 2011 an IP address user raised the issue but there was never a consensus reached.

My opinion on the topic is that a war and famine which killed 1-3 million people is an extremely important historical event if not for the world than certainly for Nigeria and it should have a picture to reflect that content of the article (which is wikipedia criteria for including WP:images|images). The image of two famine stricken children does that and without showing things like close-up images of dead bodies (which could be disturbing to younger Wikipedia users).

I would like to have the opinions of other users.Monopoly31121993 (talk) 15:10, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

• an IP objected to the image; it was subsequently removed by another editor, and has been that way for 3 years. This obviously means that the other editors agree with the removal. For you to revert an article from a standing undisputed version to a version which had been disputed before would need you to get a consensus.

Now to my opinion, the Nigerian civil war is truly significant, but the article is not focused on the civil war. Placing disturbing images in a section with just an excerpt gives undue weight to the image than to what has been written. Anyone who comes across the section, and wants to really read, see and know more about the war can easily click on the link just above the excerpt. The images of starving people is best for the war article, no reader would search for/click on the "Nigeria" article to read about Biafran war, when he can easily search for/click on "biafran war". Your argument that the image should be there just because the war is significant is skewed, because we might as well say the section should have an indept coverage of up to ten paragraphs because the war is significant. But that's also impossible! Why? Because the section should be an excerpt....the images are lying in the Biafran war article and no one will ever dispute those inclusions, cos they are very appropriate. --Jamie Tubers (talk) 15:58, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Islam is the second greatest religion b

Er, the sentence "Islam is the second greatest religion" needs to be modified. It is trying to say that Islam is the second most dominant religion in the country... but that is entirely different than "greatest." Greatest implies a value/quality to the religion.50.201.228.202 (talk) 15:09, 13 January 2015 (UTC)

Restored the page to a cleaner version

I reverted various recent edits on this page because I noticed there have been alterations in statistics, without changing the sources to back up the new claim. There have also been additions of unsourced information. Well sourced additions have also been removed without any explanations. A particular editor explained in the edit summary, the reason for removing a whole section, but the section still needs to be summarized in the main article not totally removed.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:08, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

A LOT TO BE DONE

I can clearly see that there is still a lot that Wikipedia does not know about Nigeria. From it's history to modern day activities there is just so much that are very relevant that's missing in the article.

How about including the Lagos State Carnival or the Calabar Carnival? They are more relevant than the Bida Carnival by a very long shot with much more detail and pictures?

Suggestion to create a subsection on child labour

According to http://www.unicef.org/wcaro/WCARO_Nigeria_Factsheets_ChildLabour.pdf, there were 15 million child labourers below the age of 14 in Nigeria. Hence their should be a subsection concerning child labour.Sarcelles (talk)

Phonetic transcription of name

shithead brits, pls at least mark RP as such. editing is locked, someone fix it for the american pronunciation? the second syllable is a long [i]

ethic group

The percentage figures wiki ethic group in Nigeria is incorrect when compare to actual reality Edo making 3% of Nigeria population is false because Edo state,even the ibibio of calabar and ikwa ibom is not more than the ijaws which is the most populated tribe in the Niger delta ,ijaws 've a population of over 2.7 million people in river state (with 12 LGA) ,in bayelsa a population of over 2million and delta state ijaws 're present in 6 LGA with a population of over 1 millon ,in Ondo state ijaws 've one LGA with a population of over 120,000,ijaws villages across Edo state 've a population of over 150,000 and similar number across ikwa ibom and not counting ijaws living across the country in general ,in do more research cos 2% of 170million is about 3.4 million people is does not correspond to the population of the ijaws people ,Ijaws 're more populated than Edo and Ibibio please I would kindly appeal for this to be review and corrected also the Hausa and ibos 're more populated in actual figure that the yoruba ,lagos population of over 20million cuts across Nigerians from other regions ,the ibos mostly cut across all Nigeria not just eastern state but everywhere including the northern Nigeria .thks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odidi28 (talk • contribs) 21:09, 4 February 2015 (UTC)

• Hello, can you kindly provide an official source for this? Only then can these changes be made.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 12:20, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

• thk Jamie tuber

      I LL state some fact with references on each of them ,

In River state ijaws 've ten LGA ,According to census data released in 2006, Rivers state has a population of 5,185,400 ,with 23 LGA and ijaws has 10 out of that 23,these LGAs 're Port Harcourt, Abua-Odual, Akukutoru, Asaritoru, Degema, Bonny, Andoni, Okrika, Ogu-Bolo and Opobo-Nkoro, comprising of a total population of around 2.3million . References

• http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm
• http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/rivers-2015-ijaws-fresh-push
• http://www.ijawdictionary.com/menu/index.php

Bayelsa state is an ijaw state and with a population of over 1.7 million (2006 census) which Tribunal orders NPC to recount 114 localities in Bayelsa cause they didn't cover many riverine communities, it alleged that some fishing settlements were not covered by enumerators due to the lack of river transportation and that respected itself in ijaws territories within the Niger delta cos they aren't accessible by road ,even my I wasn't counted neither was any one in my village in delta state cos it's not accessible by road and ignorance of people toward need to be part of census to be counted is another factor

References

                                    http://theeagleonline.com.ng/2006-

http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/Tribunal-orders-census-recount-in-Bayelsa-20130605

In Delta state, ijaws 're in 6LGA Bomadi,Patani,burutu 're ijaws LGA solely while Warri south (comprising of 40% urhobos,30%isekiries and 30% ijaw) ,warri north (ijaws 4 Fed ward and isekiries 6 Fed ward 50% 50 polution ration ),while warri south west (ijaws 4Fed ward and isekiries 6) of which ijaws 're over 60% of the population there. 2006 census shows delta as over 4million ,and a break down of the population figures in those lga the ijaws account for about 800,000 while urhobos around 1.25 million,delta ibos around 1.3 million ,isekiries around 400,000 with Isoko ethic group accounting for over 360,000 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State

http://reclaimnaija.net/lga/?state_id=10&lga_id=762

In Akwa ibom ijaws has 2 LGA out of its 31 LGA ,these 're ibeno LGA and eastern obolo LGA (these ijaws identify themselves as andoni people) both LGA in 2006 census 're over 130,000 

References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolo_people http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Obolo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibeno http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm2id=NGA003002 http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm2id=NGA003008

In Ondo state the ijaws have 1 LGA Ese odo LGA 2006 population census of over 154,975 References

http://eseodolga.gnbo.com.ng
                            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ese_Odo

In Edo state these over 8tribe ,the bini(Edo), Ebira, Okpe, Esan, Afemai, Ora, Akoko-Edo, Igbanke, Emai and Ijaw.and Edo state has a population of 3,233,366 (2006 population census) of which ijaws communities 're spread under two LGA with a population estimates of around 150,000 and with all the other ethic group accounting for over a million , that s leave the bini/ Edo people just over 2million References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_State http://www.ijawdictionary.com/menu/index.php http://www.unitedijaw.com/ijawnews.htm http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm

Clearly even from the 2006 census ijaws 're officially more than the other ethic nationally placed ahead of them in the present chart and again then Nigeria was over 140million then with figure now rated about 170million + , if ijaws area even without proper censusCount on its areas cos most 're riverine still get figure of about huge figure during 2006 knowing that it's population has increased like the others . It's a clear fact it sited during the 1990s and till date that ijaws 're the 4th largest tribe in Nigeria with a population of over atleaste over 10 million and no credible census has been done to dispute that fact and even the controversial census done in 2006 still put ijaws far above the other tribes that is been place ahead of them if we compare via the 2006 census With this I 'll kindly appeal to the dear wiki editors and brilliant writer ,to do more research on these and make correction cause a lot of people including myself see wiki as a center to learn about a lot of things and it's always important people get access to the right informations.thks

references

  https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=d2WcCIm6WaQC&pg=PA771&lpg=PA771&dq=ijaw+4th+largest+tribe&source=bl&ots=gXUoGhk1ph&sig=khO7MWjoMuCr-vwu5JCcsibFA0s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v7TVMOVHNXtaMzqgfgB&ved=0←CB0Q6AEwATgU

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/iyc-rejects-creation-of-additional-18-states-without-ijaws-inputs/
                                   http://www.waado.org/environment/fedgovt_nigerdelta/bayelsainvasion/IjawsReactToInvasion/DieteSpiffReflectsOnInvasion.html
 http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/bad-luck-has-hit-the-ijaw-project/199064/
                         http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad6864.html

ethic group

     I LL state some fact with references on each of them ,

In River state ijaws 've ten LGA ,According to census data released in 2006, Rivers state has a population of 5,185,400 ,with 23 LGA and ijaws has 10 out of that 23,these LGAs 're Port Harcourt, Abua-Odual, Akukutoru, Asaritoru, Degema, Bonny, Andoni, Okrika, Ogu-Bolo and Opobo-Nkoro, comprising of a total population of around 2.3million . References http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/rivers-2015-ijaws-fresh-push http://www.ijawdictionary.com/menu/index.php Bayelsa state is an ijaw state and with a population of over 1.7 million (2006 census) which Tribunal orders NPC to recount 114 localities in Bayelsa cause they didn't cover many riverine communities, it alleged that some fishing settlements were not covered by enumerators due to the lack of river transportation and that respected itself in ijaws territories within the Niger delta cos they aren't accessible by road ,even my I wasn't counted neither was any one in my village in delta state cos it's not accessible by road and ignorance of people toward need to be part of census to be counted is another factor References

                                   http://theeagleonline.com.ng/2006-

http://m.news24.com/nigeria/National/News/Tribunal-orders-census-recount-in-Bayelsa-20130605

In Delta state, ijaws 're in 6LGA Bomadi,Patani,burutu 're ijaws LGA solely while Warri south (comprising of 40% urhobos,30%isekiries and 30% ijaw) ,warri north (ijaws 4 Fed ward and isekiries 6 Fed ward 50% 50 polution ration ),while warri south west (ijaws 4Fed ward and isekiries 6) of which ijaws 're over 60% of the population there. 2006 census shows delta as over 4million ,and a break down of the population figures in those lga the ijaws account for about 800,000 while urhobos around 1.25 million,delta ibos around 1.3 million ,isekiries around 400,000 with Isoko ethic group accounting for over 360,000 References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_State http://reclaimnaija.net/lga/?state_id=10&lga_id=762

In Akwa ibom ijaws has 2 LGA out of its 31 LGA ,these 're ibeno LGA and eastern obolo LGA (these ijaws identify themselves as andoni people) both LGA in 2006 census 're over 130,000 References https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obolo_people http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Obolo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibeno http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm2id=NGA003002 http://www.citypopulation.de/php/nigeria-admin.php?adm2id=NGA003008 In Ondo state the ijaws have 1 LGA Ese odo LGA 2006 population census of over 154,975 References http://eseodolga.gnbo.com.ng

                           http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ese_Odo

In Edo state these over 8tribe ,the bini(Edo), Ebira, Okpe, Esan, Afemai, Ora, Akoko-Edo, Igbanke, Emai and Ijaw.and Edo state has a population of 3,233,366 (2006 population census) of which ijaws communities 're spread under two LGA with a population estimates of around 150,000 and with all the other ethic group accounting for over a million , that s leave the bini/ Edo people just over 2million References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_State http://www.ijawdictionary.com/menu/index.php http://www.unitedijaw.com/ijawnews.htm http://www.ijawfoundation.org/communities.htm Clearly even from the 2006 census ijaws 're officially more than the other ethic nationally placed ahead of them in the present chart and again then Nigeria was over 140million then with figure now rated about 170million + , if ijaws area even without proper censusCount on its areas cos most 're riverine still get figure of about huge figure during 2006 knowing that it's population has increased like the others . It's a clear fact it sited during the 1990s and till date that ijaws 're the 4th largest tribe in Nigeria with a population of over atleaste over 10 million and no credible census has been done to dispute that fact and even the controversial census done in 2006 still put ijaws far above the other tribes that is been place ahead of them if we compare via the 2006 census With this I 'll kindly appeal to the dear wiki editors and brilliant writer ,to do more research on these and make correction cause a lot of people including myself see wiki as a center to learn about a lot of things and it's always important people get access to the right informations.thks references

 https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=d2WcCIm6WaQC&pg=PA771&lpg=PA771&dq=ijaw+4th+largest+tribe&source=bl&ots=gXUoGhk1ph&sig=khO7MWjoMuCr-vwu5JCcsibFA0s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4v7TVMOVHNXtaMzqgfgB&ved=0←CB0Q6AEwATgU

http://theeagleonline.com.ng/iyc-rejects-creation-of-additional-18-states-without-ijaws-inputs/

                                  http://www.waado.org/environment/fedgovt_nigerdelta/bayelsainvasion/IjawsReactToInvasion/DieteSpiffReflectsOnInvasion.html
http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/bad-luck-has-hit-the-ijaw-project/199064/
                        http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ad6864.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odidi28 (talk • contribs) 18:46, 6 February 2015 (UTC) 

• Hello, your submission seems too incoherent for me. Tell us precisely what you want to be changed, and give references for them. Example, change "Nigeria has 150 million people" to "Nigeria has 200 million people" (www.reference1.com, www.reference2.com, www.reference3.com). As simple and straight forward as that.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 17:06, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

ethic group %

Thks Jamie ,I 'll my point clearer

Changes I recommend to be made is in the ethic group %

Change "ijaws 2% "to "ijaws 10%"

of Nigeria population ,it's the fourth largest tribe and the most populated in the south south .

References

http://www.refworld.org/docid/4954ce6719.html http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/07/ijaw-rejects-confab-recommendation-creation-additional-18-states/ http://www.indexmundi.com/nigeria/ethnic_groups.html http://www.everyculture.com/Ma-Ni/Nigeria.html https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=ZJXWiH8s8kEC&pg=PA7&lpg=PA7&dq=Nigeria+by+tribe+ijaw+percent&source=bl&ots=sqC106o0qt&sig=RhCbK73rXoH06euw6S_xO4wcRGk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=IdDWVN6XJ8_g7Qa-zYAY&ved=0CDcQ6AEwCTha http://www.berria.eus/estiloliburua/mundua/Nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ijaw_people http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Nigeria http://www.jamtan.com/jamtan/fulani.cfm?chap=3&linksPage=356 http://dailyindependentnig.com/2013/02/dickson-wants-ijaw-language-in-national-curriculum/ http://www.ijaw-naa.org/meetings/communique.htm http://www.unitedijaw.com/torulagha0000119.htm https://books.google.com.ng/books?id=mbNOHo1atL4C&pg=PA16444&lpg=PA16444&dq=ijaw+4th+largest+tribe&source=bl&ots=UVdK867B6S&sig=1xHaWI8sVcvq_cOUreL4q6l2mWU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rN_TVP2jOojb7AaNqYHwDw&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAjge http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/bad-luck-has-hit-the-ijaw-project/199064/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Odidi28 (talk • contribs) 03:37, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done I just saw the statistics doesn't even conform with the citation given on the page. I fixed that! Thanks for bringing this to the fore!!!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 12:08, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 14 February 2015

Efik-Ibibio as percentage of the Nigerian population was 11%. I noticed someone has manipulated the figures and changed it to 3% of the Nigerian Population. Alpinaaa (talk) 21:51, 14 February 2015 (UTC)

Not done: All the sources provided for that statistic say around 3-5%. Do you have a reliable source that says 11%? Stickee (talk) 01:11, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

@Jamie Tubers: I saw you recently updated the stats. Which of the 4 citations were you using for the update? Stickee (talk) 01:13, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

• Hey, thanks for the ping, I just saw I made a major error in the update due to my rush at the time, I just made the necessary corrections using this reference http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Africa/Nigeria-ETHNIC-GROUPS.html . Thanks.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:34, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 21 February 2015

There are two typos in the Sport section: 1) A space is missing for "five occasions", and the link the 2014 World Cup pages is misnamed "2010". Thus, change:
Nigeria's national football team, known as the "Super Eagles", has made the World Cup on fiveoccasions 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, and most recently in 2010.
to:
Nigeria's national football team, known as the "Super Eagles", has made the World Cup on five occasions 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010, and most recently in 2014.

Brown131 (talk) 19:13, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

 Done Thanks for pointing that out - Arjayay (talk) 19:34, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Where Nigeria's name came from

there is a man by the name of Emeka Keazor (a lawyer and did post-graduate study in history) who had a research paper he released not too long ago. He also did a presentation. He had said that the name Nigeria was in existence before 1914, that Flora Shaw did not come up with the name Nigeria. This is where he has his paper. It may be worth the look: http://www.slideshare.net/EdKeazor/the-journey-to-amalgamation-a-brief-summary — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.21.61.158 (talk) 00:56, 27 March 2015 (UTC)

Nigerian ethnic groups

There have been long standing disputes over the ethnic statistics in Nigeria on Wikipedia...and I'm very sure it would rear its head very soon once more. There are several conflicting information out there....all of which are unofficial! Nigerian Census usually do not include demographics of tribes and races in Nigeria, so there's basically no official source for this....just speculations! At most, estimations from different publishers. I am suggesting the entire removal of the statistics of ethnic groups from the infobox. This would definitely put an end to the recurrent disputes. Maybe somewhere in the body of the article, we can include: "according to [...name of the publisher...], the percentage of this ethnic group and this one, is this and that?--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:11, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Supported. This is true, especially as this is highly controversial in Nigeria with regular disputes often. The estimates are not based on any census as you said, and is misleading. The CIA world factbook, where these estimates originate, isn't always very accurate, it can be used as a support for population estimates on individual ethnic group pages. It also does not account for non-Nigerian ancestries of which there are hundreds of thousands in Nigeria, especially with so many migratory open borders cutting through communities. Ukabia - talk 00:23, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 March 2015

I wish to edit the section on Religion to include Gospel Faith Mission Int'l on the list of Leading protestant churches. Femihard (talk) 22:26, 30 March 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The reliable source will have to state that "Gospel Faith Mission Int'l" is a "Leading protestant church" Mlpearc (open channel) 03:43, 31 March 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2015

please add "PIDGIN ENGLISH" also known as "BROKIN ENGLISH" to one of the languages in nigeria. i requested for this because pidgin is one of the most popular language in nigeria after english. 95% of the population in nigeria speaks pidgin. presently, pigin is kind of official in nigeria. it is called pidgin english or brokin english because it an english that is modified by the WARRI people in Delta state of Nigeria.. Pingin language or Pigin english is originated from warri part of Delta State in nigeria. presently, the language has gone soo wide in the country to the extent that is now been use in media programmes,infact there are radio stations and tv stations that are currently functioning in nigeria now and all they speak is only pidgin e.g Waobia tv station and radio station and some others.. please i request pidgin to be added to languages in nigeria--169.159.94.253 (talk) 00:15, 2 April 2015 (UTC)--169.159.94.253 (talk) 00:15, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

169.159.94.253 (talk) 00:15, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mlpearc (open channel) 00:21, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 April 2015

Muhammadu Buhari should replace Jonathan as the president, As the republic of Nigeria now has a new president, would be nice if you could update that on Wikipedia for the authenticity of Wikipedia. MkoAbiola (talk) 07:12, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Mlpearc (open channel) 08:02, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Buhari is the president-elect, not the president. -- haminoon (talk) 08:17, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 April 2015

The portion at the beginning that talks about the population of Nigeria contains deliberate falsifications. It quotes the CIA factbook in citing the population of Nigeria, then it goes on to assign arbitrary population figures, bringing down the CIA factbook figure of the Ijaws from 10% percent, down to 2% of the overal population. The Population of the Ijaws according to the same CIA factbook is 10% percent

213.205.251.49 (talk) 12:35, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format. Edgars2007 (talk/contribs) 14:40, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 May 2015

i want to tell that in nigeria a new president has been elected Muhammad buhari. so please change the name of the former president tahnks. Muhammad Ahmad Bin Ehtesham (talk) 14:01, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

 Not done the article clearly states that Muhammadu Buhari is the president elect, but he is NOT the president, and will not be so until he assumes office on 29 May 2015. - Arjayay (talk) 16:25, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

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Paragraph 6, line 1 under "religion" has an extra ampersand: "reported that 46.5&% of the total population"

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Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2015

Please change this sentence, the number suggested for the UK is far too big. ' In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians resided in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each.[119]'

The 2011 England census records 188,690 people born in Nigeria living in England, of whom 114,718 live in London. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nigerian

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Not done: - duplicate of the request below. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 16:50, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 September 2015

Please change ' In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians resided in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each.[119]

To 'The 2011 British census recorded 191,183 in England and Wales, with the largest concentration in London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Nigerian). A 2006 American Community Survey, recorded about 266,000 U.S. residents claiming Nigerian heritage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_American). Cwacsee (talk) 12:46, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Not done: - there are other sources which seem to support the information in the article. This source uses 15M, and suggests an official estimate of 4 million Nigerians in the USA and Canada. I suspect it may be that the article and the various census reports are not counting the same thing: it may be "literally born within Nigeria" versus "being of Nigerian descent", and those could be very different numbers. Since the sources which use the large numbers are using them within the context of overseas remittances, the numbers are also in context, and I don't think that changing them with census figures would be appropriate. Since Wikipedia can't be used as a reliable source, I think that you should do more research, and/or develop a consensus for this change before opening a new edit request. Ivanvector 🍁 (talk) 17:00, 9 September 2015 (UTC)

Demographics

If you look at the calendar and read this passage, I think the problem will be self-evident: "Nigeria's largest city is Lagos. Lagos has grown from about 300,000 in 1950[145] to an estimated 15 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.[146]"

May I suggest that any article that states a fact that is likely to change over time and refers to the situation "today" includes information on when "today" actually is? For example, if this passage said "Lagos has grown from about 300,000 to an estimated 15 million today (2004)", no one could have a problem with it.

135.23.68.111 (talk) 22:05, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2015

Religion

Main article: Religion in Nigeria

Religion in Nigeria (BBC)

  Islam (65%)

  Christianity (27%)

  Traditional (8%)

|ethnic_groups =

• 34% Hausa
• 21% Yoruba
• 13% Fulani
• 12% Igbo
• 20% others

References

brancy 20:50, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The current ethnics groups in the infobox are sourced to a 2014 document. You will need to provide a more recent reliable source before updates can be made. -- ferret (talk) 21:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

Nigerian ethnic groups

I raised this before, but with no reply. I believe the ethnic column of the infobox should be left blank. Nigerian census doesn't have any statistics based on ethnicity, so there's basically no official figures anywhere. Meanwhile we see several very different figures flying around different websites, all claiming to be valid estimates of Nigerian ethnic statistics, which can't be possibly pegged to any earlier census or anything. As a result of this, there has always been a soft edit war in that column for years. What do you guys think? If there's no reply, I'd assume watchers of this page agree with my point and I'd go ahead with the removal.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 21:04, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

I support the removal per reasons given. —OluwaCurtis »» (talk to me) 21:32, 5 January 2016 (UTC)

Support Mesh22 (talk) 12:41, 6 January 2016 (UTC)

Malaria in Nigeria

I would like to suggest adding a paragraph in the Health section about malaria. This is a very serious problem in Nigeria according to the WHO and other organizations. 76% of the population lives in high transmission areas and the WHO estimates there are 42M-78M cases causing 81,000 - 150,000 fatalities.

Sample source; http://www.who.int/malaria/publications/country-profiles/profile_nga_en.pdf

109.255.134.159 (talk) 06:08, 9 January 2016 (UTC) Jamie Cassidy

"Nigeria's maiden Governor-General"

Is this a correct use of the idiom? I thought it refers to one's first activity as something: a maiden voyage of a ship, or the maiden speech of a new member of Parliament. But not the first person to do something. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:04, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

religion section

The religion section could be rewritten (I'm not knowledgeable). I was going to copy examples of confusion but they are too many: just look at what "recent reports" say about the percentage of Muslims and Christians. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 21:20, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Benin-Stadt

Why does the map under "subdivisions" show Benin City as Benin-Stadt? The rest of the map seems to be in English. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:54, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

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John Okafor (talk) 10:41, 8 April 2016 (UTC)

History not clearly captured

Not done: as you have not requested a specific change in the form "Please replace XXX with YYY" or "Please add ZZZ between PPP and QQQ".
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Agatu Massacres

I have added a short section on the recent Agatu massacres. Cpsoper (talk) 09:03, 11 April 2016 (UTC) HELLO — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.171.132.163 (talk) 17:14, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

Buhari photo

The photo of the President should be changed, if possible, to one that is more official. This photo was taken before he assumed office. BroVic (talk) 12:46, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 July 2016

This request is to add "Jehovah's Witnesses" under established Christian religions in Nigeria. Currently this religion is not referenced although they have a greater number of members in Nigeria than other religions referenced (351,000 in 2013; https://www.jw.org/en/jehovahs-witnesses/activities/construction/3000-kingdom-halls-in-nigeria/). Edit to be added in paragraph 8 under section 6.4.

The hyperlink above could be used as a footnote reference.

Getslayne (talk) 03:37, 11 July 2016 (UTC) </ref>

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Change "Kingdom of Benin" to "Benin Empire"

That is the correct name of the ancient civilisation - it was not a Kingdom but an Empire. As can be seen in the Benin Empire page itself. 191.33.129.183 (talk) 22:13, 15 July 2016 (UTC)

•  Done--Jamie Tubers (talk) 04:01, 24 July 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 17 August 2016

==the drive is on the left not the right

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Largest cities or towns in Nigeria

I think, in section "Society", in "Largest cities or towns in Nigeria" is mistake. Lagos - Largest cities, doesn´t have population about 260 mil. people.

Skotik11 (talk) 19:22, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

•  Done--Jamie Tubers (talk) 11:16, 7 September 2016 (UTC)

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Suggestion of subsection on women

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a subsection on women should be added to the section on demographics.

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driving

Nigerian drivers drive on the left, not the right TheWhitesnake (talk) 07:23, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

my error , scratch that TheWhitesnake (talk) 17:20, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

driving

Nigerian drivers drive on the left TheWhitesnake (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

@TheWhitesnake: what do you mean by your sentence?. Don"t understand you. --Music Boy50 (talk) 17:27, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Update The Chief justice

An editor with appropriate right should update the chief justice to Walter Samuel Nkanu Onnoghen, I tried but it seems the page is somehow protected. Amos e (talk) 08:19, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

misspelling

"...perhaps the largest lead poisoning fatality epidemic every encountered."

"every" should be "ever"

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What kind of English?

The talk page here says the article is written in Nigerian English, but there's a notice on the article which pops up when you go to edit which says it's written in British English. This makes a difference for words like organization (Nigerian) vs. organisation (British). I would be inclined to resolve this in favor of the Nigerian English standard for the obvious reason, even despite the fact that the notice about British English does seem to have been posted a few months sooner than the one for Nigerian English. Can we at least get them to match so that we can agree on spelling conventions? LacrimosaDiesIlla (talk) 12:34, 21 September 2017 (UTC)

Native language English?!

"Most of the population speak English as their native language." What? Please delete this obvious nonsense. Maybe--just maybe--most of the population have acquired an understanding of English to varying degrees, but certainly not what's in the article... 85.246.33.91 (talk) 20:49, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

If you read the article, it actually says "Most of the population speak English and their native language." Gbear605 (talk) 21:09, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 11 January 2018

Under Languages add Nigerian Pidgin. Seeteer1 (talk) 19:45, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

@Seeteer1:, Welcome to Wikipedia. Pidgin has already been included in the language section of the article. Not everything can be included in the Infobox to avoid cluttering. Regards Mahveotm (talk) 21:46, 11 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 26 January 2018

Add the following to the sports section of the Nigeria wiki Page

Nigeria’s female bobsleigh team has qualified for the 2018 Winter Olympics, meaning the three athletes will become the first in any sport to represent their country in the competition.

Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere, and Akuoma Omega made history after successfully completing five races held across North America in Utah, Whistler and Calgary.

As a result, they will head to Pyeongchang, South Korea in February.

Lim763 (talk) 18:33, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

References

Are we sure they're qualified? Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics indicates that we aren't sure yet. Has anybody seen the 14 January rankings to see if the team qualified? —C.Fred (talk) 18:47, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

 Done The ESPN article makes their qualification explicit. We already list Nigeria as qualified in the Bobsleigh at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Qualification article so this request just rationalizes the text with that article. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 19:32, 29 January 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 31 January 2018

AS per the Pew research center , population of Nigeria is 49.3% christians and 48.8% muslims. 2.50.228.7 (talk) 20:56, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Please read the religion sub section. It has already been mentioned in the article. Regards, Mahveotm (talk) 21:15, 31 January 2018 (UTC)

Languages: "Most of the population speaks English as their native language."

Whereas only one paragraph below, the above mislead is corrected in the sentence: "Even though most ethnic groups prefer to communicate in their own languages, English as the official language is widely used for education, business transactions and for official purposes. English as a first language is used only by a small minority of the country's urban elite, and it is not spoken at all in some rural areas." Some consistency here, please (and, above all, no counterinfo...) 89.180.157.205 (talk) 10:01, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

Lead alteration

I think the lead should begin with “Nigeria” because of MOS:LEADSENTENCE and the fact that Germany has a very similar full name but it begins with “Germany” not “The Federal Republic of Germany”. IWI (chat) 17:18, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

• Like you've been told already, there's absolutely nothing in MOS:LEADSENTENCE that says the first word in the lead of an article has to be EXACTLY what the title is. Pointing to the wording of other articles doesn't prove anything; I can point to several other articles with a different wording...that's the reason why there are guidelines. I have nothing against your version per se (because it is correct too), but I'm not supporting the change, because what you are trying to "correct" is a longstanding version of the article that is not wrong. It's a norm on Wikipedia, not to change the longstanding versions of articles, unless there's something actually wrong with them. Allowing everyone to impose what they personally feel is "right" without any justification only leads to editwars.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:08, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

That condescending tone is not necessary “like you’ve been told”. We are two opinions; let’s see what others think. It won’t lead to an edit war if we discuss and when we do so, we treat each other with equal respect. IWI (chat) 23:11, 8 July 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 9 July 2018

137.99.14.206 (talk) 01:18, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Enna is Enna

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. L293D (☎ • ✎) 01:46, 9 July 2018 (UTC)

Religions statics

The statics or census of Religion in Nigeria Article is wrong 🙅, Abubakar A Gwanki 23:10, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Claimed 2m Nigerians in the UK

The article says "In 2014, 17.5 million Nigerians resided in foreign countries, with the UK and the USA having more than 2 million Nigerians each. Nigeria witnessed a dramatic increase in remittances sent home from overseas Nigerians, going from USD 2.3 billion in 2004 to 17.9 billion in 2007", based on numbers quoted in a Nigerian Tribune newspaper story in [120].

That 2m for the UK is clearly wrong. The actual number according to the UK Office of National Statistics in May 2018 is:

"For Nigeria, the latest (1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017) published estimates are that 190,000 people (with a confidence interval (CI) of 21,000) that were born in Nigeria live in the UK."

The USD2.3b in 2004 to USD17.9b in 2007 is also not what it seems. While those numbers match world bank data in , that shows USD2.3b in 2004, USD14.6b in 2005 and USD 16.9 in 2006. The actual remittance flows would not have had a six-fold increase from one year to the next so clearly there was a methodology change between 2004 and 2005.

S161803 (talk) 15:19, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I've removed this sentence for the time being. Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 17:42, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2018

Without citing any reliable sources that directly support that material, the article claims that Nigeria is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups.

• In the 3rd paragraph, the article claims that "The country is viewed as a multinational state as it is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups..". This claim is not found in the two sources that are provided at the end of the claim (1, 2 - by the way, the onlinenigeria.com source is unreliable and should not be in the article).
• The same unsubstantiated claim is repeated in the article in the "Ethnic groups" section: "Nigeria has more than 500 ethnic groups". The source that is provided fails to properly state the page where the material allegedly is found, and also does not fulfill Wikipedia's Exceptional Claim content policy. When you check the article's history, you'll see that the "Geographica: The complete Atlas of the world" source was added on 13 December 2006 by editor Gozar. Before that addition, the number of ethnic groups had been listed on the article as 250, with a citation to the CIA World Factbook.

Apparently, the claim of over 500 ethnic groups seems to be the result of original research.

In order to fullfil Wikipedia's core content policies of Verifiability, No Original Reseach and Neutral Point of View, could an editor please delete the above mentioned unreferenced claim? Thank you. 77.4.50.32 (talk) 12:06, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

 Done I fixed the figure using a document from US embassy. I also removed the unreliable source. Thank you. –Ammarpad (talk) 13:40, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you, Ammarpad. However, you forgot to correct the unsourced entry about the 500 ethnic groups in the third paragraph at the beginning of the article. The article still claims that "...The country is viewed as a multinational state as it is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups..". According to the CIA world factbook and the US embassy source Nigeria has 250 ethnic groups. Could an editor pls correct this? Thank you. 77.4.50.32 (talk) 23:17, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Fixed now. –Ammarpad (talk) 10:36, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Thank you. 95.114.61.208 (talk) 11:07, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

• Tbf, I don't blame the source, this thing can get really confusing. Presently, there are over 500 languages and 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria. However, some of the ethnic groups have the same name as their corresponding languages, case in point, Yoruba, which is both a language and an ethnic group, so it can be really confusing if you're not thorough. I think the editor that wrote over 500 ethnic groups was probably referring to over 500 languages. Great find ip user. HandsomeBoy (talk) 12:56, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

OTD

Can someone kindly nominate this article for Selected anniversaries(OTD). Oct 1 is rapidly approaching and I'm too busy to do it. Best, Mahveotm (talk) 15:19, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

official names

In the infobox "official" names of the country in Igbo, Yoruba, and Haussa are presented for which I am not able to find a single reference from a Nigerian website. The respective language editions of Wikipedia refer to the country using different names. Can anybody explain why? And if these three languages are more official than others in the first place? → «« Man77 »» 14:26, 29 January 2019 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 4 April 2019

In the religion section, clicking on Christianity redirects to Islam. SweatyBooch420 (talk) 13:52, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

 Fixed – Ammarpad (talk) 14:02, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 25 May 2019

The middle belt ethnic groups should include the Sayawa in Bauchi, the Bwatiye (Bachama) in Adamawa, the Kamwe (Higi) of Adamawa, the Jukun of Taraba. the Bajju of Kaduna and the Bura of Borno State Diyam Space (talk) 10:05, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

References

 Not done: You have provided a non-specific source for one of those groups (a page or range of pages is ideally supplied as well), and none for the others. NiciVampireHeart 20:09, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Driver side

The Nigeria driver side is "left" Samuel elleh (talk) 12:01, 14 June 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 1 July 2019

41.58.149.234 (talk) 13:48, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Driving side - Left

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. NiciVampireHeart 14:54, 1 July 2019 (UTC)

Adiat Disu

Dear Wikipedians! I wrote an article in German-speaking Wikipedia about the Nigerian entrepreneur Adiat Disu. For additional information, I would be very grateful! Greetings from Fritzober (talk) 23:30, 26 July 2019 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 August 2019

According to it's establishing Constitution, Nigeria is a Kingdom with a King as it's Head of State. There is a current King and heir. Sherriff89 (talk) 06:09, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

 Not done: I am not sure whether you're genuinely ignorant or you're trolling. I'll assume the former now. Please read WP:CTW. – Ammarpad (talk) – Ammarpad (talk) 07:31, 18 August 2019 (UTC)

The Fula/Fulani and their share of the population.

@Al-sow: You seem to be editing the article in several places to state that the Fulani are one of the largest (either the top three or top four) ethnic groups numerically in the country, and have placed their language first in the list of most spoken indigenous languages. This seems not to be accurate. From the sources I can find, although the Fulani (at about 4-6% of the population) seem to perhaps be among the top five-seven numerically, they are far less numerous than the Yoruba (about 21%), Igbo (about 18%), and Hausa (about 25%), and also less than the Ijaw (who make up about 10%), and roughly equal or close in number to certain other groups such as the Kanuri and Ibibio (at about 4% and about 3.5% respectively. The Hausa make up about 25%, and the Hausa combined with the Fula make about 29% (see first link below). The Fula alone thus compise only about 4% of Nigeria (up to 6% according to some other sources), significantly less than several other groups. Please do not continue to make these edits unless you can provide a source that supports them. Thank you

See: https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/largest-ethnic-groups-in-nigeria.html

and see: https://www.indexmundi.com/nigeria/demographics_profile.html

—Skllagyook (talk) 21:45, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

This 👇 proves that the Fulani tribe is more numerous than other tribes

Ahmadu Bello – Sardauna of Sokoto and First Premier of Northern Region of Nigeria Shehu Shagari – Former President of Nigeria General Murtala Mohammed- Former Head of State of Nigeria Umaru Musa Yar'Adua – Former President of Nigeria Major General Mohammadu Buhari – Current President and Former Head of State of Nigeria Major General Shehu Musa Yar'Adua – Former Deputy Head of State, Nigeria Major General Tunde Idiagbon - (Fulani/Yoruba); Former Deputy Head of State, Nigeria Atiku Abubakar – Former Vice President of Nigeria Sa'adu Abubakar –Current Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria Dr. Muhammadu Barkinɗo Aliyu Mustapah Current Laamiɗo of Adamawa, Nigeria Dr. Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III Current Laamiiɗo of Gombe, Nigeria Alh Abbas Njidda Tafida OFR Current Laamiiɗo of Jalingo, Nigeria Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi - Former Governor of Kano State, Politician Alhaji Sule Lamido - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Former Governor of Jigawa State, Nigeria Amina J. Mohammed – Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations; Former Minister of Environment, Nigeria Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo – Secretary General of OPEC, Nigeria Dr. Ibrahim Gambari – Under-Secretary-General / Special Adviser – Africa United Nations; former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nigeria Ibrahim Dabo – Emir of Kano (1819–46), Nigeria Muhammadu Dikko – Emir of Katsina (1906–44), Nigeria Ado Bayero – Emir of Kano (1963–2014), Nigeria Dr. Abubakar Olusola Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Former President of the Senate Second Republic, Nigeria Gbemisola Ruqayyah Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Former Senator Kwara Central, Nigeria Dr. Bukola Saraki – (Fulani/Yoruba); Current President of the Senate; Former Governor of Kwara State and Former Senator Kwara Central, Nigeria Sanusi Lamido Sanusi – Emir of Kano, former Governor Central Bank; Nigeria Captain Muhammad Bala Shagari – Politician, Former Nigerian Army officer. Current Sarkin Mafaran Shagari and District Head of Shagari Local Government. Nigeria Bello Bala Shagari – Documentary filmmaker, a Youth Activist & Leader and the Current President of The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Nigeria Muhammadu Maccido – Former Sultan of Sokoto, Nigeria Dr. Rilwanu Lukman- Former Minister of Petroleum Resources and Mines, Power, Steel; and Former Secretary General OPEC. Dr. Jubril Aminu - Current Senator of Adamawa; Pioneer Cardiac Surgeon; Former Minister of Education/Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Former President OPEC Conference Muhammadu Ribadu - politician, First Minister of Defence after independence, Nigeria Aisha Buhari - First Lady of Nigeria Nuhu Ribadu - Former Pioneer Executive Chairman of Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Dr. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande- President-elect of the United Nations General Assembly, Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the UN, Former VP of UN General Assembly. Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar- Former Minister of State, Power and Steel (2002-2003), Former Minister of Commerce and Industry (2006-2007), Former Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Abuja (2007-2008). Al-sow (talk) 22:01, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

@Al-sow: That is not a source on (or relevant to) population figure/statistics (I'm afraid it is not a source at all, less so a reliable one) and it does not prove what you have said (It appears to be a more or less random list of individuals, who may or may not be Fulani, who have held prominent positions in Northern Nigerian states, listed without chronological context. That is not a source on the share of the population of any particular ethnic group). It is widely agreed (and there's much data to support it) that, in Nigeria, the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo are substantially more numerous than the Fulani (as are the Ijaw). Also, please see Wikipedia's guidelines on reliable sources.

—Skllagyook (talk) 22:07, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Know

It is not possible for the Fulani to have this priority over the remaining tribes of this land and they are not dominant. Al-sow (talk) 22:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

I want you to know

It is not possible to say that all the pre-eminence of the Fulani was felt over the other tribes of this country and that they were not the majority. Al-sow (talk) 22:53, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

not

@Al-sow: Population data relies on various methods, and Wikipedia relies on certain types of verifiable sources, and must reflect (scholarly) consensus on a given subject. There is a general consensus regarding which ethnic groups are the numerically largest in Nigeria (especially regarding the largest three: the Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo). The view that the Fula are the largest out of all of them in Nigeria is a highly eccentric view that is not supported by any source on population data as far as I know, let alone a reliable one. A list of names of individual people (such as you wrote) is not population data nor a reliable source. An opinion/personal opinion is not a sufficient basis for edits to Wikipedia; an edit must be supported by a (one or more) note/citation from a reliable source. Please see WP:SCIRS on Wikipedia's rules for identifying reliable sources.

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• Please run Refill https://tools.wmflabs.org/refill/ng/ on this page to clean up the references.
• Please change ISBN9781317184188 to ISBN|9781317184188 (add a vertical stroke after ISBN) Eastmain (talk • contribs) 23:17, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

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Nigeria is the best country in Africa.

I want people to help so that the truth can be revealed.Please you can help by sharing your thoughts. The invisible star (talk) 15:11, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

True info should not be omitted.

I read this page for the first time and I saw many info that is not really what we all know is true. Misinformation is not good especially on a Wikipedia Page, million people read Wikipedia so misleading them is not good thing to do. Please improve it. Nura Abdu (talk) 12:30, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

Which information was not true. The invisible star (talk) 15:15, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

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SDG 1 and 2: Nigeria is not doing well

SDG 1&2 states about No poverty and Zero hunger by the year 2030.The achievability in a developing economy such as Nigeria is very doubtful. Observation of the recent hikes in prices of staple Food such as rice,beans,yam etc and the hardship that accompanied the price hikes on the teeming poor population is better imagined. In the 2015, a bag of 50kg rice sold for N5000 was hikes to N23,000 in the current year 2020.

The SDG started counting from 2015,so we are past one- third of the time duration,remaiy another 10 years.This shows that no progress has been made to eradicate poverty and Zero hunger, instead of the economic decadence Nigerians are subjected to due to the hike in the prices of the staple foods. The Government will only roll out huge figures of investment in the Agricultural sector but a closer look at the claim revealed that most small scale farmers are excluded. For the SDG 1&2 to be attained, there is the need for a radical review of the policies and procedures to Target the largely poor populations Unclebakky2020 (talk) 06:12, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Hi Unclebakky2020, please indicate what you are suggesting to add to the Nigeria article exactly and which references you would use? I see from your talk page that you are part of the SDG edit-a-thon this week. Welcome! Please join us in the online collaborative Workplace (link is here) so I can discuss this with you further. EMsmile (talk) 08:20, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Women in Nigeria.

Women in Nigeria really have a real to play. both genders have often been on the stage fighting for equality. In Nigeria are women really allowed ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nast Nephaeus Tepikor (talk • contribs) 08:44, 4 September 2020 (UTC) 

Yes Women are allowed, it is getting better now than the Ages. Though we can increase the population of women who are allowed by creating awareness, What do you think? Leezie eia (talk) 10:20, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

Section Headings

I think we should just put some section headings, unbold them, and make them look more beautiful. I originally came to ask for permission to edit the page and then, do what I intended to do in my above made statements. What should I do? Should I just Leave it like that, or add headings? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nikola Tesla edit (talk • contribs) 21:06, 20 October 2020 (UTC)

Religion in Nigeria

What sources are there to claim Nigeria’s 53% population is Muslim? Nlivataye (talk) 09:54, 18 September 2020 (UTC)

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ni.html which is supported by https://2009-2017.state.gov/j/drl/rls/irf/2001/5687.htm that says approximately half the population practices Islam. There are a number of figures and sources in the Religion section, and I encourage you to read them. Sjö (talk) 18:56, 21 September 2020 (UTC)

The CIA Factbook doesn't seem to offer any explanation for its numbers though, so I'm not certain how reliable it is. For the pie graph, why not use the Pew numbers (50 % Muslim, 48.1 % Christian) given that they seem to be a generally reliable source? 2600:1702:6D0:5160:D8DF:A74F:E822:1A54 (talk) 22:11, 16 December 2020 (UTC)

Nigerian Muslim is more than 53 %, if we considered with the 3 tribe in Nigeria i.e Hausa Fulani, Yoruba and Kanuri, are major tribes in Nigeria. So 99, % of Hausa Fulani are Muslim and 60% of Yoruba are Muslim and History and analysis shows that 99.9% of Kanuri are Muslims, and those Kanuri people if go there and to find a Christian or other person that practicing any religion is hardly to get. So Muslims is more than 53 % of Nigerian. Iadamumar (talk) 11:05, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Sorry that's not how Wikipedia works. Regards, Stormy Chamber (talk) 13:46, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Northern Cameroon

The article states Northern Cameroon “chose to remain in Nigeria”. Since prior to the 1961 plebiscite it was part of British Cameroon, not Nigeria, it did not choose to remain in Nigeria, it chose to join Nigeria. I have corrected the article to reflect this. Ptilinopus (talk) 14:15, 6 February 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 March 2021

In the language section of this page about Nigeria, 'fier' links to a city in Albania, not an article about the language Fier.

I'm not sure how to change this. 49.180.96.188 (talk) 15:26, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Now linked to Fyer language. CMD (talk) 15:31, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Correct the language option of Urhobo-Isoko

Good afternoon sir/madam,

Thank you for your good work here on Wikipedia. Please I will love you to correct the other language option, Urhobo is a language on its own, Isoko is a language on it's own too.

I will be grateful to see the correction as best interest of the Isoko people at large.

Thanks Odezlord (talk) 14:04, 7 April 2021 (UTC)

Dubious

"There are 521 languages that have been spoken in Nigeria; nine of them are extinct." is absurdly precise; Nigeria, like most areas with language diversity, has language continuums where division into languages is arbitrary and debated. Moreover, I assume we're talking about modern Nigeria, since there have been probably thousands of uncounted languages which lived and died in the area since speaking humans first entered it. Languages of Nigeria starts "There are over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria.", which is much better. That article doesn't mention anything about extinction, but if this article insists, it should say something like "nine have gone extinct since 1960" or something of the like.--Prosfilaes (talk) 12:03, 26 June 2021 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 8 July 2021

In Nigeria, we drive on the left hand side and not on the right hand side. 105.112.43.170 (talk) 20:16, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

 Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Found in an online search: "Nigeria, a former British colony, had been driving on the left with British imported right-hand-drive cars, but when it gained independence, it wanted to throw off its colonial past and shifted to driving on the right in 1972." I also watched a Nigerian video that confirmed they drive on the right side of the road. P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 00:36, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Just to be clear, the "Driving side" in this article's infobox refers to the left- or right-hand traffic, so "right" indicates the side of the road on which drivers drive. It can be confusing when some people refer to "left- or right-hand traffic" and "left- or right-hand drive". If we talk about "traffic", then we mean that in Nigeria people drive on the right side of the road. But if we talk about "drive", then we mean that in Nigeria people sit on the left side of the seat to drive the vehicle (rather than on the right side of the seat as is done in some other countries such as in England). So apologies for the confusion, and thank you very much for your input! A reference citation has been placed in the infobox to help readers understand what Wikipedia means by "Driving side = right". P.I. Ellsworth  ed. ^put'r there 09:56, 9 July 2021 (UTC)

Society

Not contesting the factuality of any claims, but I noticed and thought it worth mentioning that everything under the "Society" heading is highly critical of the country, which as a reader either doesn't inspire confidence in the article's impartiality or misleads into thinking that there is nothing good about Nigerian society. If the only things worth mentioning are the negative points, one wonders whether "Social Issues" would be a more accurate heading for that section. -2001:BB6:A003:EDC4:452D:3CBD:B7B0:8531 (talk) 23:33, 9 August 2021 (UTC)

Etymology

Am I the only one to find the paragraph under "Etymology" (same as under article about "Niger") to be a desperate PC dodge worthy of "1984" or North Korea? (I expect this question to be taken down in 5 minutes) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:c003:f79e:752e:405c:4ac6:b809 (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Suggestion for section on science and technology

Hi, just a suggestion, many country articles have sections or subsections for 'science and technology', this could be a section on this article as well. The UNESCO Science Report may be a good place to start and can copied from directly using these instructions.

Thanks John Cummings (talk) 12:55, 3 September 2021 (UTC)