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  Nigeria - MSN Encarta
Nigeria, republic in western Africa, with a coast along the Atlantic Ocean on the Gulf of Guinea.
Nigeria has a federal form of government and is divided into 36 states and a federal capital territory.
Nigeria is bounded by Cameroon to the east, Chad to the northeast, Niger to the north, Benin to the west, and the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean to the south.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557915/Nigeria.html   (1590 words)

  
  Nigeria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nigeria borders Republic of Benin to the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
Nigeria is divided roughly in three by the rivers Niger and Benue, which flow through the country from north-east and north-west to meet roughly in the centre of the country near the new capital city of Abuja.
Northern Nigeria was the location of half of all documented polio cases in 2003, but Muslim clerics have repeatedly inveighed against the vaccine as an effort by Westerners to sterilize young Nigerian Muslim girls.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nigeria   (3765 words)

  
 sociology - Nigeria
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country in West Africa and, by far, the most populated nation in Africa.
Nigeria is a Federal Republic, comprising 36 states plus the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja.
Northern Nigeria was the location of half of all documented polio cases in 2003, but Muslim clerics have repeatedly inveighed against the vaccine as an effort by Westerners to sterilize young Nigerian Muslim girls.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/Nigeria   (1447 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Federal republic
A federation is a state composed of a number of self-governing regions (often themselves referred to as 'states') united by a central, federal government.
In a federation, unlike in a unitary state, the self-governing status of autonomous regions is constitutionally entrenched and cannot be revoked by an unilateral decision of the central government.
These are the Federal Republic of Germany, the Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/federal-republic   (1490 words)

  
 Federal republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A federal republic is a republic constituting a union of constitutionally recognised self-governing sub-units called state s or district s.
Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia Embassy of the Republic of the Sudan in Vienna, accredited to the Federal Republic of Austria, the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Slovenia, and as the Permanent Mission to the United Nations and other in
UNEP Balkans United Nations Environment Programme is conducting environmental assessments and clean-up in Albania, in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Federal_republic.html   (669 words)

  
 The Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2300 AD
Since Nigeria has long been a mecca for africans seeking educations and jobs, it is not unusual to find speakers of any of the numerous native languages within her borders.
Nigeria Defense Forces mainly consist of four branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, and the Paramilitary Police Force, as well as specialty units such as Commandos, and the "Freefallers", which are a form of Space Military that provide security aboard L-5 and Nigeria's few other space assets.
Since Nigeria is the world-leading producer of both Columbite and Tin, it has amassed great stores of Tantalum since the AR-I discovered its use in The Hauptmann-Mbasso stutterwarp unit (where it is used in dissipating gravimetric charge through a tantalum-ceramic coil) circa 2247.
home.earthlink.net /~ad2300/nigeria.htm   (2873 words)

  
 Cameroon v. Nigeria: Preliminary Objections of the Federal Republic of Nigeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
North East Nigeria is the area North of the Benue River, bordered in the North and East by the countries of Niger, Chad and Cameroon and in the West by the Nigerian State boundaries of Kano and Kaduna.
Nigeria only consented by its Declaration to accept the Court's compulsory jurisdiction on the basis of the existence of a reciprocity of which it was, or had a reasonable opportunity of being, aware.
Nigeria recognizes that Kontcha is within the sovereign right of the Republic of Cameroon to apply her relevant laws within her territory on immigrants or visitors from other countries who have not met legal entry requirements.
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/icn/icnpleadings/icn_ipleadings_951201_prelimanaryobjectionsnigeria.htm   (15351 words)

  
 Welcome to Nigerian Planet.com
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa and the most populous country on the African continent.
Nigeria shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north, and borders the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
As Biafra was now perceived as expansionist, this provoked a violent response from the federal military government who retook the Midwest with ease, escalating the conflict into a full-scale war which resulted in between 1 to 3 million deaths and the reincorporation of Biafran territory into the republic after a victory for the federation.
www.nigeria-planet.com   (2393 words)

  
 Mother Land Nigeria - Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in Western Africa.
The most populated country in Africa, Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a sixteen-year interruption by a series of corrupt and brutal military dictators.
Nigeria borders the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, Niger in the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the south.
www.motherlandnigeria.net   (184 words)

  
 AEGiS: Federal Republic of Nigeria
Nigeria’s epidemic is characterized by one of the most rapidly increasing rates of new HIV/AIDS cases in West Africa.
Adult HIV prevalence increased from 1.8 percent in 1991 to 5.8 percent in 2001.
Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) Nigeria is a media-based non-governmental organisation in Nigeria working in the field of HIV/AIDS and development.
www.aegis.com /countries/nigeria.html   (985 words)

  
 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any persons or group of persons take control of the Government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
Nigeria is one indivisible and indissoluble sovereign state to be known by the name of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
The legislative powers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall be vested in a National Assembly for the Federation, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
www.nigeria-law.org /ConstitutionOfTheFederalRepublicOfNigeria.htm   (2223 words)

  
 Nigeria - Federal Republic of Nigeria (federal state
The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country in West Africa.
Nigeria re-achieved democracy in 1999 after a long sixteen years interruption by corrupt and brutal series of military dictators and counter coups.
A decree was issued, that March, to abolish the federation, and unify the federal and regional civil servants.
www.naturemagics.com /world-guide/nigeria.shtm   (4663 words)

  
 To H.E. Samuel A. Otuyelu, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
To H.E. Samuel A. Otuyelu, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria
Indeed, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is facing a very delicate and even critical moment in its history.
In the Nigeria of the new millennium, there should be no place for intimidation and domination of the poor and the weak, for arbitrary exclusion of individuals and groups from political life, for the misuse of authority or the abuse of power.
www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/speeches/2000/oct-dec/documents/hf_jp-ii_spe_20001214_nigeria-ambassador_en.html   (835 words)

  
 Nigeria
Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa.
Organized as a loose federation of self-governing states, the independent nation faced the overwhelming task of unifying a country with 250 ethnic and linguistic groups.
A UN fact-finding mission in 1996 reported that Nigeria's “problems of human rights are terrible and the political problems are terrifying.” During the 1970s, Nigeria had the 33rd highest per-capita income in the world, but by 1997 it had dropped to the 13th poorest.
www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107847.html   (1168 words)

  
 GlobaLex - GUIDE TO NIGERIAN LEGAL INFORMATION
The current legislation in force at the federal level is largely contained in the Laws of the Federation of Nigeria 1990 (LFN).
Federal laws under the Military, known as Decrees, and state laws, known as Edicts, form the bulk the primary legislation.
Customary law is usually enforced in customary courts, the courts at the lowest rung of the hierarchy of courts, which in most cases are presided over by non-legally trained personnel, though higher courts are equally permitted to observe and to enforce the observance of rules of customary law by their enabling laws.
www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/Nigeria.htm   (3994 words)

  
 Country Information: Nigeria
The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria states that “Every person shall be entitled to assemble freely and associate with other persons, and in particular he may form or belong to …” any association for the protection of his interests.
It is important to note that the Nigerian Criminal Code Act, which is applicable in the southern states of Nigeria, prohibits certain societies as unlawful, based on their activities.
Section 15(3)(d) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (1999)prohibits discrimination on the basis of place of origin, sex, religion, status, ethnic or linguistic association or ties.
www.usig.org /countryinfo/nigeria.asp   (2411 words)

  
 Nigeriaworld Letters & Viewpoints (MNN's True Federation Charter for The Federal Republic of Nigeria)
Federating Units or Regions should be free to create and fund their own LGAs/ Provinces and Councils as they deem fit, provided that guidelines and standards to be agreed by the Federating Units and given effect in the relevant federal enactment are complied with.
The Federating Units or Regions may acquire these and other powers listed in the Exclusive List of the 1999 Constitution, as the ethnic nationalities in conference may agree, provided that the extent of Resource Control by the Federating Units is proportional to the share of power accruing to them and vice versa.
All federal laws must be such as to not discriminate between Federating Units, or such as to disadvantage or discriminate against a citizen by virtue of that citizen's residence in one federating unit and not in the other.
nigeriaworld.com /articles/2000-2001/mnn_charter.html   (4616 words)

  
 CBC News Indepth: Nigeria
Nigeria was a British colony from 1900 to 1914 and a protectorate until independence on October 1, 1960.
Nigeria moved towards democracy with the 1999 election of a civilian president, Olusegun Obasanjo.
Nigeria is Africa's most populous country and is composed of more than 250 ethnic groups.
www.cbc.ca /news/background/nigeria   (321 words)

  
 Nigeria
Nigeria, Federal Republic of, republic in western Africa, bounded by Niger on the north, by Chad and Cameroon on the east, by the Gulf of Guinea on the south, and by Benin on the west.
Following a period of tension among its ethnic groups, especially the Yoruba of the southwest, the Ibo of the southeast, and the Hausa and Fulani of the north, Nigeria was ruled by the military from 1966 to 1979.
In the east is the Adamawa Plateau, which borders Cameroon and in which is Nigeria's highest point, Dimlang (Vogel Peak), 2042 m (6699 ft) high.
www.afroyonda.info /country/ng.html   (498 words)

  
 OLPC Nigeria - OLPCWiki
A: Nigeria's official language is English along with Edo, Efik, Adamawa Fulfulde, Hausa, Idoma, Igbo, Central Kanuri and Yoruba, but there are more than 250 languages spoken in the country, Ethnologue even lists 510 spoken languages.
Nigeria joind OLPC last summer and the news is they have paid in full, and now just waiting for the laptops!
One of our XOs (among the first 40 units to arrive in Nigeria) nicknamed alteq eng 1 is displaying some anomalous behavior: Whenever its browser and RSS viewer (Penguin TV) are launched, their icons slowly/gently "flash" in the "circle of running applications".
wiki.laptop.org /go/OLPC_Nigeria   (522 words)

  
 Rejoinder of The Federal Republic of Nigeria - January 2001 - Part II chapter 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
The legal relevance of the IGN delimitation has been assessed in the previous Chapter, and it is a basic premise of the present Chapter that title to the named villages vests in Nigeria independently both of the present status of the delimitation as such, and of the incidence of the provisional alignment.
The Government of Nigeria reaffirms the importance and the reality of the historical associations and, in particular, the preservation of the system of traditional rulers and the significant role of the Shehu of Bornu.
By its action, the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is once again contesting the long-established frontier between the two countries, which has recently been defined in a multilateral context.
www.icj-cij.org /icjwww/idocket/icn/icnpleadings/icn_rejoinder/icn_ipleadings_nigeria_rejoinder_20010101_Ch05.htm   (8046 words)

  
 Amnesty International Report 2002 - Africa - NIGERIA
The Minister of Justice and Attorney-General of the Federation, Chief Bola Ige, was murdered in December, apparently in a political assassination.
In December the Federal Minister of Justice publicly declared that she would not be executed.
In southwest Nigeria, the Oodua People's Congress, an organization promoting Yoruba ethnic interests, was banned in April after members were accused of fomenting violence in which dozens of people died, mostly northerners and including some police officers.
web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/afr/nigeria!Open   (1868 words)

  
 Address to the New Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Holy See
Indeed, the Federal Republic of Nigeria is facing a very delicate and even critical moment in its history.
In the Nigeria of the new millennium, there should be no place for intimidation and domination of the poor and the weak, for arbitrary exclusion of individuals and groups from political life, for the misuse of authority or the abuse of power.
In fact, the key to resolving economic, political, cultural and ideological conflicts–whether in Nigeria or in Africa as a whole–is justice; and justice is not complete without commitment to a real and effective solidarity, without an attitude of humble, generous service to the common good.
www.saint-mike.org /Papal-Library/John_PaulII/Addresses/December_14a.html   (849 words)

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