Nigeria is a republic in West Africa with its southern coast at the eastern end of the Gulf of Guinea. It apparently got its name from the River Niger which flows through Nigeria. The wife of Lord Lugard, a British Governor General in the early 1900s when Nigeria was a British protectorate, came to Nigeria and referred to it as the area around the Niger which turned into the Niger area, and with time, became Nigeria. It is the most populated country in Africa, but relatively small in land mass compared to the other African countries.

Nigeria, indeed, is a very diverse nation. There are over 120 million people in Nigeria; more than four hundred ethnic groups wich include the yoruba, fulani, igbo, hausa, chamba, ekoi, tiv, edo, kanuri, ibibio, ijaw, nupe... just to mention a few; more than four hundred languages and over a thousand different dialects.

Different ethnic groups, different languages...One Country