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famous buildings in nigeria
Nigeria has most of the most magnificent and famous buildings in Lagos and Abuja. It is one of the most developed nations in the continent of Africa and most developed. Nigeria boosts of an ever growing economy. It has one of the tallest buildings named Intercontinental Lagos located in Lagos Island. Its length is 328ft tall. Other buildings are Overgate Nigeria limited, Nigerian Presidential complex, Millennium tower Abuja and Stallion Plaza of Union Bank of Nigeria which is also quite tall.
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High on Nigeria's southern mountains, the slopes are covered by thick rain forest. Green plants grow everywhere, broken by flashes of color from flowers, fruits, birds, and butterflies. This is the home of rare western lowland gorillas, once thought to be extinct in Nigeria.
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Nigerian cuisine consists of dishes or food items from the hundreds of ethnic groups that comprise the West African nation of Nigeria. Like other West African cuisines, it uses spices and herbs in conjunction with palm oil or groundnut oil to create deeply flavoured sauces and soups often made very hot with chili peppers. Nigerian feasts are colourful and lavish, while aromatic market and roadside snacks cooked on barbecues or fried in oil are plentiful and varied
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He played the role of Elrond, Lord of Rivendell, in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, and starred as the antagonist Agent Smith in the Matrix Trilogy. He also played V in V for Vendetta, Red Skull in Captain America: The First Avenger, and multiple characters in Cloud Atlas.
OFFICIAL NAME: Federal Republic of Nigeria
FORM OF GOVERNMENT: Federal republic
CAPITAL: Abuja
POPULATION: 135,031,164
OFFICIAL LANGUAGES: English
MONEY: Naira
AREA: 356,667 square miles (923,768 square kilometers)
MAJOR MOUNTAIN RANGE: Cameroonian Highlands
MAJOR RIVERS: Niger, Benue
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Nigerian football team
168.8 million (2012)
The Nigeria national football team, nicknamed Super Eagles or previously Green Eagles, is the national team representing Nigeria and is controlled by the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF). During April 1994, Super Eagles ranked 5th in the FIFA World Rankings, the highest ranking achieved by an African football team. They are the current Africa Cup of Nations champions. They have won the Africa Cup of Nations a total of 3 times, and have reached the FIFA World Cup round of 16 twice. They have qualified for five of the last six World Cups, with their first appearance coming in the United States in 1994.
Nigeria, once in the heart of the tropical rainforest belt, has lost about 95% of its total forest cover and now has to import 75% of the timber it needs for its own purposes. Until recently, forests in the east were largely spared, because the terrain made it difficult for heavy machinery and road building. Now that the western forests have almost gone and roads in the east have improved, logging companies are moving eastwards. In 1991, the government set up the Cross River National Park in order to protect Nigeria’s last large remaining area of rainforest. This forest is particularly important because it is one of the most species rich in Africa. As well as the huge diversity of plant life, many endangered animal species live there, including gorillas, leopards, chimpanzees, forest elephants and drill monkeys.