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NIWA was declared the authorised agency in charge of inland Waterways operation by the supreme court in early January 2024 following a battle between the Lagos State Government and the Federal Government over the ownership of the waterways operation in Nigeria. [3] In Late September 2024, NIWA filed a lawsuit against Shell Development Company ...
The Republic of Benin and Nigeria contain the highest concentrations of Yoruba people and Yoruba faiths in all of Africa. Brazil , Cuba , Puerto Rico , Haiti , Jamaica , Trinidad and Tobago are the countries in the Americas where Yoruba cultural influences are the most noticeable, particularly in popular religions like Vodon, Santéria ...
Name Image Location Criteria Year Description; Sukur Cultural Landscape: Adamawa. Cultural (iii) (v) (vi) 1999 The Sukur Cultural Landscape, with the Palace of the Hidi (Chief) on a hill dominating the villages below, the terraced fields and their sacred symbols, and the extensive remains of a former flourishing iron industry, is a remarkably intact physical expression of a society and its ...
The Yoruba people (/ ˈ j ɒr ʊ b ə / YORR-uub-ə; [24] [25] Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá, Ọmọ Odùduwà, Ọmọ Káàárọ̀-oòjíire) [26] are a West African ethnic group who mainly inhabit parts of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo.
Lagferry works in conjunction with Lagos State Waterways Authority, National Inland Waterways Authority and Nigeria Maritime Administration and Safety Agency. Besides Lagferry, other private ferry operators also use modern ferry boats to provide commercial transport services between Ikorodu, Lagos Island, Apapa and Victoria Island. [7] [8]
The Nigerian Navy owes its origin to the Nigerian Marine. Formed in 1914 after the amalgamation of the then Northern and Southern Nigeria, the Nigerian Marine, as it became known after 1914, was a quasi-military organization. This force expanded to become the Southern Nigerian Marine in 1893.
Birniwa is a Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. Its headquarters is in the town of Birniwa. It has an area of 1,567 km 2 and a population of 142,329 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 731.
Nigeria is a very ethnically diverse country with 371 ethnic groups, the largest of which are the Hausa, Yoruba and the Igbo. [1] Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation.