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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 ...
Images of cities in Nigeria (2 C) L. Nigerian logos (2 F) R. Images of Rivers State (1 C) This page was last edited on 17 July 2023, at 06:18 (UTC). Text is available ...
[45] [46] [47] The museum also contains photographs of the different presidents of the states of Nigeria. [48] In the textile section, there is a collection of batik fabrics. [49] The museum also has Ere figurines., [24] photographs on the colonization of Nigeria [35] and exhibits related to the culture of Ifẹ, an ancient Yoruba city. [29]
Or what everyday life was like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago. There’s an online community dedicated to sharing photos, scanned documents, articles, and personal anecdotes from the ...
In 1979, Nigeria's National Commission of Museums and Monuments Decree established the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM), which is used to manage Nigeria's cultural heritage. NCMM Decree number 77 made it illegal for anyone other than authorized personnel to buy or sell antiquities within Nigeria or export an antiquity ...
Nigeria has one official language which is English, as a result of the British colonial rule over the nation. Nevertheless, it is not spoken as a first language in the entire country because other languages have been around for over a thousand years making them the major languages in terms of numbers of native speakers.
The Ibibio people (/ ɪ b ɪ ˈ b i. oʊ / ih-bih-BEE-oh) are a coastal people in Southern Nigeria. [5] They are mostly found in Akwa Ibom, Cross River, and the Eastern part of Abia State. [6] During the colonial period in Nigeria, the Ibibio Union asked for recognition by the British as a sovereign nation. [7]
The Igbo people, commonly and often referred to as Ibo people, are one of the largest ethnic groups to ever exist in Africa; they have a total population of about 20 million people. Most people who are a part of this ethnic group are based in the southeastern part of Nigeria, they contribute to about 17 percent of the country's population.