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The Nigerian Baptist Convention has its origins in an American mission of the International Mission Board in 1849 with the appointment of Rev. Thomas Jefferson Bowen as the first missionary to the country. He arrived in Badagry area of the current Lagos State on the 5th of August, 1850. [1][2] The Nigerian Baptist Convention was officially ...
Bodija,Ibadan. Died. 2007. Nationality. Nigerian. Occupation. Activist. Dare Odumuye was a Nigerian LGBTQ rights activist, one time executive director of Alliance Right Nigeria [1] and one of the foremost sexual right activist from Nigeria. [2] He was 2004 Ashoka fellow [3] and considered as the erelu of the Gay community in Nigeria.
Foreign reserves. $38.77 billion (31 December 2017 est.) [ 19 ] All values, unless otherwise stated, are in US dollars. Change in per capita GDP of Nigeria, 1950–2018. Figures are inflation-adjusted to 2011 International Geary-Khamis dollars. The economy of Nigeria is a middle-income, mixed economy and emerging market [ 27 ][ 28 ] with ...
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande GCON OFR (born 7 December 1957) is a Nigerian diplomat, academic and political scientist [ 1 ] who was the president of the United Nations General Assembly 74th session from 17 September 2019 to 15 September 2020. [ 2 ][ 3 ][ 4 ] He previously served as vice president of the 71st session from September 2016 to September ...
SDGS in Nigeria. Nigeria became a member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 October 1960. Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa and has the seventh-highest population in the world. [6] Nigeria gained independence on 1 October 1960. In 2012, Nigeria contributed the fifth largest number of peacekeepers to United Nations peacekeeping ...
Hafsat Olaronke Abiola-Costello, (21 August 1974) in Lagos, is a Nigerian human rights, civil rights and democracy activist, founder of the Kudirat Initiative for Democracy (KIND), which seeks to strengthen civil society and promote democracy in Nigeria. [1] She is President of Women in Africa Initiative (WIA), international platform for the ...
Operation Feed the Nation. Operation Feed the Nation was a national agricultural extension and mobilization program instituted by the military government of Nigeria in 1976 as a measure to achieve self sufficiency in food crop production and inspire a new generation to return to farming. [1]
Coal, petroleum reserves, natural gas, peat, hydroelectricity, solar and wind are major energy resources in Nigeria [3][4][5] and the country remains a top producer of crude oil and natural gas in Africa. Its production in 2022 averaged 1.2 million barrels of oil per day (bopd), [6] and 300 barrels per day (bpd) of condensate, making it the ...