The name Nigeria was taken from the Niger River running through the country. This name was coined on January 8, 1897, by British journalist Flora Shaw, who later married Lord Lugard, a British colonialadministrator. The

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Prehistory
Kainji Dam excavations revealed ironworking by the 2nd century BC. The transition from Neolithic times to the Iron Age was achieved without intermediate bronzeproduction. Others suggest the technology moved west

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Nigeria is a federal republic modelled after the United States, with executive power exercised by the President. The president is both

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Nigeria's mixed economy is the largest in Africa, the 26th-largest in the world by nominal GDP, and 25th-largest by PPP. It is a lower-middle-income

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Energy
Nigeria's primary energy consumption was about 108 Mtoe in 2011. Most of the energy comes from traditional

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The United Nationsestimates that the population of Nigeria in 2018 was at 195,874,685 , distributed as 51.7% rural and 48.3% urban, and with

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Nigeria is located in western Africa on the Gulf of Guinea and has a total area of 923,768 km (356,669 sq mi), making it the world's 32nd-largest country. Its borders span 4,047 kilometres (2,515 mi), and it shares borders with Benin (773 km or 480 mi), Niger (1,497 km or

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