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Second Largest Metro Area in Africa!

I’m not sure why Lagos is listed as the second largest metropolitan area in Africa when it is in fact the largest by far. It seems like the definition being used is city proper, which is not what the article is referring to. I’ll edit and add some sources later unless someone knows otherwise. Andyharbor (talk) 12:59, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Size of Nigeria.

Size is given in first instance in kilometres and miles - should be square kilometres and square miles. Number given for square miles does not correlate correctly with number given for square kilometres. Rsallan (talk) 00:06, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

 Done Looks like someone changed it from just text to a template and accidentally used the wrong units. Should be corrected now. Thanks Cannolis (talk) 01:30, 25 October 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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Edith Request

Moved from User talk:Haparanda4

 – Z1720 (talk) 15:38, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

We checked the Nigeria page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigeria) most times because we publish news relying on constant research on the page. We believed an anti-Nigeria group or their sympathizer from MASOP, IPOB or BIAFRA cessationists have tampered with the "Nigeria" page on Wikipedia. They have done major edits on the Nigeria Page by undermining other ethnic groups giving a false narrative, biased rhetoric, and establishing themselves as the best human in Nigeria while disrespecting others groups. Most of the anticipated edit would be in technology, Transportation, Religion, Literature, Comedy & Cinema.

The edits ignored the restrictions of Wikipedia that says: 1. "do not create or edit article for your organization" 2. "independent reliable source" Sources cited are unreliable because the contents of the sources are created only by their members.

The whole change is an embarrassment to Nigerians. The members of the group IPOB and others that are promoting the tribal conflict and hate are in our opinion behind the last major edit on the Nigeria page. We request that the Nigerian page be reversed to its previous state or we request to make an accurate, transparent, and all ethnic represented edit.

Haparanda4 (talk) 09:39, 24 January 2022 (UTC) Thanks

Hi Haparanda4, I have checked the history and see no recent large-scale edits. Could you specifically point to the old state you refer to? (I have removed the edit request template for the moment.) Best, CMD (talk) 15:52, 25 January 2022 (UTC)

Population size

Nigeria has the largest population size, but it isn't even the largest country in Africa. It would be nice if the article could explain why there are so many people in Nigeria. Is it because of crop? Weather? Climate? Right now a visitor does not really know. 2A02:8388:1604:F600:A023:1A46:73DC:AD2 (talk) 12:31, 2 February 2022 (UTC)

Why Nigeria is call Nigeria?

Smooth and clear 36.37.197.96 (talk) 00:50, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Nigeria#Etymology (CC) Tbhotch^™ 01:56, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

Second sentence word order

Hello, the second sentence of the article ends with "and the Gulf of Guinea to the south in the Atlantic Ocean". This seems to indicate that Nigeria itself is in the Atlantic Ocean rather than the Gulf of Guinea being in the Atlantic Ocean. I suggest changing it to "and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south" for clarity, but am not entitled to make the edit myself. Thanks for considering this idea. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.30.70.42 (talk) 07:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

Incorrect noun

This article and some of the related articles misuse the word "civilization." For example, the Nok culture was not a "civilization," when using the strict definition of "civilization" and the requirements for being named as such. The Nok people were not literate, and I believe the nationwide growing, storing, and distribution of food was never law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Livylee (talk • contribs) 19:05, 27 April 2022 (UTC)

God ranking

The gdp rankings in the text (25th in terms of ppp and nominally) do not match the rankings on the gdp wiki pages (26th and 31st) 94.234.112.187 (talk) 21:02, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Neutral in editing.

I removed obvious advertisement and promotional piece on the page. 2 hours ago, my edits were reverted by Abal126; without any reason what-so-ever. And so, I’ll brought it here to proper discussion. Pinging, HandsomeBoy and Idoghor Melody for your inputs. R E A D I N G ^{Talk to the Beans?} 05:55, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Reading Beans and HandsomeBoy, I have restored revision by RB and warned the disruptive editor. Happy Sunday guys. Comr Melody Idoghor (talk) 07:39, 31 July 2022 (UTC)

Good one. Just seeing this.HandsomeBoy (talk) 11:16, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

31st largest economy not 31th

There's a typo, I can't edit it though. Higgs241 (talk) 03:42, 15 September 2022 (UTC)

 Done. Good catch. LilianaUwU ^{(talk / contribs)} 08:39, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

history

Who fought for nigeria independence 105.112.184.147 (talk) 19:49, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

2023 president election

This section is super-biased. Are we supporting this specific candidate because they're labor party? I know wikipedia likes to subtly push for social democratism / democratic socialism whenever no one is looking, but this is a little on the nose, isn't it?

I don't know anything about Nigeria which is why I came here. I have zero stake in the candidates and don't actually care about the outcome of the election on a personal level, so this is fully neutral and not meant to be political. On the other hand, I'm kind of irritated that I can't satisfy my curiosity voyage without having someone obviously try to manipulate me, so if someone who is smarter than me can fix this, that would be super! But also, I'm too dumb to do the neutrality thingy and also too insecure to actual edit anything directly, so I'm just leaving this here and letting someone else who is good at things do that instead.

Edit like 2 min later: wanted to clarify I'm referring to the last subsection under the "Fourth Republic (1999–present)" section. Sorry if I didn't edit properly. I'm bad at wikipedia.

2600:6C67:8C00:31D3:F088:CAD3:4FCF:277 (talk) 06:23, 10 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 18 October 2022

Hello, in the Religion Sidebar, I checked your source and your figures are wrong. The correct values are: Muslim 53.5%, Roman Catholic 10.6%, other Christian 35.3%, other .6% (2018 est.) The values are also from 2018, not from 2020. Ocoates (talk) 15:11, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

 Partly done: I have adjusted the year to 2018 per the source. Islam is interchangeable with Muslim and Roman Catholic and Christian were combined together into the label of Christianity (10.6 + 35.3 = 45.9). I'm not quite certain whether these practices for the infobox are correct, but the figures appear to be correct in any case. —Sirdog (talk) 02:20, 20 October 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2022

Failure of Nigeria Government on Ondo south District Electricity

Ondo South is an oil-producing district that is very significant to the economic balancing of this country. It is injustice and insensitive to keep such a people in decades of grind poverty and insecurity through the conspicuous consumption maltreatment of a service provider as the BEDC. The riverine communities have been disconnected from the national grid by Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) for over 10 years.

Hundreds of communities in the Ondo South senatorial district of Ondo State have been without electricity supply for the past 11 years despite the incessant cries and agitations of the residents of the affected communities. The senatorial district comprises six local government areas, namely the Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo, Odigbo, Okitipupa, Irele, Ese Odo and Ilaje LGAs.

Ilaje is an oil producing area while Okitipupa has a new power transmission plant which has yet to be connected to the national grid at Omotoso town. Despite all these, the senatorial district is still in the throes of excruciating blackout. One of the residents in the area told our correspondent that a branch of a new generation bank in Ore town in the Odigbo LGA had stopped operating following the huge amount spent on fuel to power its generator. Prices of goods and services were said to be on high side in the affected communities due to the lingering electricity challenge. Many artisans such as welders, barbers and electricians, have been forced to abandon their jobs for menial jobs. Others joined okada riders (commercial motorcyclists).

“Many in this uncharted business lost their lives or became permanently incapacitated as the business is prone to hazards. Many others who could not venture into that line either become frustrated or lost focus and ended up as miscreants. This is disgusting to hear in modern age.” However, the BEDC in a statement asked the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and people of the state to blame the Transmission Company of Nigeria for the poor supply of electricity in some parts of Ondo South.

Reacting to complaints by Akeredolu about the outage, the power distribution company appealed to him to put pressure on the TCN and other Federal Government-related institutions to create an enabling environment for BEDC to serve its customers better by addressing some technical constraints.

The BEDC said one of the constraints was the repair of the faulty breaker on the 30MVA TCN’s transformer which affected power supply to the Ondo South area causing poor and non-useful ‘candle light’. It also called for the replacement of the unstable Ife/Oshogbo 132KV undersized line and the recommencing/completion of the proposed 132/33KV, 2x 60MVA at Erinje in Okitipupa which would provide capacity for up to 90 megawatts of power when completed.

The statement read in part, “When this is completed, it will be able to take the transmitted power and distribute same to customers in other parts of Ondo South, but this will only serve an additional 25 per cent of the power needs in this area. “This is because the estimated total power supply needed is 47.6MW and only additional 11MW will be available from this TCN source, hence there will still be a shortfall of about 36.6MW.” Magnus ayomide (talk) 17:17, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 November 2022 (2)

Failure of Nigeria Government on Ondo south District Electricity

Ondo South is an oil-producing district that is very significant to the economic balancing of this country. It is injustice and insensitive to keep such a people in decades of grind poverty and insecurity through the conspicuous consumption maltreatment of a service provider as the BEDC. The riverine communities have been disconnected from the national grid by Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) for over 10 years.

Hundreds of communities in the Ondo South senatorial district of Ondo State have been without electricity supply for the past 11 years despite the incessant cries and agitations of the residents of the affected communities. The senatorial district comprises six local government areas, namely the Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo, Odigbo, Okitipupa, Irele, Ese Odo and Ilaje LGAs.

Ilaje is an oil producing area while Okitipupa has a new power transmission plant which has yet to be connected to the national grid at Omotoso town. Despite all these, the senatorial district is still in the throes of excruciating blackout. One of the residents in the area told our correspondent that a branch of a new generation bank in Ore town in the Odigbo LGA had stopped operating following the huge amount spent on fuel to power its generator. Prices of goods and services were said to be on high side in the affected communities due to the lingering electricity challenge. Many artisans such as welders, barbers and electricians, have been forced to abandon their jobs for menial jobs. Others joined okada riders (commercial motorcyclists).

“Many in this uncharted business lost their lives or became permanently incapacitated as the business is prone to hazards. Many others who could not venture into that line either become frustrated or lost focus and ended up as miscreants. This is disgusting to hear in modern age.” However, the BEDC in a statement asked the Ondo State Governor Rotimi Akeredolu and people of the state to blame the Transmission Company of Nigeria for the poor supply of electricity in some parts of Ondo South.

Reacting to complaints by Akeredolu about the outage, the power distribution company appealed to him to put pressure on the TCN and other Federal Government-related institutions to create an enabling environment for BEDC to serve its customers better by addressing some technical constraints.

The BEDC said one of the constraints was the repair of the faulty breaker on the 30MVA TCN’s transformer which affected power supply to the Ondo South area causing poor and non-useful ‘candle light’. It also called for the replacement of the unstable Ife/Oshogbo 132KV undersized line and the recommencing/completion of the proposed 132/33KV, 2x 60MVA at Erinje in Okitipupa which would provide capacity for up to 90 megawatts of power when completed.

The statement read in part, “When this is completed, it will be able to take the transmitted power and distribute same to customers in other parts of Ondo South, but this will only serve an additional 25 per cent of the power needs in this area. “This is because the estimated total power supply needed is 47.6MW and only additional 11MW will be available from this TCN source, hence there will still be a shortfall of about 36.6MW.” Magnus ayomide (talk) 17:17, 11 November 2022 (UTC) Magnus ayomide (talk) 17:21, 11 November 2022 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion

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National Language

The National Language of Nigeria is English (evidently). All Nigeria's founding documents are written in English and it is the language used in all forms of Governance, Business and Education. In addition it is the language of all prominent Nigerian writers. It is the nominal language of oath taking and the national anthem. Why instead, are three tribal languages that are typically only spoken within those individual tribes listed as they do not represent Nigerian nationhood (in fact historically, quite the opposite). 2001:8003:70F5:2400:8437:139A:EDC0:DC8 (talk) 00:01, 14 February 2023 (UTC)

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Largest city

Lagos is the largest city by population, not by land area 185.69.145.198 (talk) 08:36, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 5 March 2023

I just have to change the president from Buhari to Tinubu, since he is the presidential-elect of the elections this week, I noticed it hadn't been changed and as a Nigerian wanted to do it myself. This is my first edit. S0meguysmells (talk) 04:31, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. M.Bitton (talk) 13:56, 5 March 2023 (UTC)

Wait till he is sworn in 185.69.145.198 (talk) 08:37, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: IPE Money and Finance IMF WB 2023

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Wiki Education assignment: IPE Money and Finance IMF WB 2023

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Semi-protected edit request on 12 August 2023

Add Wildlife of Nigeria to Geography section. 2600:6C50:7EF0:4A70:E8BF:AB24:F9E3:DB97 (talk) 09:32, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

 Done — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 10:28, 12 August 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 September 2023

Please update the capital of Nigeria from Abuja to FCT (Federal Capital Territory) Abuja is an area council in FCT and it is not the capital of Nigeria LovingBrother (talk) 12:38, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: Abuja is the capital of Nigeria: described as such in the Abuja and the Federal Capital Territory articles. M.Bitton (talk) 13:32, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Nigeria demographics

According to the CIA factbook and Census Hausas are 30% and Yoruba are 15.5% and 15.2% respectively. WikiFan45TY (talk) 02:58, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Formation

Nri kingdom 900 AD Kingdom of Kano 999 Kingdom of Benin 1258 Kingdom of Oyo 1389 Kane-Bornu Empire 1392 Sokoto Caliphate 1804 2A02:C7C:6621:7400:D4C:DA0F:A7B1:2E95 (talk) 11:42, 8 October 2023 (UTC)

change the kilometres to kilometers

Michal Švrlo (talk) 18:39, 2 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done Rasnaboy (talk) 08:06, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 23 December 2023

I lob me (talk) 18:31, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

 Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Bsoyka (talk) 18:35, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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no mention of capital city

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuja 2A02:3033:600:CD4A:D992:6FAF:2661:D8B5 (talk) 10:55, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

History in Nigerian writers

Esther Jummai Bali (born 1947) is a Nigerian writer of folktale stories. Kale-Mize13 (talk) 18:34, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

Watchers?

Is anyone watching this page? Presumably nobody noticed the addition of Category:Country Alliance (Dominican Republic) politicians to the article more than a month ago? AusLondonder (talk) 15:04, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Government

write out all the political parties has ever recorded 197.211.59.3 (talk) 17:16, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

Accuracy dispute

Why is this section's accuracy being disputed? Jarble (talk) 18:49, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

It was added here by Watercheetah99 with the edit summary "This section is a bit of a mess, seemingly selective data points are used for some things while other stuff is just fabricated — it claimed the NW was 99% Muslim without sourcing and that the middle belt has "a small proportion of Muslims", both things that no one could credibly claim considering significant non-Muslim areas in the NW and the large Muslim minority in most of the Middle Belt. Needs clean-up." CMD (talk) 01:43, 27 May 2024 (UTC)

New National anthem

Nigeria changed its National anthem on 29 May 2024 which is being reported. The audio file of the anthem have to be uploaded to Wikimedia commons first for inclusion on Wikipedia.

What do you think? wɔːr (talk) 05:44, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Link wɔːr (talk) 05:48, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

National Anthem section

I reasoned this article page should have a separate section explaining in details towards the change of National anthem.

It was formerly "Nigeria We Hail Thee" and then "Arise, O Compatriot" and then back to "Nigeria We Hail Thee"

IMO, this needs clarity in a section on the article page, Nigeria wɔːr (talk) 05:54, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

@War Term I already uploaded Nigeria we hail thee on wikimedia Aiaikz (talk) 12:29, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

Can you help me with the link? wɔːr (talk) 14:46, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

@War Term I'm sorry for being late, but here's the link https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=Nigeria+we+hail+thee+&title=Special:MediaSearch&type=audio Aiaikz (talk) 11:28, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Format the title to be accurate. Who is the author? It can't be unknown author. ENGAGE (talk) 14:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

@War Term Well, In the original website the author was written as "guest" and I don't know who is the author so I put it as "unknown author" Aiaikz (talk) 23:55, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

Try putting the name of the website. Chat Term talk 06:24, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

Economy section

the economy section of this article states that the economy of Nigeria is the largest in Africa while the overview section and the link provided show that it is the fourth largest 2601:681:4D00:5150:D9A4:D6E6:D8DA:920A (talk) 09:47, 24 July 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 10 September 2024

Request to add

Media

Main article: Mass media in Nigeria

under the section Nigeria#Culture.

42.60.108.206 (talk) 11:35, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

 Not done: Edits are not helpful. Please see your talk page. ⸺(Random)staplers 19:13, 10 September 2024 (UTC)