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| Zuma Rock |
Zuma rock is a natural feature of Nigeria. It is a giant rock of about 125 meters tall and about 3.1 km in circumference. The monolithic feature is along Abuja - kaduna road in Niger state, Nigeria. The geographical feature is depicted at the back of the 100 Naira note currency of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
There are agreements with foreign investors at making the rock a state-of-the-art tourist destination. Precisely in 2009, the governor of Niger state signed a memorandum of understanding with Canadian tourism development company to build a tourist resort village around the beautiful rock.
The Zuma rock features what some observers called a human face. The locals on their side believed that the rock has supernatural power. When an hotel that they built at the foot of the rock went out of business, the locals claimed that they knew that such would happen; that it could have been a pleasant surprise if the rock failed to doom the business.
In 2010, rumours filtered in about ritual killings around the rock and that politicians were the beneficiaries but the police after investigation debunked the the allegation.
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