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Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos This is the busiest airport in Nigeria. It was built during the WWII. It has two terminals: the International and Cargo; and the Domestic terminals. Until 1970s, it was known as Lagos international Airport. Its current name was after the Murtala Muhammed, a military head of state of Nigeria from 1975-1976. This prime airport of Nigeria is located in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria. Statistics for Murtala Muhammed International Airport Year Total passengers % Increase Freight (tons) Total Aircraft movements 2003 3,362,464 -% 51,826 62,439 2004 3,576,189 6% 89,496 67,208 2005 3,817,338 6.3% 63,807 70,893 2006 3,848,757 0.8% 83,598 74,650 2007 4,162,424 7.5% 81,537 2008 5,136,920 ...

Muhammadu Buhari General Muhammadu Buhari, now President Muhammadu Buhari was born in Daura, Katsina State in Nigeria in December 17, 1942. After his secondary school, he became interested in the military and started it in the old Nigerian Military Training College (NMTC), now Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna. That was in 1961. He proceeded to the Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot in England and became a commissioned officer afterwards. In 1965, he went for the Mechanical Transport Officers’ Course at the Army Mechanical Transport School in Borden, England. He went to the Defence Services’ Staff College, Wellington, India in 1973 and to the United States Army War College from June 1979 to June 1980. Muhammadu Buhari was a mastermind of December 31st, 1985 coup which ousted a democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari.  His administration was fraught with blunders which included the Umaru Dikko botched kidnap otherwise known as the Umar...

Aso Rock Villa Aso Rock Villa variously called Aso Villa, The State House or Presidential Villa located in the three arms zone of Central Business District in Abuja, is a seat of power of Nigerian Government. The monumental edifice was built in 1991 when Nigeria's capital city was moved from Lagos to Abuja the same year. It took its name from a natural feature in the outskirts of Abuja, the Aso rock. Aso means victory. Therefore it could loosely be translated: the Rock of Victory. The iconic national white edifice is capped with a green dome in the order of the Nigeria's flag. The very first president to live in the official residence was the then military head of state: General Ibrahim Babangida who left office after the bungled 1993 presidential election. Background provided by the gigantic Aso rock and the lush lawn and natural trees and floowers accentuated the official aura of the villa. Standing at the foot of a huge rock coupled with myths that the rock ...

Ariaria Market Ariaria Market in Nigeria is located at in the Eastern part of the country; precisely in Aba, Abia state. It is arguably the largest market East of Niger. It was founded in 1970 after the war and after the fire incidence that gutted Ekoha Market in Aba also. Though nobody gave it a chance of survival at the new location because it was sited at a swampy location on the outskirts of Aba, like magic, it soon grew in leaps and bounds to become a one-stop market where one could buy virtually all that one needs either in bulk or retail and at good prices. Most of the notorious products of Aba (Aba Made) were sold in the market. Various governments have attended to the swampy nature of the market and it presently wears a new look. Traders come from Ghana, Cameroon, Liberia, Togo and from even Congo, Equitorial Guinea and Ivory Coast to buy goods for resale in those countries. Some Europeans considered it a tourist attraction. Shoes produced in Aba and sold in t...

Kaduna City Kaduna State is a successor state of the old Northern Region of Nigeia which had its capital at Kaduna. The current Kaduna state was given its form in 1987 after Katsina state was carved out of her. It has population of about 6,006,562 according to 2006 census. About naming the city: the colonial masters learnt of the presence of ‘rafin kaduna’, which means the river of crocodiles. ‘kada’ is a Hausa word for "crocodile" while ‘rafi’ means a river; while the word ‘kaduna’ is the plural of ‘kada.’ The colonial administration then adopted the word ‘kaduna’ for its new headquarters. The distorted pronounciation by the whites however buried the true meaning of the name. Currently, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, is the governor of the state elected under the platform of the ruling party APC in the 2015 General Election. It has 23 Local Government Areas: Birni-Gwari, Chikun, Giwa, Igabi, Ikara, jaba, Jema'a, Kachia, Kaduna North, Kaduna South, Kagarko,...

The Seat of the Caliph The Sokoto Calipahate was founded in 19th Century precisely in 1809 by Usman Dan Fodio, who became the first Sultan of Sokoto; though he preferred the name, Sarki Musulumi to Sultan. Sarki Musulumi means the commander of the Muslim faithfuls. The Caliphate is a loose confederation of emirates that were under the authority of the Sultan. When Dan Fodio died in 1817,  he was succeeded by his son, Muhammad Bello. There was however feud between Bello and abdullahi, his uncle. This brought about the division of the Caliphate into two regions with their capitals in Sokoto and Gwandu. The Abdullahi division ruled over the Western divison of the Caliphate up to the modern Burkina Faso, former Upper Volta. The authority of the Sokoto division held sway nonetheless. Dan Fodio since the fall of Songhai in 1591 created the largest empire in Africa via his lightening Jihad.  The boundary of the Sokoto Caliphate extended to Kwanni and Maradi in Ni...

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 fil...