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Nigerian Army

Nigerian Army: land component of Nigeria's Armed Forces, headed by the Chief of Army Staff, tracing origins to the 1863 Glover Hausas; expanded to 12 divisions in 2026, fighting Boko Haram and banditry.

Nigerian bandit conflict

The Nigerian bandit conflict is an armed conflict in northwestern and north-central Nigeria between criminal gangs known as bandits and the Nigerian state, centered on Zamfara and driven by cattle rustling and kidnapping for ransom.

Oct 10, 2026

Nigerian banking crisis (1991–1995)

The Nigerian banking crisis of 1991–1995 was a systemic wave of bank distress in which roughly half of Nigeria's banks became insolvent after liberalized licensing under the 1986 Structural Adjustment Programme.

Nigerian Bar Association

The Nigerian Bar Association is a non-profit association of all lawyers called to the Bar in Nigeria, with more than 140,000 members in 128 branches.

Nigerian Breweries

Nigerian Breweries is a Nigerian brewing company founded in Lagos in 1946 by UAC and Heineken, best known for Star Lager, its first beer, launched in 1949.

Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) is Nigeria's statutory civil aviation regulator, created by Decree 49 of 1999 and headquartered at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

Nigerian Civil War

Nigerian Civil War, or Biafran War (6 July 1967 – January 1970): conflict between Nigeria's federal government and the secessionist Republic of Biafra, ended by a starvation blockade and famine that killed up to two million and reshaped global humanitarianism.

Nigerian Civil War literature

Nigerian Civil War literature is the poetry, drama, fiction, memoir, and journalism produced in response to the Nigerian Civil War of 1967 to 1970, a watershed in Nigerian literary history.

Nigerian Communications Commission

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is the independent regulator of Nigeria's communications sector, established in 1992 and operating under the Nigerian Communications Act 2003, licensing operators and managing spectrum.

Nigerian cuisine

Nigerian cuisine: cooking of Nigeria's ~250 ethnic groups, based on yam, cassava, rice and maize with spiced soups, swallows, jollof rice, and suya; regional, historically layered, not yet UNESCO-inscribed.

Nigerian Defence Academy

The Nigerian Defence Academy, formerly the Nigerian Military Training College, is the Kaduna institution that trains officer cadets of the Nigerian Armed Forces and has awarded degrees since 1985.

Nigerian diaspora

The Nigerian diaspora is the population of people of Nigerian nationality or descent living outside Nigeria, estimated at 2 to 17 million and remitting over $20 billion a year.

Nigerian Dwarf goat

Nigerian Dwarf goat: American miniature dairy goat breed from West African Dwarf stock, 17-22.5 inch does, about 75 lb, milk with 6-10% butterfat, first registered 1981, distinct from the Pygmy goat.

Nigerian Enterprises Promotion Decree

A Nigerian law first promulgated in 1972 and replaced by a stricter version in 1977, forcing foreign-owned businesses to transfer ownership to Nigerian citizens under the country's indigenisation policy.

Oct 10, 2026

Nigerian Exchange Group

Nigerian Exchange Group Plc is a Nigerian capital market holding company created in 2021 by demutualisation of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, listed on its own exchange that October.

Nigerian federal government colleges

Nigerian federal government colleges, also called Federal Unity Colleges or Unity Schools, are federally owned secondary schools mixing students of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to promote national unity.

Nigerian Fourth Republic

The Fourth Nigerian Republic is Nigeria's civilian democratic government since 1999, when Olusegun Obasanjo was sworn in as president, the longest civilian rule in its history.

Nigerian Gas Company

The Nigerian Gas Company (NGC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Nigeria's NNPC, operating since 1988 and building the Escravos–Lagos Pipeline that carries gas for power and industry.

Nigerian naira

The naira is the currency of Nigeria, subdivided into 100 kobo and issued solely by the Central Bank of Nigeria since it replaced the Nigerian pound in 1973.

Nigerian National Democratic Party

Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), founded by Herbert Macaulay in Lagos in 1923, generally called Nigeria's first political party; won all three Lagos Legislative Council seats in 1923, dominated Lagos politics until the Nigerian Youth Movement defeated it in 1938, and existed until 1944.

Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited

The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, known as NNPC Limited, is Nigeria's fully state-owned national oil company, the commercial successor to the old NNPC corporation since 2022.

Nigerian Navy

The Nigerian Navy (NN) is the naval branch of Nigeria's armed forces, established June 1, 1956 as the Nigerian Naval Force and renamed in 1963; it patrols the Gulf of Guinea against piracy and oil theft, builds ships at the Lagos dockyard, and marked its 70th anniversary in 2026.

Nigerian oil boom

The Nigerian oil boom was the 1973–1980 period when oil price increases transformed Nigeria from a largely agricultural economy into one dependent on oil exports and state spending.

Nigerian People's Party

The Nigerian People's Party (NPP) was one of five parties in Nigeria's Second Republic, formed in 1978, led by Nnamdi Azikiwe, and dissolved after the 1983 military coup.

Nigerian Pidgin

Nigerian Pidgin, also called Naijá or Broken, is an English-lexifier contact language that grew from trade on the Niger Delta in the 1400s and now serves as Nigeria's unofficial lingua franca, with over 100 million speakers.

Nigerian power sector privatization

Nigerian power sector privatization was the 2010–2013 sale of the state-owned PHCN's generation and distribution companies to private investors, described as Sub-Saharan Africa's most ambitious energy privatization.

Nigerian Second Republic

The Nigerian Second Republic was the civilian democratic government of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983, an American-style presidential system under President Shehu Shagari that ended with a military coup bringing General Muhammadu Buhari to power.

Nigerian Television Authority

Nigerian Television Authority (NTA), Nigeria's federal government-owned national TV broadcaster founded in 1977 by Decree 24, merging regional stations; largest African TV network by coverage, headquartered in Abuja, about 100 stations, led by Director-General Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos.

Nigerian Third Republic

The Nigerian Third Republic was the planned civilian political order in Nigeria under General Babangida's transition program, which collapsed when the regime annulled the 1993 presidential election.