Federal Republic of Nigeria is a country
in West
Africa and the most populous country in Africa.
Nigeria shares land borders
with the Republic of Benin
in the west, Chad
and Cameroon
in the east, Niger
in the north, and borders the Gulf
of Guinea in the south. Since 1991,
its capital
has been the centrally-located city of Abuja;
previously, the Nigerian
government was headquartered in the coastal city Lagos.
The people of Nigeria have an extensive history, and
archaeological evidence shows that human habitation of the area
dates back to at least 9000 BC. The Benue-Cross
River area is thought to be the original homeland of the Bantu
migrants who spread across most of central and southern
Africa in waves between the 1st
millennium BC and the 2nd
millennium AD.
