106. The Food: Our wide variety of delicious meals will always get your attention.
107. Our Food and Language. We share the food with our friends who aren’t Nigerians and they love it. Nigel from UK loves Amala with Ewedu. He eats it with pleasure. Foreigners like Basket mouth and are well amused by his Jokes.
108. Have you tasted Nigerian Cuisine? It’s both as diverse and enjoyable as the people in Nigeria are.
109. Moi Moi: steamed parcels of deliciousness. So good they had to name it twice!
110. Nigeria has got a wide range of food options and loads of potential with agricultural products. Basically, we have a whole lot of food.
111. We’ve got religion and we make it work.
112. We love God – we love God to the extent of being ready to die for Him.
113. A Nigerian knows enough to understand there’s a Supernatural force behind probably every occurrence.
114. Nigeria is a religious country. People from other parts of the world come to Nigeria for spiritual healing from different ailments and diseases.
115. Nigerians are prayerful. We spend a lot of time in churches and mosques praying for God for help through tough and challenging situations.
116. Talking about God openly across religions: In most Nigerian schools, it’s the norm to have a day to pray in the Muslim way and a day to pray in the Christian way, without worrying about offending people.
Nigeria – The Music, The Movies, The Dance, The Art
117. Entertainment is the heart of the Nigerian culture. We boast the funniest and most hilarious entertainers in Africa. Tired from a long working week, a Nigerian entertainment/comedy show will crack you up, relaxing every nerve.
118. Nigerians are setting the pace and taking the lead in the entertainment industry – Music & Movies. Numerous music awards (MTV, Channel O, BET) and the wide acclaim for Nollywood movies bear witness.
119. Nigeria has produced many world class musicians. A notable mention in this regard is Fela Anikulapo Kuti. A Broadway show titled ‘FELA!’ was produced in 2009 depicting the life and times of the Afrobeat musician.
120. Nigeria’s movie industry, Nollywood, is reputedly the 3rd largest film industry after Hollywood and Bollywood, and has grown gradually into a $250 million industry in more than 10 years.
121.We are the entertainment capital of Africa! We keep winning awards-Channel O, MTV Base, MOBOs and Kora.
122. Nigeria boasts a growing entertainment industry: movie and music.
123. Nigerian music rocks!!!
124. Nigerian music boasts some of the best musical talent and genres in the world.
125. The Music: Our uniqueness in all things reflects in our music – from the rhythm to the instruments and consequently, the dancing.
126. Our Movies: With limited resources, our movie industry keeps growing and growing. If you want to get to know us, see some of our movies without bias, considering the limitations.
127. Our Film industry – lines behind Hollywood and Bollywood, despite starting decades after these two.
128. Nigeria is the source of music that is heard and loved around the world. Take Afrobeat (made very popular by the legendary Fela Anikpulapo Kuti) for example.
129. Nigerian indigenous musical instruments are unique, soulful and rhythmic. They comprise the popular Talking Drum, producing proverbial and storytelling sounds, the Shaker (shekere), the Udu drum, the Lute, the leg and arm Rattle, the Omele, the Ogene (Gong originating in Eastern Nigeria), the Ekwe drum and the Kakaki (A 4m metal trumpet popular in Northern Nigeria). Many of these instruments have been incorporated in South American music over the years.
130. We have some of the best music coming out of Africa and going into the world. The Nigerian beat is intensely unique and is the envy of many.
131. Nigeria is perhaps one of the few countries where a native dance shares a name with a vegetable – Etighi (Okro)
132. Nigeria’s entertainment & fashion industries without a doubt manifest the market potentials & lucrative investment opportunities in Nigeria.
133. Nigerian music: Highlife, Afro-juju, Afro-jazz, Nigerian neo-soul and Hip Hop. Nigerian music rarely misses a beat.
Nigeria – Geography and Natural Resources
134. Nigeria is a nation blessed with rich human and natural resources. As the 8th largest exporter of Oil in the world, with the 10th largest proven reserves, our blessings cannot be overemphasised. No earthquakes, no tsunamis, no droughts, an evergreen land. The rest of the world should live here.
135. The beauty of the Nigerian state cannot but leave one in awe. From the rolling hills to the vast plains in the North Central Nigeria and the forests in the South, the beautiful scenery of the country is more than breathtaking and with the wildlife spread all over the country; Nigeria is surely a beauty to behold and a tourist’s delight all year round.
136. Nigeria is a country with natural resources and her geographical location makes the natural resources less prone to natural disasters. These natural resources, if managed properly can result in economic buoyancy.
137. Nigeria is blessed with vast amounts of natural and human resources.
138. Nigeria has 34 solid minerals available in commercial quantities.
139. Got to love the Nigerian weather, it’s never winter.
140. Nigeria has been blessed with a bountiful amount of resources. We have the ability to become the breadbasket of the world.
6 comments
Nigeria is a great nation,we must unite.
I believe very much in Nigeria. There is currently a spiritual engineering of events that are gradually but consistently moving the country to its rightful place.
The Greener the Plant the Better NIGERIA is
We can still do it better than this………….
Nigeria is actually a land of opportunity, a seed on a sink and d next day it’s germinating where else does that happen
i think this is agood news for all nigerian, from this passage writer did not mention a business of which massi can estherblish upon (specification) what i mean is that the riches we go higher why poor we go down