The Nigerian Merchant Navy is not a legally recognized body, but the senior officers are represented by the Merchant Navy Officers ' and Water Transport Senior Staff Association.

** Nigerian army officers from the north of the country rebel and execute head of state General Aguiyi-Ironsi.

At that time, the Nigerian Military Forces had 250 officers and only 15 were Nigerians.

The young officers then decided to name Lieutenant Colonel Gowon, who apparently had not been actively involved in events until that point, as Nigerian Head of State.

Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, the military governor of the Eastern region who did not allow attempts by Northern soldiers stationed in his region to replicate the massacres of Igbo officers, argued that if Igbo lives could not be preserved by the Nigerian state, then the Igbo reserved the right to establish a state of their own in which their rights would indeed be respected.

Cunningham's forces on the southern front included the South African 1st Division, the 11th African Division, and the 12th African Division ( the latter divisions were composed of East African, South African, Nigerian, and Ghanaian troops under British or South African officers ).

On 11 June 2007, one of its officers, PC Jon Henry, was fatally stabbed whilst on duty in the town sentre of Luton by a Nigerian immigrant, Tennyson Obih.

The first Force Commander was Ghanaian Lieutenant General Arnold Quainoo, but he was succeeded by an unbroken line of Nigerian officers.

The next morning, they drive to the bank to stop the transfer, evading Wesley's team, groups of Chechen and Nigerian investors to whom Ershon owes money, and police officers who are told Allen and Terry have gone rogue.

On 17 October 1996, four Cobra officers were on board an Aeroflot Tupolev Tu-154 escorting deported prisoners to Lagos when a Nigerian man threatened the cockpit crew with a knife and demanded a diversion to Germany or South Africa.

Nigerian contract laborers on Bioko, estimated to have been 60, 000, left en masse in early 1976.

Use of cell-phones have soared, and have mostly replaced the unreliable services of the Nigerian Telecommunications Limited ( NITEL ).

The Nigerian Ports Authority ( NPA ) is responsible for managing Nigeria ’ s ports, some of which have fallen behind international standards in terms of the quality of facilities and operational efficiency.

Although officially denied by the Nigerian government, Nigeria is known to have also provided secret military training at the Kaduna first mechanized army division and provided other material support to Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War ( Renamed Zimbabwe in 1979 ) of independence against white minority rule of Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith which was armed and financed by the regime in South Africa.

Ghana Nigerian relations have been both bitter and sweet.

The two states have maintained a close relationship, a relationship which is described by the Nigerian Defence Minister as " friendly " and like a " family tie "

* Currently the Barbadian Government does not have foreign accreditation for Nigeria, however the Nigerian Government has said that it was highly desirous of Barbados establishing an embassy directly to Nigeria.

Greek-owned tankers have an important role in shipping Nigerian oil and natural gas, its main exports.

Speaking in Lokoja, Nigerian President Umaru Yar ' Adua stated that the project would lead to " all-year-round navigability " on the River Niger and that he hoped that, by 2020, Nigeria would have become one of the twenty most industrialised nations in the world.

This led to the Nigerian Civil War which would have been avoided if the Nigerian leaders had not violated the Aburi Accord 1967 made between the Biafrans and the Nigerians which guaranteed self-governance to the then four geopolitical regions.

The meaning of the word " Biafra " has been explained in the Book, " Biafra or Nigerian Presidency: What the Ibos Want " where the author delved into the etimology and etiology of the words " Biafra ", " Ibo " and " Igbo " and proved that " Biafra " is an ancient word in the Igbo language which was lost many centuries ago just like other Igbo words have been lost.

Yet other variants have involved mention of a Nigerian Prince or other member of a royal family seeking to transfer large sums of money out of the country.

One reason why Nigeria may have been singled out is because of the comical, almost ludicrous nature of the promise of West African riches from a Nigerian Prince.

" or " For you to be a party to the transaction, you must have holdings at a Nigerian bank of $ 100, 000 or more " or similar.

Lagos, Nigeria has grown from 300, 000 in 1950 to an estimated 12. 5 million today, and the Nigerian government estimates that the city will have expanded to 25 million residents by 2015.

A small number of non-whites from outside the United States have also played in the NFL through the years, with notable examples from the past including running backs Rueben Mayes and Tim Biakabutuka ( both Black Canadians ) and Christian Okoye ( Nigerian ) and current examples including defensive linemen Israel Idonije ( also a Black Canadian ), Amobi Okoye ( also Nigerian ), and Osi Umenyiora ( Black British ) as well as fullback Jehuu Caulcrick ( Liberian ).

Sporadic cases of koro among people with non-Southeast-Asian ethnicity have been reported across the globe, for example, Nepali, Sudanese, Jordanian, Tanzanian, Nigerian, French, British, American and Canadian.

Several Nigerian state governments have filed similar petitions.

and its staff have received several journalism awards, including the Gracie Award from American Women in Radio & Television ; the George Polk Award for its 1998 radio documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, on the Chevron Corporation and the deaths of two Nigerian villagers protesting an oil spill ; and Goodman with Allan Nairn won Robert F. Kennedy Memorial's First Prize in International Radio for their 1993 report, Massacre: The Story of East Timor which involved first-hand coverage of genocide during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

According to post-Abacha governmental sources, some $ 3 or $ 4 billion USD in foreign assets have been traced to Abacha, his family and their representatives, $ 2. 1 billion of which the Nigerian government tentatively came to an agreement with the Abacha family to return, with the quid pro quo being that the Abachas would be allowed to keep the rest of the money.

From July to September 1967, he served as a correspondent covering the Nigerian Civil War between the region of Biafra and Nigeria.

Ojukwu served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966, the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and a Nigerian politician from 1983 to 2011, when he died, aged 78.

Subsequently, he served as a clerk at the famous Wesley college, as well as a correspondent for the Nigerian Times.

During the First World War Cary served with a Nigerian regiment fighting in the German colony of Cameroon.

In 1935 he joined the Nigerian Railway and served in the Chief Accountant's Office for nine years.

He served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigerian embassies in Washington, D. C., Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Accra, Ghana.

Aba is served by a station and a halt ( mini station ) on Nigerian Railways.

During his career as a Foreign Service Officer, Tarnoff served as Executive Secretary of the Department of State and Special Assistant to Secretaries of State Edmund Muskie and Cyrus Vance ( 1977 – 1981 ); Director, Office of Research and Analysis for Western Europe ( 1975 – 76 ); Special Assistant to Ambassador-at-Large Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ( 1967 ); and Nigerian Analyst in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research ( 1966 – 67 ).

While western fare such as hamburgers is served, Nigerian delicacies such as jollof rice and moin moin are more popular.

During the Western Region crisis in the early 1960s, he left the Action Group for Chief Samuel Ladoke Akintola's newly formed Nigerian National Democratic Party and served in the cabinet led by the then Prime Minister, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa.

The dissidents were thought to be mostly Mandinka and Krahn fighters of the former ULIMO-J and ULIMO-K. Also important in forming LURD was an alliance, brokered by ECOMOG-SL Nigerian chief General Maxwell Khobe, between Liberian dissidents and the Sierra Leonean Kamajors hunter militia, including chiefs Sam Hinga-Norman and Eddie Massally.