The Nigerian pygmy hippopotamus subspecies was never studied in the wild and never captured.

The Nigerian pygmy hippos were seen or shot in Rivers State, Imo State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

A number of animals are present including African pygmy goats, black-breasted leaf turtles, giant African millipedes, gopher snakes, green-crested basilisks, guinea pigs, sheep, Nigerian dwarf goats, Northern Pygmy Owls, ocellated rays, Parma wallabies, poison dart frogs, rabbits, rats, and tiger rat snakes.

* G. c. peralta, commonly known as the West African, Niger or Nigerian giraffe, is endemic to south-western Niger.

* Member of the Order of the Niger, a Nigerian national honour

The Niger section runs 837 km ( of which 600 km was in poor condition as of 2000 ), via Niamey, Dosso, Dogondoutchi, Birnin-Konni and Maradi to the Nigerian border at Jibiya.

On 6 March 2006 a scheme to extend the Nigerian rail system to neighbouring Niger, conceived 10 years ago, was revived and is currently receiving consideration by the transport ministries of both governments.

In September 2009, the Nigerian government commenced a 36 billion naira dredging of the Niger River from Baro to Warri, a move which will see silt removed from several hundred miles.

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.

* The Nigerian civil war ( also known as the Biafran war ) during the 1960s among Igbos, Hausa-Fulani and Yoruba ; today's ethnic and oil-related conflict in the Niger Delta of Nigeria.

At home, Obasanjo's first term was marked by widespread criticism over the Nigerian government's response to violent crises in the North — Kaduna and Kano chief among them — as well as in the central-eastern state of Benue and the southern oil-rich Niger Delta.

It has been said without confirmation that both Gowon and Ojukwu had knowledge of the huge oil reserves in the Niger Delta area, which today has grown to be the mainstay of the Nigerian economy.

But the Biafrans responded with an offensive of their own when, on 9 August, the Biafran forces moved west into the Mid-Western Nigerian region across the Niger river, passing through Benin City, until they were stopped at Ore ( in present day Ondo State ) just over the state boundary on 21 August, just 130 miles east of the Nigerian capital of Lagos.

The first attempt by the 2nd Infantry Division on 12 October to cross the Niger from the town of Asaba to the Biafran city of Onitsha cost the Nigerian Federal Army over 5, 000 soldiers killed, wounded, captured or missing.

Other areas of Africa from which he has reported include Mali, Zambia, Sierra Leone, and the Niger Delta, to report on the Nigerian villagers ' unrest over the work of the oil companies.

* Boro Isaac Adaka-a celebrated Niger Delta nationalist and Nigerian civil war hero.

It also sits astride one of several main routes between the Hausa populated territories of southern Niger and northern Nigeria, with the Nigerian transport and trade center of Illela, Sokoto State just 18 km to the south.

Its backbone was Nigerian armed forces and financial resources, with sub-battalion strength units contributed by other ECOWAS members — Ghana, Guinea, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and others.

* Amadou Cissé ( born 1948 ), Nigerian politician, Prime Minister of Niger ( 1995 ; 1996-1997 )

Berti Vogts, manager of the Nigerian national team, dropped Mikel from the team's squad for the African Nations ' Cup qualifier against Niger, for failing to attend their previous match against Uganda.

Africare was founded in 1970 by former Peace Corps members who had worked in eastern Niger, as well as a Nigerian diplomat.

The region has, however, seen a number of bloody civil wars, including the Nigerian Civil War ( 1967 – 1970 ), two civil wars in Liberia in 1989 and 1999, a decade of fighting in Sierra Leone from 1991 – 2002, a Tuareg Rebellion in Niger and Mali in the early 1990s, and an ongoing conflict in Côte d ' Ivoire that began in 2002.

Bonny Light oil is a high grade of Nigerian crude oil with high API gravity ( low specific gravity ), produced in the Niger Delta basin and named after the prolific region around the city of Bonny.

The lake is from the Nigerian border to the north, and lies on the northern slopes of the Massif du Mbam, drained by streams running north, then northwest, to the Katsina-Ala River in Nigeria which is part of the Benue River basin.

Chevron, a major US oil company, has its main Nigerian oil production facility located at the mouth of the Escravos River.

Other grades of Nigerian crude oil are Qua Iboe crude oil, Brass River crude oil, and Forcados crude oil.

The city is located in central Nigeria along the Benue River and holds the base for the Nigerian Air Force's MiG 21 and SEPECAT Jaguar aircraft squadrons.

Although these western empires had little political influence on the Nigerian savanna before 1500hu they had a strong cultural and economic impact that became more pronounced in the 16th century, especially because these states became associated with the spread of Islam and trade.

The British, Soviet, and U. S. support ( especially militarily ) of the Nigerian government played a major role in the outcome of the war.

Despite his stated commitment to returning the country to democracy, Abacha's government was accused of human rights abuses, especially after the hanging of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by the Oputa Commission ( only one of several executions of Ogoni activists opposed to the exploitation of Nigerian resources by the multinational petroleum company, Royal Dutch Shell Group ); Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo were jailed for treason, and Wole Soyinka charged in absentia with treason.

In Brazil's northeastern state of Bahia, especially in the city of Salvador, black-eyed peas are used in a traditional street food of Nigerian origin called acarajé.

The UK and the Soviet Union supported ( especially militarily ) the Nigerian government while Canada and France helped the Biafrans.

Nigerian Dwarfs, especially does and wethers, do well with children.

The economic collapse of the 1980s also greatly hurt the scholarly community, especially the sharp devaluation of the Nigerian currency.

Dialects of Nigerian Pidgin may include the Warri, Sapele, Benin, Port-Harcourt, Lagos especially in Ajegunle, Onitsha varieties.

Niyabinghi rhythms were largely a creation of Count Ossie, who incorporated influences from traditional Jamaican Kumina drumming ( especially the form of the drums themselves ) with songs and rhythms learned from the recordings of Nigerian musician Babatunde Olatunji.

In Nigerian cuisine, especially amongst the Yorubas, it is commonly used in a stew known as ewedu, a condiment to other starch-based foods such as amala.

Oku is also relatively near to the Nigerian border, and travel across the border is common, as many people in the region have relatives in Nigeria.

Many of the tribes retain animist, or " pagan ", beliefs, particularly in the mountains near the Nigerian border.

Tin is mined near Mayo Darlé and the Nigerian border and southwest of Banyo, and bauxite is mined near Ngaoundal and Minim-Martap.

On 29 October 2006 a passenger plane, crashed near the Nigerian capital, Abuja.

Sowande was born in Abeokuta, near Lagos, the son of Emmanuel Sowande, a priest and pioneer of Nigerian church music.

Prior to the massacre, twelve members of the Nigerian police were murdered by a gang near Odi, seven on November 4 and the remainder in the following days.