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Cross River, enchanting beauty, the lure of tourists
Cross River state, located on Nigeria’s southeastern coastline and sharing borders with eastern neighbour, Cameroon, is both a reservoir of…
Sokoto, the Caliphate Capital
Sokoto is a city in northwestern Nigeria located at the confluence of the Sokoto and Rima rivers. While the area…
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Imo, the heartland of the southeast
Imo, nicknamed “The Eastern Heartland” of Nigeria, emerged with Nigeria’s second batch of states created by the military in 1976,…
Yola, city of the Adamawa highlands
Yola, the capital of the present-day Adamawa state, was founded around 1841 Modibbo Adama Ibn Hussein, a Fulani cleric and…
Benin City, the favourite place of royals
For centuries Benin City was the center from which the ancient kingdom of the Edo people reigned over a large…
Maiduguri, a new capital for an old kingdom
The present-day city of Maiduguri in northeastern Nigeria falls inside territory that was part of the ancient Kanem Bornu empire…
Kano, a city with an ancient past
Early history …
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