Abstract:
Nigeria is strategically located in the West African continent with a
population of over one hundred and forty million (140,000,000) (Ploch,
2
012). The country is endowed with
almost all the
vegetational
zones found
in the tropic
starting from the Sahel region in the extreme north through
Savannah land in the forest region to the swamp mangrove down to the
Atlantic oceans. (Cha, 2010:48). The country is bordered in the north with
Niger, Camero
un in the east, Benin in the West and South to the Atlantic.
The Benue and Niger rivers which joint at Lokoja divided the country into
three segment that approximated Nigerians political division up
to 1963 i.e.
northern, western and eastern regions. Thou
gh home to hundreds of other
ethnic groups (each having its’ own political system, region, language and
cultures). These regions were respectively dominated by Hausa/Fulani,
Yoruba and Igbo groups. To be sure Nigeria is the most populous black
country in t
he African continent (Chukwemeka, 2009:405). The country has
abundant human and natural resources such as petroleum, cotton, cocoa,
iron ore etc (USAID, 2007:1)
