What is Nigeria famous for?

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Zain

SCAM....

Shawn S

The Nigerian Nightmare, Christian Okoye

krimla2000

Oil

Phy A

Nigeria is famous for oil,movie industry,high population,rituals and scam.

Sanmigsean

Oil, palm wine, ogogoro. Shade, Seal, Fela Kuti.

I try not to be so negative, but also armed robbers, fraud & corruption.

minijumbofly

Well, first use the below link for some facts and pick items of interest.
It's one of the world top crude oil exporting country but it has to import most of it's petro and diesel as it cannot keep any refinery working most of the time.
It has grossly insufficient supply of electricity and the entire nation suffers from daily power interruptions lasting from hours to days at a time.
It's famous for corruptions at all levels and scams of all kinds, ( they call it 419 locally ).
It has the biggest population in Africa, at 130+ millions, it's just less than 2nd ranked Eygpt and 3rd ranked Ethopia combined. But there is no official birth records nor national ID. So you can really be anyone with any name and age as long as a few people vouch for you. ( Neat ! Huh? )
But it's not all hell as many believe from the CNN reports.
The average peasants are actually humble, forgiving and well natured.
There is no natural diseasters of any sort here. No snow, no hurricane, no tornado, no landslide, no floods, no volcano yada yada. They actually have to work on man made diseasters just to put in the checks and balances in the populations growth. ( OK, accident happens a lot here )
The local produce are mostly safe from genetic modifications, and they have some of the best tropical fruits in the world.
Last but not least. There is actually far more freedom in Nigeria than in the USA.

Steve

Unfortunately all you hear about when you hear of Nigeria is terrorism, oil and abuse of women through Sharia law. There is so much more to the county, I wish we would hear about that.

McFads

Unfortunately Nigeria has received quite a bit of bad press - they're known for spam (millions of emails sent out asking for bank information), they are known for the oil problems and the hostages, and they're known for the deep seeds of corruption. That being said, I spent 8 weeks in Lagos and would say that some of the stereotypes are earned, but overall, the working Nigerians should be known for their work ethics, ability to overcome and the direct sales (you can buy anything from your car).

BCPilotguy

Oil, Nigerian Scams (where you get an e-mail from someone pretending to be rich needing to get money out of the country), fast runners, economic strife, corruption.

kelechi

football (soccer), oil, and recently netizens,
the future? world power

ThanatoS

nigerian film industry, nollywood

chicnlips2012

so far lots of oil

eastglam

Scams and the Biafran civil war, oil, and violence.

Solid

Oil /Shell/ oil rebels (many foreigners working with shell have been kidnapped/abducted). Nollywood, their film industry and for their e-mail scams and high fraud cases (especially the 419ers)

ms.jackson...

GOLD... BUT TRY WIKAPEDIA AND CIA WORLDFACTBOOK!

Nikya

i think oil

Rabbityama

Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa (131,859,731 people) . One out of every six people living on the African continent is Nigerian!

It has been known for its corruption, but President Obasanjo has worked hard to put an end to that.

It's known for it's oil. Nigeria is a member of OPEC.

The author Chinua Achebe (wrote "Things Fall Apart" among others) is a famous Nigerian.

The singer Seal is also Nigerian.