ABSTRACT
The most populous country in Africa, the Federal Republic of Nigeria shares borders with Cameroon to the east, Benin to the west, and Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger to the north. To the south is the Gulf of Guinea. Nigeria attained independence from Britain in 1960 and in 1994 had a population of some 100 million spread across the land's 923,800 square kilometres (356,700 square miles).
