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Nigeria

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The highest point in Nigeria is Chappal Waddi at 7,936 feet (2,419 m). The Jos Plateau in the center of the country rises 900 to 2,000 ft (275 to 610 m) above the surrounding plains. The weather on the plateau is cooler and wetter, so the area is densely populated and used for agriculture.|

There are small minorities of English, Americans, East Indians, Chinese, Japanese, Syrians, Lebanese, and refugees and immigrants from other West African or East African nations. These minorities mostly reside in major cities such as Lagos and Abuja, or in the Niger Delta as employees for the major oil companies. A number of settled in Nigeria as political following the . A number of them include Afro-Cubans and mixed-raced Cubans.|

Suicide bomber in Nigeria blows herself up at college near Kano, country's largest northern city, killing six people in the fourth such attack there in less than a week.|

President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria spoke on Wednesday at the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.|

Nigerian includes many kinds of folk and popular music, some of which are known worldwide. Styles of folk music are related to the multitudes of ethnic groups in the country, each with their own techniques, instruments, and songs. As a result, there are many different types of music that come from Nigeria. Many late-twentieth-century musicians, such as Fela Kuti, have famously fused cultural elements of various indigenous music with American Jazz and to form Afrobeat music. JuJu music, which is music fused with traditional music from the Yoruba nation and made famous by King Sunny Ade, is also from Nigeria. There is also fuji music, a Yoruba percussion style, created and popularized by the one and only Mr. Fuji, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister. Of recent, a budding hip hop movement has surfaced. World famous musicians that come from Nigeria are Fela Kuti, Alhaji Sikiru Ayinde Barrister, King Sunny Ade, Ebenezer Obey, Femi Kuti, Lagbaja, Sade Adu. Nigeria has been called "the heart of African music" because of its role in the development of West African highlife and palm-wine music, which fuses native rhythms with techniques imported from the , , , and elsewhere.|

Pres Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria meets for the first time with parents of several hundred schoolgirls who were kidnapped from the town of Chibok and dozens of classmates who escaped their militant captors; assures group of his determination to bring out the captives alive.|

Editorial welcomes news that Nigeria and Senegal have been found to be free of Ebola, and 43 people in Texas linked to Liberian victim Thomas Eric Duncan have been cleared without falling ill; contends danger of outbreak affecting American public is very, very slight, and experience in Nigeria and Senegal shows that diligent responses can work.|

World Health Organization declares Nigeria officially free of Ebola infections.|

Nigerian health officials announce two deaths from Ebola outbreak that is sweeping West Africa; Pres Goodluck Jonathan declares state of emergency, officially adding Nigeria to list of nations struggling to control one of largest public-health emergencies in recent history; more than 900 people have died.|

Taking advantage of its role of sub-saharan Africa's most populated country, Nigeria has repositioned its military as an African peacekeeping force. Since 1995, the Nigerian military has been deployed as peacekeepers in (1997), (1997-1999), 1997-1999, and presently in 's Darfur region under an African Union mandate.|

Nigeria has a strict policy of diversification in its military procurement from various countries. After the imposition of sanctions by many Western nations, Nigeria turned to China, , , and for the purchase of military equipment and training.|

A list of Web sites about Nigeria as selected by editors of The New York Times.|

Witnesses to a bombing that killed at least 14 people and wounded 26 at a World Cup viewing site in northeast Nigeria say suicide bomber drove a three-wheeled taxi, while police official says explosion came from parked car; no group has claimed responsibility for attack.|

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