Steemit Engagement Challenge S2W2 | Steem4Nigeria Contest | No place like home: About my country Nigeria

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Today, I welcome you in a very special way here on my post. In this post, I have discussed about my country, the things that interest me so much in my country Nigeria and several other things which will also interest you. Let's get straight to the details of the discussion here below.

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Open a brief introduction that tells us about your Country.

Nigeria is the name of my country. I am a bonafide citizen of this great country called Nigeria by birth. Nigeria is a country that is situated in West Africa with a coast on the Gulf of Guinea and that of the Atlantic Ocean. Nigeria as a country, shares boundaries with other countries which are Cameroon, Benin, Niger Republic and Chad.

Nigeria geography is ranges from southern coastal swamps down to the tropical forest, grassland, woodlands, and desert land in the northern part of the country.

The system of government in Nigeria is a federal republic, and the chief of state and the head of government is the president: President Maj. Gen. (ret.) Muhammadu Buhari who was sworned into office in May 29, 2015; with Vice President Oluyemi "Yemi" Osinbajo.

Nigeria has a mixed relegions and also mixed economic system which includes different variety of private ownership, combines with the centralized economic planing and government rules and regulation. As an economic country, we are also member of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States.

Other Fact About Nigeria

Capital	Abuja
Currency	Nigerian Naira (NGN)
Languages	English (general), Hausa,Igbo (Ibo),Yoruba, Efik Fulani

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What are the great things that interest you about your country?

There are so many things that so much interest me about Nigeria which I would really love to discuss about with a none stop. However, here I have briefly details out 9 things that interest me about Nigeria according to there other of priority.

• Family:

This one of the thing that interest me about Nigeria. In Nigeria family details are varies from other ethic groups and it's in Nigeria where you will get to see how male are the ones that dominate more than female in a families.

• Food and Recipes:

This is another thing that interest me about Nigeria. In Nigeria, when its come to food and Recipes we are bless with so many food and every ethic groups have they own special food and unique way of eating their special food. Some ethic groups eat with hand (right hand only), whereas other use utensils in eating.

I came to discovered that it's only in Nigeria restaurants that you will get to eat your native food which is prepared by someone that isn't from your tribe.

• Diet:

Nigeria as I have earlier said, we are blessed with so many foods but it is only in Nigeria where you will see cassava, yams, rice and beans as the most eat diet because we aren't used to eating of spicy food, fond hot, etc because of our weather conditions and the nature of our works.

• Cultural Attributes:

As a Nigerians we are very proud of our cultural heritage of our various ethic groups. When it comes to culture every tribes in Nigeria has their own fashion style and dancing steps. Nigeria women wear Elaorate headdresses when it comes to important festivals.

• Recreation/tourism:

When it comes to recreation, Nigerians are good in soccer which is the most famous. Horse race, wrestling basketball dancing etc are also practice. As for tourism we are blessed with so many natural creature in every part of the state in Nigeria you will get to see more than one tourist centre.

• Dating:

Dating is what Nigerians believe is the first stage of getting marry. Well this is very important ooh. Let's keep that aside and only focus on marriage. It's only in Nigeria that marriage customs change with time, but the payment of bridal dowry or token is very common in all part of the country.

• Respect for Gift:

In Nigeria it is a very bad habits (manners) for anyone to receive anything that is given to him/her with the left hand. If you try it your name na sorry. Usually gifts are receive with both hands not just the right or left.

Other funny great things that interest me about Nigeria..

• Jokes/comedy:

Nigeria is a country of jokes where everything is use to crack jokes in a very funny and acting ways by comedians.

• Visiting:

Nigeria is one of the country where if you're to visit someone the person will tell you pom and play that when visiting bring bread is a appreciated, but not necessary.

Another funniest and interesting thing about Nigeria that I can remember as a child when I was growing up when you loss your tooth you will hold it in your fist with eight stones to make it nine which is for male, while if it's female she will hold six stones with her tooth to make seven. What we do then after holding the stones with our tooth was that we would close our eyes and shout out loud, and count the number in our fist and say a word like I want my tooth back!. So my fellow dear read from Nigeria and other countries do you also had such experienced?.

<center,>Which of the things mentioned above do you prefer your country for, over other countries?

Among all the things that I have mentioned above, I prefer Nigeria for the top 4 mentioned things which are;

• Family
• Food and Recipes
• Diet
• Recreation/tourism

No Place like home: If you eventually leave your country in search of greener pastures, would you be willing to come back because of your response in (3).

Yes, I would be willing to come back because it's usually said that "No place like home" which means that no matter where you find yourself you can never be 100% comfortable like you're in your home. So leaving your home in search of greener pastures to another man land you are nothing but a stranger anything can happen.

The main reason why a lot of people including me because am praying for the opportunity to leave Nigeria to another country in search for greener pastures is for me to make my family proud. So to this alone I would be willing to come back because of my family.

Secondly, Food and Recipes, is another thing that would make me to come back home. You can imagine you as a Nigerian eating Chinese foods for the first time and also as a Chinese you're eating Nigeria food for the first time you will never love it.

Am used to Nigeria foods most especially my village foods and most of the time that I do traveled home often or yearly is just for me to eat my village food. So with thing I would come back home.

Tourism is another reason why I would be willing to come back home. I came to found out that in Nigeria we are all blessed with so many natural resources, that can be a good tourists attractions for people all over the world to be visiting. With the vast tourist attractions that we have in Nigeria, after making money abroad I will come back and develop them so I can be getting cool cash. You know today, one of the fast growing business is hospitality business so I would surely come back and invest in such types of business.

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Conclusion:

Nigeria is regarded as the giant of Africa's and it's still a developing country that has experienced both military and civilian administrations. The population of Nigeria is estimated to around 170 million people and we are still growing in terms of Infrastructures. I sincerely thank @steem4nigeria for organizing this contest which I have participated.

I am inviting my friends @simonmwigwe, @preye2 and @yakspeace to also join me and participate in this contest.

Thank you for reading through my post my dear friend.....