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

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Open a brief introduction that tells us about your Country.

Am proud to say that am from Nigeria. Nigeria is country has numerous landmarks and wildlife reserves, a country on the Gulf of Guinea. Located in West Africa. Nigeria is a country with it black nation that is well known on the earth that is there is no where you go you will not see a Nigerian there and also a home for technological hub, creative hub and fashion hub.

In Nigeria there 6 geopolitical zones which make the 36 and those zones are: North East, North West, North Central, South East, South West, South South.
The North Central zone consist of Benue State, Kogi State, Kwara State, Nasarawa State, Niger State, Plateau State and FCT( Federal Capital Territory).

The North East zone consist of Adamawa State, Bauchi State, Borno State, Gombe State, Taraba State and Yobe State.

The North West zone consist of Jigawa State, Kaduna State, Kano State, Katsina State,Kebbi State,Sokoto State and Zamfara States..

The South East zone consist of Abia State, Anambra State, Ebonyi State, Enugu State, and Imo State.

The South South zone consist of Akwa Ibom State, Bayelsa State, Cross River State, Delta State,Edo State, and Rivers State and they are known as the Niger Delta Region.

The South West zone consist of Ekiti State, Lagos State, Ogun State, Ondo State, Osun State, and Oyo State.

There are several languages in Nigeria with over 520 languages but the major languages are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. The major religion are Christainity and Muslim. Nigeria is blessed with natural resources like crude oil, natural gas, tin and columbite. Nigeria practise the federal system of government where the President exercised the executive power and He is in charge as the head of government and head of the ruling party. Its currency is NGN meaning Nigeria Naira.

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

There are several things that interest me about my country Nigeria. I will be discussing those things that interest me about my country.

a) Courtship/Dating and Marriage
In Nigeria we believe that from friendship it enters dating where those involved get to know each other thereby leading to courtship and in courtship we believe that you are expected to know your partner well. In Nigeria the payment of bride is common among the different tribes.

b) Respect for Elders
In Nigeria it is a taboo to see a young one not greeting an elder. It is seen as an abomination. It is our custom to stop and greet an elder no matter where you are and also when am elder is giving you anything be it gift or anything you attach your left hand to your right hand to collect the gift as s sign of respect and regard.

c) Family
It's interest to know that families matters a lot in Nigeria. In a family the male has upper hand than the female because we believe that when the female marries she will go to her husband's house and leave his family so it now makes the males to exercise more power than the females.

d) Parental care
The love that Nigerians have towards their make s it so interesting that mother's stays at home to enjoy that the observe their children growth properly. Another interesting it is that whenever their children does anything wrongly they will correct them immediately either by flooging, talking or shouting as the case may be. Nigeria parents don't spoil their children they train them.

e) Food
Another interesting about Nigeria is that we love the food we cook because of how we are blessed with numerous foods different tribes have their food they eat and how is being prepared and what it gives to the body. Some tribes eat the much availability of palm oil and pepper were as that other can eat the oil is little and whether pepper is small.

f) culture
Culture they say is the people's way of life which include their dressing ,dancing,their songs and the houses they built. The interesting thing is that each tribe has its own dressing,dancing steps and the things they do when they are dancing as well as the songs they day including the beating and the rhythm of the song.

g) Comedies
In Nigeria we can call it cruise. Almost every thing in Nigeria is used to catch comedy including the politicians, atimes you will see short videos of the comedies and what they say in the video will make you laugh.

Which of the things mentioned above do you prefer your country for, over other countries?
From the things I mentioned above I prefer the following:
a) Family
b) Respect for elders
c) food
d) culture

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).
There is saying that says no place ,a home is where you express your self properly, a home is where your voice will be heard properly, you can't express your self properly in another man's land. To answer the above question I said Yes I will ready to come back home after leaving my home in search if greener pastures.

Another reason why am leaving my country in search of greener pasture is to find an ends means (money). You know that when there is money everyone around you will always be happy and it will make life bit easier for you, so leaving my country in search of greener pastures is to end poverty in my family and make them proud.

One of the things I don't joke with is my stomach which is food. Eating another food will not make me happy ,food that am not used to. Imaging eating a food that is home based you not feel satisfied and it will look like you are eating poison. I would live coming back to eat home based food ,food prepared locally.

Conclusion
Nigeria my country, I love my country we are blessed with mineral resources and because of the challenges we encounter everyday makes us strong. A friend of mine once said if you can survive in Nigeria there is no country in the world that you can not survive, Nigeria is a country that will teach you the full meaning of hard work pays. Thanks to @steem4nigeria for this wonderful topic.

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