Pros And Cons Of Being Proud Of Nigeria

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If you ask someone where they’re from most likely they’re going to be proud of it and possibly even talk up their country like it’s no one’s business. Nigerians have a lot to be proud of being the second biggest super power country in Africa other than their sister country South Africa. Nigeria has the largest population in Africa, and their land is blessed with an abundant amount of natural resources. Natural recourses like petroleum tin ore, and many other minerals. Nigeria is also Africa’s largest oil exporter and the sixth largest oil producing nation in the world. The oil and petroleum generate seventy percent of their government’s revenue. Little known fact they’re also the world’s second largest producer of movies right behind the United

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