Abuja

Geography

Abuja is located at the center of the country, not far from the confluence of the rivers Bénoué and Niger, in an area of Savane to the moderate climate.

History

Not to support one of the three principal ethnos groups the decision is made in 1976 to transfer the Capitale since Lagos, dominated by the Yoruba S, in a neutral area. By tracing lines " X" on the chart of Nigeria, the former Head of State, Murtala Mohammed, falls on a zone little populated and favourable with the development. However the building work begins only in 1981. The Parliament is transferred in 1987 but the city became officially capital only in 1991. The name is borrowed of a village, near to the town of Suleija (village since compared to Suleija) located at about fifty kilometers of the current city.

Demography

Prices of the real estate maintained artificially high, and the attraction of the old capital Lagos, much richer on the cultural level in particular, did not make it possible the town of develop as the government hoped for it.

1983 : official occupation of the city
1991: 107.169 inhabitants
2005: 174.152 inhabitants

Archbishop's palace

Archdiocese of Abuja
Cathedral of Abuja
List of the bishops and archbishops of Abuja

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