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There was a huge explosion at a bus station in Abuja on Monday, more than 70 killed.

> Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991 By comparison, since 2020 the Lagos population grew by more than the entire population of Abuja.

There are lots of planned cities that are natural experiments in this: Brasilia, Canberra, Ottawa, Abuja etc.

I think it was because Lagos became overcrowded and Abuja looks a little cleaner.

Whereas previous epic fails on relocating capitals (/planned cities): - Nigeria's Abuja (1991) [0] is 330 mi/530 km northeast of Lagos, 1h20 by plane or 12hr by car.

The other examples I would reach for are Côte d'Ivoire moving its capital from Abidjan to Yamoussoukro in 1983, or Nigeria moving from Lagos to Abuja in 1991.

One of the thing she saw all around was her family, and her Igbo friends families, who were fairly successful and many of whom worked well paid jobs in Abuja (the capital) or Lagos, who would opt to rent in Abuja and Lagos while funnelling all their money into building houses in their birth villages that they rarely used.

One is the cultural division that the linked article only hints at: most power and wealth is held by Muslims from the north of the country (where the capital Abuja is) while the population in the Niger Delta (the oil-rich part) is predominantly Christian.

For example, it might not make sense to have (hypothetical here) a PoP in Ouagadougou if the Internet connectivity to Accra is fantastic, but despite the relative proximity it might turn out that a PoP in Abuja is better than trying to serve Nigeria from Ghana.

A TV series set around the journey of policemen in Nigeria or like "Northern Exposure in Abuja" could be incredible.

When Boko Haram does something bad it's "Nigeria", but when Abuja does something good it's "Africa".

I had three concurrently valid passports at one time, partially because getting multiple entry visas sometimes requires having [a] passport couriered to the country in question and I didn't want to be unable to travel while my passport was in Abuja.

Overview of Nigeria It has a land area of 923768 square kilometers, a population of 227 million (2024), an official language of English, a capital of Abuja, and a total GDP of 374.9 billion US dollars in 2023, with a per capita GDP of 1690 US dollars.

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