Minna (Nigeria)
| Minna | |||
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| Coordinates | 9 ° 37 ' N , 6 ° 33' E | ||
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| Country | Nigeria | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | NG-NI | ||
| Residents | 335,905 (2012) | ||
Minna is the capital of the Niger State in Nigeria .
The city has a population of 335,905 (2012 calculation).
Minna is the economic center of the region and the seat of the Federal University of Technology . The city has road connections with many neighboring cities and is the station of a railway line from Kano in the north to Ibadan and Lagos in the south. Minna has an airport, Minna Airport . Abuja , the capital of Nigeria, is 150 km away.
Because Minna is located on a historic route of the Trans-Saharan trade , Islam is rooted in the city. It is home to many mosques and Muslim organizations.
sons and daughters of the town
- Cyprian Ekwensi (1921-2007), writer
- Ibrahim Babangida (* 1941), officer, politician and from 1985 to 1993 President of Nigeria
- Abdulsalami Abubakar (* 1942), politician and from 1998 to 1999 President of Nigeria
- Ben Okri (born 1959), writer
- Yakubu Alfa (* 1990), football player
Individual evidence
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: on the population of Nigerian cities