Yenagoa is the traditional home of the Ijaw people. The Ijaw form the majority of the state. English is the official language, but Epie/Atissa language, one of the Ijo languages, is the major local language spoken in Yenagoa.
Since attaining the status of state capital in 1996, construction and other activities have accelerated appreciably. Yenagoa's population is estimated at about 266,008 people. It is the home of the Bayelsa United FC, a premier league football club.
Modern-day Nigeria has been the site of numerous kingdoms and tribal states over the millennia. The modern state originated from British colonial rule beginning in the 19th century, and the merging of the Southern Nigeria Protectorate and Northern Nigeria Protectorate in 1914. The British set up administrative and legal structures whilst practising indirect rule through traditional chiefdoms. Nigeria became a formally independent federation in 1960, and plunged into a civil war from 1967 to 1970. It has since alternated between democratically-elected civilian governments and military dictatorships, until it achieved a stable democracy in 1999, with its 2011 presidential elections being viewed as the first to be conducted reasonably freely and fairly.
Nigeria is an album by American jazz guitarist Grant Green featuring performances recorded in 1962 but not released on the Blue Note label until 1980. The tracks were also released in 1997 as part of The Complete Quartets with Sonny Clark.
Reception
The Allmusic review by Michael Erlewine awarded the album 4½ stars and stated "Just classic Green".
Yenagoa — Nigeria’s TransNigerPipeline, a major oil artery transporting crude from onshore oilfields to the Bonny export terminal, was shut after a blast that caused a fire, police said on Tuesday.
Nigeria... Olusegun Samuel in Yenagoa ... ended at the weekend, participants drawn from seven communities converged at the Ebitari hotel, Yenagoa, to dialogue on ways to foster peace in the communities.
Nigeria... Julius Osahon, Yenagoa ... which ended at the weekend, participants drawn from seven communities converged at the Ebitari hotel, Yenagoa, to dialogue on ways to foster peace in the communities.
No disease is deadlier on the continent, especially for children ... Dr ... Sign up ... FILE- Women wait to have the malaria vaccine R21/Matrix-M administered to their children at the comprehensive HealthCentre in Agudama-Epie, in Yenagoa, Nigeria, Monday, Dec.
