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Encyclopedia > Maiduguri

Maiduguri is the capital of Borno State in Nigeria. It is home to two markets, a museum and an airport. Maiduguri has one of the best equipped University and hospital in Nigeria. The city lies at the end of a railway line to Port Harcourt. Borno State is a state in north-eastern Nigeria. ... A market is a mechanism which allows people to trade, normally governed by the theory of supply and demand, so allocating resources through a price mechanism and bid and ask matching so that those willing to pay a price for something meet those willing to sell for it. ... A museum is typically a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... Railroad or railway tracks are used on railways, which, together with railroad switches (points), guide trains without the need for steering. ... Port Harcourt is a city located in the Niger Delta in Nigeria, with an area of 924,000 km². It is the administrative center of the Rivers state. ...


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Vanguard - Headlines : PROTESTS: From Maiduguri to Onitsha, victims wail (3315 words)
But by the time the protests in Maiduguri were over, no less than 30 lives were said to have been lost, including that of a Catholic priest, Rev. Fr.
Reverend Father Williams Livinus is the father in-charge of St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, one of the churches burnt down during the recent religious riot in Maiduguri, Borno state.
Sheik Mohammed Abba Aji, a muslim leader spoke on the genesis of the crisis in Maiduguri.
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