After 90 long years, another glass ceiling has finally been broken at the Motion Picture Academy. âMudboundâ cinematographer Rachel Morrison made history Tuesday by becoming the first female director of photography to receive an Oscar nomination.
LGA to the north-west, Omala and Ankpa LGAs to the East and Ofu Local Government to the. South (ALGON, 2010). Dekina Local Government is the largest Local Government in Nigeria in. terms of the Land area, with a total of 7,691km2. Dekina Local Government have a population of. 260,312 people which represents 9.61 % of the total population of Kogi State` (NPC, 2006).
Nigeria is located in Western Africa, and borders the Gulf of Guinea, between Benin on the west and Cameroon on the east. It has a compact area of 923,768 square kilometers (356,376 square miles). The country's land mass extends from the Gulf of Guinea in the south to the Sahel (the shore of the Sahara Desert) in the north. Comparatively, Nigeria is slightly more than twice the size of California, or the size of California, Nevada, and Arizona combined. Abuja, the capital city of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, replaced the former capital city, Lagos, in December 1991, because of its more central location, among other reasons.