National Repository of Nigeria
The Apex Repository of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with objectives to:
- Preserve in electronic format the intellectual and cultural resources of Nigeria for posterity.
- Increase the visibility of the Nigerian knowledge storehouse and its scholarly, literary and cultural heritage; and
- Increase the availability and accessibility of Nigerian content to the global community.
Our Categories
Select a Category to browse its collections.
- Speeches/Essays of past and present Presidents, Political office holders of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and other well meaning Nigerians
- These are a collection of sound recordings, such as lectures, interviews, podcasts, music, and oral histories. These audio materials cover a wide range of topics and are available for listening, learning, and research purposes."
- Collection containing extensive selection of framed autographs, manuscripts, historical books and materials from pre-colonial times
- A collection of the constitutions, Laws and Acts of the Federal Government of Nigeria, all Political parties and parastatals
- Historical information of Nigerians based on personal narration
- A collection of all official government gazettes and circulars by the Federal Government of Nigeria and its federating states.
- These are a collection of materials that support the preservation, promotion, and revitalization of indigenous languages. These resources include language learning materials, dictionaries, stories and cultural documents that reflect the linguistic and cultural diversity of indigenous communities."
- A collection of writings on different subjects published in journals and other periodicals
- A collection of Maps of different locations in Nigeria
Recent Submissions
Winning in peace: an address by Col. S. O. Ogbemudia to the traditional rulers in Mid-Western state.
(Benin City, Edo state: Military Governor’s Office, 1970-02-07) MILITARY Governor’s Office, Mid-Western state
This is an address delivered by His Excellency, the Military Governor of Midwest State, Col. S. 0 Ogbemudia to traditional rulers and people of the Midwest state at Benin City on Saturday. February 7, 1970, on the occasion of the launching of the Midwest Rehabilitation Fund.
West Africa Magazine No. 2726 Saturday August 30 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited., 1969-08-30) West Africa magazine
■ Back to Addis Ababa: This week Foreign Ministers of the 42 member countries of the Organi sation of African Unity have started meeting in Addis Ababa for the 13th ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers since the birth of the organisa tion six years ago.
■ A month in the country-3: Good Guys and Bad Guys?Dennis Austin, author of “ Politics in Ghana 1946-60” and now a Professor of Government at Manchester University, continues his account of Ghana politics, based on his recent visit after a ten years’ absence.
■ Books and publications: The forsythsaga: The Biafra story by Frederick Forsyth
■ Roundabout: Africans in France: Trouble occurred recently in one of the hostels for African workers in France- who are much fewer in number than Algerians and other North Africans, or Spaniards and Portuguese,
■ Commercial news: Ghana cocoa: serious situation: Strict and urgent measures are needed to rectify a serious situation in Ghana's Cocoa industry Mr I. Mclnroy of Paterson Simons and Ewart said in London after a visit to West Africa
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Triumvirate next week: Ghana's new constitution was promulgated on on Aug. 22, a day after the Constituent Assembly had agreed to add to it a new clause making three NLC mem bers joint members of a Presidential Com mission for three years The Commission is to take office on Sept. 3
West Africa Magazine No. 3053 5th February, 1976
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1976-02-05) West Africa magazine
■ Nigeria's hundred thousand: When Nigeria’s army is cut-down to around 100.000. as the new govern ment has decided it must be. it will still be the biggest by far in black Africa, and bigger than any of the North African armies except that of Egypt, which is in the front line in the Middle East.
■ Corruption: a basis for security? Last year the Ghana Commission on Bribery and Corruption, which had been established in 1970, finally presented its report.The Commission, headed by Mr. Justice Anin, found that “corruption is endemic throughout the whole society” and suggested both causes for this state of affairs and possible palliatives for it.
■ An international language for Africa?: Recently a correspondent argued that since the new ECOWAS covered one of the most complex areas, linguistically, in the world, it made the search for an African lingua franca more urgent
■ Books and publications: The city and the state: Urban policy and political conflict in Africa by Michael Cohen
■ Economic and business news: Now for the real work: It was not really surprising that the North-South Conference overran its scheduled time of three days, the idea that each of the 27 nations participating would restrict its opening statement to ten minutes was optimism about as justified as expecting the OPEC members
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Another plot" announces Acheampong: Col. Achcampong has announced '“'that another plot to overthrow the government has been un covered and the plotters arrested.
West Africa Magazine No. 2728 Saturday September 13 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1969-11-13) West Africa magazine
■ Wages and Cocoa: Nobody disputes Mr. Gbedemah’s claim that Dr. Busia's was a surpris ing victory, not because he won or even because he won overwhelmingly, but because of the total eclipse of the National Alliance of Liberals in the Akan-speakmg areas of Ashanti and Southern Ghana.
■ Nigeria at the summit: The OAU summit ended in the early hours of Wednesday morning, having passed among other resolutions, one on the Nigerian civil war, which “appeals to the two parties to preserve in the over riding interest of Africa
■ A month in the country-5: Caesar's Laurel Crown Professor Dennis Austin, continuing his series of articles on Ghana politics, examines further the detailed results of the general election
■ Portrait: The story of 'Prof': Half in admiration, half in exaspera tion. his lieutenants call him “ Prof”. But those who suppose that a man of Dr. Busia’s academic bent can have no talent for leadership should reflect that nobody in Ghana today is ready to name either a powerful rival
■ Commercial news: United tin turns loss into profit: Because of the Nigerian war a "well known international mining group withdrew from negotiations for the purchase of tin mining lease near Jos
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Busia announces 17-man Cabinet
■ Nigeria: Von rosen returns: Count von Rosen has returned to Biafra with five new Swedish planes and five Swedish pilots, according to New York Times reporter Paul Maubec on Owerri
West Africa Magazine No. 3055 19th February, 1976
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Limited,, 1976-02-19) West Africa magazine
■ Did OAU Survive Angola?: Why did the 22 countries who arrived at the OAU summit meeting in Addis Ababa without having recognised the MPLA in Angola go away again without changing their minds?
■ What Happened at Addis?: The emergency OAU summit on Angola, finally held in Addis Ababa from January 10-13, ended without a decision.
■ A rich harvest aheads?: Africa needs more food but cannot afford to import it — therefore Africa must grow more food. Weather conditions per mitting — intensive cultivation using chemical fertilisers is the most expedient short term (and long term) approach to growing sufficient food and to mitigate the possibility of future shortages.
■ Books and publications: The glory of Ghana: West African Weaving, by Venice Lamb
■ Tolberts'legacy Tolbert: After finishing the four year term as President for which the late President Tubman was originally elected, Dr. William Tolbert is beginning the eight-year term for which he was himself elected last year. A correspondent attempts to answer the question: what economic legacy does the first term hand over to the second?
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Planning return to civil rule: The SMC is preparing a pro gramme for a return to civilian rule. Col. Achcampong told a news conference called to mark the beginning of the events celebrating the fourth anniversary of the January 13 Revolution. However, he said, it was unwise to set any firm deadline now; as soon as the programme was ready it would be announced