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
West Africa Magazine no. 2903, 29th January, 1973
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1973-01-29) West Africa magazine
■ Sport and politics: What significance should be attached to the second all-African games just finished in Lagos?
■ Inside Cabral's Guinea: To the grievous loss of Africa, his comrades, his wife, and children, and his countless friends up and down the world, Amilcar Cabral has been struck down
■ Ghana's local government
■ All-Africa games diary
■ An Independent Guinea-Bissau 2 political foundations:
■ Books and publications: Aid and politics- Aid and liberation: a socialist study of aid politics by Judith Hart
■ Dateline Africa: Guinea-Bissau Cabral murdered-Secretary general of the African independence party for Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was assassi nated in Conakry
West Africa Magazine 2706, Saturday April 12th, 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-12) West Africa magazine
■ Ghana’s Last Chance? Cynicism about public morality is still not so deep in Ghana that confirmation of one of the widespread allegations against men in high office can now be answered simply by the resignation of the guilty man
■ Portrait: New man in castle: In a previous portrait of an African military man a correspondent made a distinction between the avuncular and the dashing types of officers
■ Roundabout: Student of English: During his visit to Britain last week, President Hamani Diori of Niger discussed the sending of British teachers of English to Niger
■ Sierra Leone as a market: Credit is given to the sincere and hard working government of Sierra Leone in a report on their visit to the country last February by Sir Arthur Smith, chairman of the Africa committee of the British National export council
■ Nigeria's power struggle: So overwhelming has become the place of mineral oil in the Nigerian economy that it is easily forgotten that almost alone among the countries of tropical Africa
■ Books and publications: Cities in crisis: Urban government for metropolitan Lagos by Babatunde A. Williams and Annmarie Hauck Walsh
■ Commercial news: Nigeria: Groundnut Pyramids to Go? Nigeria's groundnut stocks may all have been reduced to negligible size at the end of the current season says the tropical products quarterly
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Afrifa installed: Politics on May day: Lt. Gen. Joseph Ankrah's resignation as chairman of the National Liberation Council was announced on April 2
■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Federal forces near Umuahia: Biafran evacuation of Umuahia began about April 4 in face of the Federal attack, said a report in the French paper Le Figaro
West Africa Magazine 2707, Saturday April 19th, 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-19) West Africa magazine
■ Traditional Trade? There are no reliable statistics for smuggling because of its very nature, but it would be safe to say that considering West Africa from Mauritania to Congo-Kinshasa
■ Making Ghana Democratic: Government in Ghana should be prohibited by the constitution from establishing a one-party state the constituent assembly has unanimously decided
■ Roundabout: The two Professions: Lt. Col. Alexandre Banza. who has just been executed in Bangui, capital of die Central African Republic, on a charge of attempting to overthrow President Bokassa was a visitor to London in May, 1966.
■ Books and publications: African soldiers in politics: The military in African politics by W. F. Gutteridge
■ Competing with France in Africa: Exporters in Britain still fear that France and to a lesser extent her common market partners monopolises the markets of former French colonies
■ Commercial news: UAC in Nigeria's war: Turnover and profit of the United Africa group increased in all parts of tropical Africa except Nigeria and this more than made up for the loss of business in Nigeria
■ Dateline Africa: Sierra Leone: Siaka's Sweeping Reshuffle: A major cabinet reshuffle has been carried out by Mr. Siaka Stevens. There are changes in the ministries of external affairs, interior, agriculture, education and health among others
West Africa Magazine no. 2708, 26th April, 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-04-26) West Africa magazine
■ Stevens' first year: When Sierra Leone became independent on April 27, eight years ago, Mr Siaka Stevens was in detention
■ After Umuahia what? After several days of rumours especially prevalent in Lagos, it was finally announced at a news conference on Wednesday by Chief Enahoro
■ Roundabout: The great French arms mystery: What is the position now about the French and arms for Biafra?
■ Textbooks for Ghana Schools: Ghana's primary, middle and secondary schools will continue to have textbooks supplied free, apart from relatively small payments by parents.
■ Books and publications: A lesson for Nigeria: Federation and fiscal adjustment by R. I. May
■ Will farmers desert the land? At last month's Ibadan university conference on national reconstruction and development in Nigeria many speakers referred to the lack of progress in agriculture as contrasted with industry and mineral production
■ Commercial news: Cocoa 1968 exports: Accra talks: Ghana exported 330,100 tons of Cocoa in 1968 of which 72,575 tons went to the USA says the tropical products quarterly
■ Dateline Africa: Ghana: Victor Owusu and U.V. Campbell: Mr Victor Owusu, the new Commissioner for external affairs resigned on April 15 and Mr. P. D. Anin Commissioner for lands and mineral resources
■ Dateline Africa: Nigeria: Failure at Monrovia: The meeting in Monrovia of the OAU Consultative Committee on Nigeria was opened on April 18 by President Tubman. who said that all six heads of state were aware ot the progress of the OAU in trying to avert and avoid the conflict.
West Africa Magazine no. 2712, 24th May, 1969
(Apapa, Lagos state: Times Press Ltd.,, 1969-05-24) West Africa magazine
■ Paying for the War: Oil revenues will this year allow the Federal Govern ment to" undertake record expenditure without significantly increasing taxes;
■ Roundabout Paris: The headless Chicken: France, in this bizarre interim period this epilogue to the de Gaulle drama is full of contradiction not least the contradiction arising from the constitutional
■ In Memoriam: Native Authority: The second of two articles on the administrative reform in the new Northern States of Nigeria which are leading to sweeping changes in the Native Authority
■ Books and publications: The psychology of empire: Africa in English fiction, 1874-1939 by G. D. Killam
■ Commercial news: Agricultural output drops: Agricultural production per caput in most West African countries fell in 1968 according to a review
■ Commercial news: Exchange sweetener: For the first time ever, the Nigerian sugar company made a net profit last year. £N̈12,650
■ Dateline Africa: Guinea: Thirteen sentenced to death: After transforming itself into a special revolutionary court from May 11 to 15 the National Revolutionary council of the ruling PDG