Hai Community and Everyone,
Nigeria is a beautiful country in the west African region of the black people's continent in the world. Nigeria is the most populated black country in Africa and in the world at large, "The giant of Africa" as it's fundly called.!
Nigeria is a fantastic and a gorgeous country created by God and is carefully loaded with amazing accessories and mineral resources. Nigeria has an incredible quality geographical distributions and natural endowments of all kinds. There are so many oil wells and crude oil locations in the south south part of this country, we are the largest oil producing and exporting nation in Africa, we are one of the known OPEC nations in Africa and in the world since many years ago.
THE GEOGRAPHICAL RAINFALL DISTRIBUTIONS, AND THE 4 WEATHER CONDITIONS WE HAVE IN NIGERIA...
This is an extremely dry farmland in Borno state, Nigeria.
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Nigeria is beautified appreciatively with a mixture of the best rainforest and partially encroached into the sahel region of some African countries as neighbours in the Northern parts of the country.
We know that the sahel region talks about those extremely dried, desert, grasslands that is known for sandy, windy very hot temperatures that are not soothing for both plants, animals and humans.
This dangerous driest parcel of land is located in the Northwest and the Northeastern parts of Nigeria.
Borno and Yobe States are the worst case scenario.
Nigeria was made so interesting to be a blessing to the whole population of its natural citizens and for every other people on the face of the earth. Nigeria in essence is made up of 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), which is the capital city and the seat of government of Nigeria. Where the elected president seats to control the affairs of the nation, situated in the Northern part of the country too.
Out of all the 36 states of the Federation, the 10 Northern states that has a longer periods of dry seasons are;
Borno and Yobe States, and others. The state of Borno is referred to as the sahel region that are extremely dry in nature. Receiving a very little approximate rainfall within the whole year, of about between 230 to 500 milimeter of rain fall, this is assumed to be a maximum range of rain fall all through the year. In this part of Nigeria, so pathetic.
Borno State,
Yobe State,
Kastina State,
Kano State,
Jigawa State,
Sokoto State,
Zamfara State,
Kebi State,
Adamawa State,
Gombe State.
All of these Northern Nigerian states do suffer scarcity of rainfall through each year, but the worst hit of them all is Borno state. Rain fall is observed in a very few occasions, and at it's lowest minimum. RAINFALL here starts like from June - September. While in other parts of the country, rainfall normally starts from April to October with heavy downpour that records more and higher all through the year.
Borno state, due to extreme dry weather, hazel region with little or no rain fall at all, has rather a persistent harsh, dry dusty windy conditions, dusty wind flying into people's eyes. The wind here feels like a harmattan wind that's not comfortable to our bodies and cracks the skin causing cough, carttar and crack people's lips.
During this short period of rain fall, farmers in this region had created a local system to gather almost all the rain flood into somewhere and turned the flood water into a local irrigation to help them plant their crops and have good harvests.
This is the excellent job of an irrigated farmland in Borno state, Nigeria.
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You also know that this is a livestock and crops production center of the country. Lack of rain and the scarcity of water had made them to concentrate on planting those crops that doesn't need much water to be sustained, like sorghum, onions, tomatoes, and so on.
Farmers in this region rely mostly on irrigation for their agricultural works, they survive this harsh weather condition by the means of irrigation with the collaborative process by their government and individual efforts to provide water for their crops and their livestock. And this irrigation method has helped tremendously. That's how they have kept productions ongoing.
This is chaotic but the most unassumingly hard condition in Nigeria is the Unfortunate confusions, chaotic conditions and neferious activities that had stepped in to distablize the country, creating confusions, conflicts and a tenacious sufferings, hardships for the citizens, and the most hit are the middle class, the poor, the poorest and the down trodden citizens of the country.
Fights for leadership positions and all the insurgency approaches from known and the unknown humans that had decided to hinder and stop the peace of the country had wickedly persisted till date. The lack of rains in those areas has cure but the struggles of leadership positions and the insurgency approaches had refused to be solved.
Lest I forget that, I'm not talking about the hard Economic realities on ground right now, I rather want to talk to us about the natural endowments that are accessible in the country, Nigeria. We had inherited this phenomenal beautiful conditions from nature, since the inception and the creation of the world
Ooh, lest I deviate from my topic for the day, I'm meant to talk about the outstanding four types of weathers in my country..., Nigeria
In Nigeria we have 4 kinds of weather conditions all through every year without cease. Namely
The Dry season ... Starts from November to March of next year
The rainy season... Starts from the month of April to October of the same year
August break season and this ...Is a rain fall stoppage at the middle of the month of August briefly, rendering driness with dusty hazel wind blowing, that often feels like a harmattan season but it's an August break season within the same month after a while, the rainfalls will resume duty
Harmattan season that rounds up every year. The harmattan season starts from December to February/ March the following year
Coupled with the early morning dew to soften the ground and give life to plants, crops and grasses. This harmattan season is very dry, with heavy dusty wind that blows around without apologies, scattering sandy dry dusty winds into people's eyes.
If you do not take care. Causesing cough, carttar, dry skin and dry lips, we use a lot of lip balms on our lips at this time, we can change our body creams to Vaseline so as to remain shinning and we do not allow dry skins.
We will begin to wear winter jackets as if in a winter season abroad, but there are no snow falls at all. So it's quite different from the winter weather people experience abroad, we don't have winter season in my country, Nigeria.
On the other hands, we have an extreme rainfalls zones in the South Eastern, and South south parts of the country, Nigeria.
The States that are found here are;
Abia State,
Imo State,
Cross River state,
Akwa ibom State,
Rivers State,
Bayelsa State,
Delta State,
Bonny Island not a state, but an Island in Bayelsa state.
A rainy day in cross River state, Nigeria.
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These states in the south Eastern and South southern regions of Nigeria are characterised by heavy downpour annually. Record has it that the approximate rainfall within the entire year ranges from 1,97mm to 2000mm of rainfall yearly, placing them in the danger of heavy flooding, erosions and all the disersters associated with too much rainfall and the natural phenomenon.
Their houses, roads, streets and roads are over flooded with rain waters during this time of the year. The government in these areas are on the issues at all times, devising the means to overcome floodings.
The South south and the South Eastern regions are the oil baskets of the nation Nigeria. Oil wells and crude oil are heavily located in these regions. This is called, "The wealthy basket of the nation".
. Majority of the land in Bayelsa and Bonny Island are covered with heavy blue occasions, rivers that the people use speed boat as their daily taxis. Wherever they're going, they must be accompanied with speeding within and across rivers of deep water... A natural endowments by God.... Beautiful, so much seafood are found here.
An over flowing river, in cross River state.
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Cross River State has the highest senerio about heavy rain fall annually, coupled with the fact that they're just divided in a stone throw from Cameron in boundaries, Cameron is also heavily endowed with so much deep natural rivers and seas that both the Nigerian citizens and the Camerounians fish together in their joint rivers and the people over there, inter marry themselves. They live like together, almost without knowing the boundaries that demacarted this two heavily endowed African countries.
Finally,
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