northern nigeria(Arewa)is the former northern region which is now divided into 20 states including fct abuja.the states are adamawa,abuja,bauchi,benue,borno,kano,kaduna,katsina,kebbi,kwara,kogi,jigawa,sokoto,yobe,gombe,taraba,nasarawa,plateau,zamfara,niger.almost sixty percent of the population of nigeria lives in the northern region.below are some beautiful pictures of arewa
KANO
kano which is the largest city in northern nigeria has successifully overtook kaduna interms of infrastructural development.it is the second largest city in nigeria coming after lagos.kano metropolis is made up of seven local government areas,it is the most industrialized town in northern nigeria.

KADUNA
kaduna is the second largest and important city in the north after kano,its has a population of over 2m,it is the capital of former northern region and its also a military town housing the only military university and largest polythecnic in nigeria it has the peugeot assembly plant and its also a very important railway junction,many important roads connecting north and south also pass through kaduna

picture
1 kano
2 kano
3 kano
4 kaduna

Mightymanna:
northern nigeria(Arewa)is the former northern region which is now divided into 20 states including fct abuja.the states are adamawa,abuja,bauchi,benue,borno,kano,kaduna,katsina,kebbi,kwara,kogi,jigawa,sokoto,yobe,gombe,taraba,nasarawa,plateau,zamfara,niger.almost sixty percent of the population of nigeria lives in the northern region.below are some beautiful pictures of arewa
KANO
kano which is the largest city in northern nigeria has successifully overtook kaduna interms of infrastructural development.it is the second largest city in nigeria coming after lagos.kano metropolis is made up of seven local government areas,it is the most industrialized town in northern nigeria.

KADUNA
kaduna is the second largest and important city in the north after kano,its has a population of over 2m,it is the capital of former northern region and its also a military town housing the only military university and largest polythecnic in nigeria it has the peugeot assembly plant and its also a very important railway junction,many important roads connecting north and south also pass through kaduna

picture
1 kano
2 kano
3 kano
4 kaduna

u said town and u are mentioning state

first picture kano

kano

2

kaduna

kaduna

MAIDUGURI
Is the largest town in northeast nigeria with a population of over 1.5m.it is the biggest comercial town in the chad basin.maiduguri witness a decline in economic activities due to bokoharam crises but it also witness population influx

maiduguri

Northern Nigeria, lovely place with lovely people who let a religion conquer their own tradition and ruined their land. I particularly love the open spaces and ancient structures

SOKOTO
sokoto is a town located in the northwestern corner of nigeria,it is the capital of the ancient usmaniyya empire(sokoto caliphate)it has a population of over 0.6m.it is also the home of sokoto cement which is also the largest cement factory in the north.the sultan(leader of nigerian muslims)is also living in sokoto.

ILORIN
is the second most populous city in north central coming after jos,it has a population of over 0.8m

ilorin

BAUCHI
the capital of bauchi state is also a very important town in northeast.below are some pics including the emir palace

JOS
jos has a very nice weather due to its high altitude.it is most industrialied town in northcentral it houses the popular nasco group of companies it is also a commercial town with one of the biggest market in west africa(terminus market)jos has a population of 0.9m

Where Zaria, nice pix

i will post zaria soon.without zaria the list in incomplete

KATSINA
is located in extreme north of country with a population of 0.4m peoole it is a commercial town.it has a steel factory and other small scale industries.it is the hometown of late president umar musa yaradua

MINNA
the capital of niger state is located in the northcentral region west of the fct.minna is now expanding rapidly due to population influx into the city.it has a population of 0.4m people

ZARIA
no doubt zaria is among the major towns in nigeria, with a population of over 1.2m people zaria is the 5th largest city in the north coming after kano,kaduna,maiduguri and Abuja.zaria has the largest concentration of educational institute in north notable among them are the renown Ahmadu bello university,nigerian college of aviation,Nigerian college of Transport Technology,Federal college of Education,Zaria polytechnics to mention a few.the concentration of these institutions of higher learning made zaria famous regionally,nationally,and internationally.others are Nigeria leather institute Ahmadu bello university teaching hospital.zaria has 3 metropolitian local government which are:zaria,sabon gari and Giwa.Another name of zaria is Zazzau.

gwales:
Where Zaria, nice pix

are u in zaria please add more pics of zaria for us

others include mubi Gusau Gombe Yola Suleja BIda Makurdi Lokoja etc

proudly AREWA

Royal family@AREWA

faces of some AREWA brides

the only problem is that i dont have pics of zaria.please gwales add more pics.i know zaria is very nice

gwales:
u said town and u are mentioning state

are you Nigerian? Do you live in Nigeria? If you answered yes to the two questions then I suggest you read more about Nigeria.

[quote author=gwales post=33565509] u said town and u are mentioning state[/quote
they are not states.the fact is that most northern states got there name from the states capitals

more pics of kano

i dont know why the moderatos remove 'pictures' from the title another pic of kano and ilorin

dustydee:

are you Nigerian? Do you live in Nigeria? If you answered yes to the two questions then I suggest you read more about Nigeria.

that is what i think too

DUTSE