Abuja

Proper noun

Abuja

1. The capital city of Nigeria; lying in the Federal Capital Territory in the North Central geopolitical zone.
   • Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad, and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless and vaguely fascistic air common to capital cities from Washington, D.C., to Brasília.2007, Teju Cole, Every Day is for the Thief, Faber & Faber (2015), page 139
   • Gunshots rang out in the capital Abuja and also in the neighboring Niger state as police lobbed tear gas to disperse defiant protesters. In Niger, at least six people are now feared dead, local media reported.2024 August 1, Nimi Princewill and Stephanie Busari, “Violence erupts as Nigerians protest hunger across the nation”, in CNN