MyNaija
Nigeria's heritage, in your pocket

Discover the places that tell Nigeria's story

From the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove to the walls of ancient Kano, MyNaija is a guide to the country's World Heritage Sites, palaces, museums, sacred groves and natural wonders.

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  • 80heritage sites
  • 10categories
  • 424credited photos
  • 26states and the FCT
Palace building in the Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove
Osun-Osogbo
Thatched granaries at Sukur
Sukur
Remains of the ancient Kano city walls
Ancient Kano Walls
Nok terracotta head
Nok culture
Carved Ikom monolith
Ikom monoliths
Farin Ruwa Falls
Farin Ruwa Falls
What's inside

A field guide to Nigerian heritage

Every site has its history, the facts that matter, a photo gallery and directions. No account, no ads, and it keeps working when the signal drops.

Explore and search

Browse ten categories, from UNESCO sites and royal palaces to rock art and colonial history. Search by name, state or town, or sort by what's nearest.

Every site in depth

The history and significance of each place, with its state, status, age and coordinates, plus directions in your maps app and the heritage sites nearby.

A map of the country

Every site on an open map of Nigeria, grouped by region, with World Heritage Sites picked out in gold.

AR view

Hold up your phone and see heritage sites in the direction they lie from where you stand, with their distance. Tap one to learn more.

Stories you can trust

Descriptions come from Wikipedia, facts from Wikidata and OpenStreetMap, designations from UNESCO. Every page lists its sources.

Private by design

No account, no ads, no tracking. Your location stays on your phone, and content you've opened is there offline.

The app

Made for exploring

Explore screen with featured World Heritage Sites
Explore
Osun-Osogbo site page with facts and directions
Site pages
Map of Nigeria with clustered heritage sites
Map
Full-screen photo of an Ikom monolith with its credit
Credited photos
List of heritage categories
Categories
Article text about Osun-Osogbo
The full story
Sources and nearby sites
Sources and nearby sites
The collection

Every site in the app

This list loads live from the same content server the app uses.

Open knowledge

Where the content comes from

MyNaija is built on openly licensed sources. The app credits each one on the page where it's used, and links back to the original.

Wikipedia

Site descriptions, excerpted and linked to the exact article revision.

CC BY-SA 4.0

Wikimedia Commons

Photographs, each shown with its author, licence and source page.

CC0, public domain, CC BY, CC BY-SA

Wikidata

Coordinates, states, dates and official websites.

CC0

OpenStreetMap

Map data, and locations for a few sites, served through OpenFreeMap.

ODbL

UNESCO

World Heritage and Tentative List designations, linked to their listings.

Linked reference

Made in Nigeria by Xiden Games

MyNaija is developed by Samuel Adoga at Xiden Games. For details, contact samuel@xidengames.com.

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