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mercyware/nigerianstates
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Nigerian States is a package that helps retrieve details about states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria icnluding Local Governement, Languages, Date Created, Capital and more. Credit: Rinvex LLC from the Rinvex Country Package. https://github.com/rinvex/countries

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Nigerian States
===============

[](#nigerian-states)

**Nigerian States** is inspired by **Rinvex Country Package** . The Nigerian states laravel package helps to easily retrive information about the 36 states in the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

**Available information includes**

- State Name
- Local Governments within the States
- Languages
- Date Created
- Population
- Capital
- Political Zone
- Nick Name
- and more.

Usage
=====

[](#usage)

install via `composer require mercyware/nigerianstates`

```
//Get the list of States
$states = StatesLoader::states();

//Get a State Details
$state = StatesLoader::state('abia');

//Get name of a state
$state->getName();

//Get The Officail Name of a state
$state->getOfficialName();

//Get The short code of a state
$state->getShortCode();

//Get the state capital name
$state->getStateCapital();

//Get the state geo political zone
$state->getGeoPoliticalZone();

//Get the date state was created
$state->getDateCreated();

//Get the state population according to 2016 Census
$state->getPopulation();

//Get the official website of state
$state->getStateWebsite();

//Get thestate Demonym
$state->getDemonym();

//Get the state nick name
$state->getStateNickName();

//Get the list of local government in the state
$state->getLocalGovernmentAreas();

//Get the languages spoken in the state
$state->getLanguages();

//Get the official website of state
$state->getStateWebsite();

//Get the official website of state
$state->getStateWebsite();

```

Source of Information
=====================

[](#source-of-information)

- Wikipedia \[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States\_of\_Nigeria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Nigeria)\].

###  Health Score

20

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LowBetter than 14% of packages

Maintenance26

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity21

Limited adoption so far

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity18

Early-stage or recently created project

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 75% of commits — single point of failure

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**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

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Maintainers

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