The Great River Niger

The River Niger is the grandest and largest river in the whole of Western Africa. It starts from the south eastern highlands of Guinea and then runs through Mali, Niger, Benin and then finally ends in Nigeria. The River Niger is the third largest river in all of Africa, coming after the Nile River and The Congo River respectively.
In Nigeria, The River Niger is the main source of energy in the Country. It provides

hydroelectric power for Nigeria which is also conveyed to other neighboring Countries. When the river enters Nigeria, it gets joined with another Nigerian river called River Benue. There joining then brings about the creation a Confluence in the middle belt of Nigeria in a state called Kogi.
The two rivers, with the addition of the Confluence serve as a tourist attraction for the nation. Down along the river path, another water way is found which is called a Tributary; which is a place where water from a river enters the sea through many mouths.
The River Nigeria is of great importance to the country both as a renewable source of energy and as a major tourist attraction, and also a source of water for basic necessities such as gathering fish for food, fishing, e.t.c.
It is ine of the countries greatest assets in every way; as a tourist attraction, source of energy, means of food and other necessities.
The origin of the river's name remains unclear. What is clear is that "Niger" was an appellation applied in the Mediterranean world from at least the Classical era, when knowledge of the area by Europeans was slightly better than fable. A careful study of Classical writings on the interior of the Sahara begins with Ptolemy, who mentions two rivers in the desert: the "Gir" and farther south, the "Ni-Gir".It is often assumed, without evidence, that Niger derives from the Latin word for "black", niger, but it would have been more likely for the Portuguese explorers who first wrote this name on their maps to have used the Portuguese word, negro, as they did elsewhere in the world. In any case the Niger is not a blackwater river, which was the motivation for all other rivers that were called black.Some have rationalized that 'black' may have referred to the color of the people living on the river, but this did not happen to any other river in Africa. Therefore it would seem that the similarity between the name Niger and the Latin word niger is either coincidence, or that knowledge of Latin influenced the spelling of an indigenous name like ngher.