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** Africa: Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
** By road to Maiduguri, in Nigeria, and then by rail to Port Harcourt
** Governors-General of Nigeria
** Presidents of Nigeria
** Shell Nigeria
** In southern Nigeria, a leaking petroleum pipeline explodes, killing about 250 villagers who were scavenging gasoline.
** Goodluck Jonathan, President of Nigeria
** Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
** Nnamdi Azikiwe, President of Nigeria ( b. 1904 )
** President Sani Abacha of Nigeria ( b. 1943 )
** Nigeria becomes a republic ; The 1st Republican Constitution is established
** A conference on Rhodesia begins in Lagos, Nigeria.
** The military government of Nigeria announces that ex-prime minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup.
** A military coup occurs in Nigeria ; General Yakubu Gowon takes over.
** Nigeria Airways Flight 2120, a Douglas DC-8 operated by Canadian airline Nolisair, catches fire and crashes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 261 people on board.
** A Royal Jordanian Boeing 707 flight from Jeddah crashes in Kano, Nigeria ; 176 people are killed.
** Portugal wins the FIFA U-20 World Cup, defeating Nigeria on the final by 2 – 0 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
** Femi Pedro, Lagos State, Nigeria
** Shehu Shagari, President of Nigeria from 1979 to 1983
** Burkina Faso, Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Guinea, Kenya, Mauritania, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Zimbabwe
** A person from Nigeria or of Nigerian descent.
** Chief of the Defence Staff ( Nigeria )
** Nigeria
** Round of 16: Defeated Jacob Martins Obiorah of Nigeria ( 16-11 )
** and Yoruba
** Yoruba states
** Samuel Ladoke Akintola, Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba ( b. 1910 )
** A Dictionary of Yoruba Personal Names by Adeboye Babalola & Olugboyega Alaba
Nigeria and Yoruba
Highlights of the African collection include the Benin Bronzes, a magnificent brass head of a Yoruba ruler from Ife, Nigeria ; Asante goldwork from Ghana and the Torday collection of Central African sculpture, textiles and weaponry.
The language is the most commonly spoken language in Nigeria, but unlike Yoruba and Igbo, it is not so widely spoken outside Nigeria.
The result split ethnic groups between different countries, such as the Yoruba who are divided between Nigeria and Benin.
Originating from Nigeria ( specifically the Yoruba speaking tribes ) this nanchon includes many of the Ogoun spirits.
The Akintola faction argued that the Yoruba peoples were losing their pre-eminent position in business in Nigeria to people of the Igbo tribe because the Igbo-dominated NCNC was part of the governing coalition and the AG was not.
The Yoruba people of western Nigeria practice an indigenous religion with a religious hierarchy of priests and priestesses that dates to AD 800-1000.
Vodun is practised by the Ewe people, Kabye people, Mina people and Fon people of southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin and ( under a different name ) the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria.
According to census data, about 14 million people practise traditional religion in Nigeria, most of whom are Yoruba practising Vodun, but no specific breakdown is available.
* Egba refugees fleeing the Yoruba civil wars found the city of Abeokuta in south-west Nigeria.
Following independence, Nigeria was divided primarily along ethnic lines with Hausa and Fulani in the north, Yoruba in the south-west, Ijaws in the south-south and Igbo in the south-east.
The Yoruba of West Nigeria utilized soapstone for several statues most notably at Esie where archaeologists have uncovered hundreds of male and female statues, about half of life size.
# The Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria
A modern example of this phenomenon, meanwhile, is that of the priestly monarchs of the Yoruba holy city of Ile-Ife in Nigeria, where ritual ceremonies have been performed for centuries by the reigning Onis of the realm for the sustenance of the entire planet and its people.
African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.
* the Yoruba in the southeast ( migrated from what is now Nigeria in the 12th century );
In the Yoruba pantheon, honored in Nigeria, Cuba, Brazil, and elsewhere in the Yoruba diaspora, Ellegua is mostly associated with Papa Legba since both share the role of being the god of the crossroads.
* Mid to late 19th century Shango figure from the Yoruba People of Nigeria
Olokun is worshipped in Benin, Togo and among the Edo and Yoruba in Nigeria.
Exu de Quimbanda has a few similarities in how he is worshipped, such as in the colours he likes, but he is an entirely different entity, originating among the people of Angola, not the Yoruba of Nigeria.
* Saki or Shaki — word for tripe in the Yoruba language of Nigeria.
More than 250 ethnic groups are native to Nigeria, and many more have immigrated there in recent years ; the largest ethnic groups are the Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba.
From its beginnings in the streets of Lagos, popular music in Nigeria has long been an integral part of the field of African pop, bringing in influences and instruments from many ethnic groups, most prominently including the Yoruba.
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