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* The Nigerian popular song " Bobo Waro Fero Satodeh " (" Everybody Loves Saturday Night ") became internationally famous in the 1950s and was sung translated into many languages.
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* In Season 3 of popular TV series The Middle ( TV series ), Brick Heck receives an email from a Nigerian prince, not knowing it was a 419 scam, and joyously tells his parents, the " good " news.
The earliest styles of Nigerian popular music were palm-wine music and highlife, which spread in the 1920s among Nigeria and nearby countries of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ghana.
Although popular styles such as highlife and jùjú were at the top of the Nigerian charts in the ' 60s, traditional music remained widespread.
In the 1990s, however, fuji and jùjú remained popular, as did waka music and Nigerian reggae.
The most popular and well-known performer, indeed the most famous Nigerian musician in history, is undoubtedly Fela Kuti.
The popular songstress Salawa Abeni had become nationally renowned after the release of Late General Murtala Ramat Mohammed in 1976, which was the first Nigerian recording by a woman to sell more than a million copies.
" King " Sunny Adé ( born Sunday Adeniyi, September 22, 1946 ) is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music.
This reflects Western scambaiters using names from popular culture ; in contrast Westerners would likely be unaware to identify with names that would be familiar with Nigerian or other West African popular culture.
Nigerian Dwarf goats are popular as hobby goats due to their easy maintenance and small stature.
* Jùjú music, a style of Nigerian popular music
Fuji is a popular Nigerian musical genre.
Jùjú is a style of Nigerian popular music, derived from traditional Yoruba percussion.
Afro-juju is a style of Nigerian popular music, a mixture of Jùjú music and Afrobeat.
Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola ( August 24, 1937 – July 7, 1998 ), often referred to as M. K. O. Abiola, was a popular Nigerian Yoruba businessman, publisher, politician and aristocrat of the Egba clan.
Salawa Abeni ( born May 5, 1961 ) is a popular Nigerian singer.
While western fare such as hamburgers is served, Nigerian delicacies such as jollof rice and moin moin are more popular.
* Psalm 119: 89 is a popular Nigerian praise song.
A particularly popular song from Politics was " La Ritournelle ", a string-led tune, which featured Nigerian drummer, Tony Allen of Fela Kuti fame.
At the 2003 legislative elections, 12 April 2003, the party won 8. 8 % of the popular vote and 34 out of 360 seats in the Nigerian House of Representatives and six out of 109 seats in the Nigerian Senate.
Nigerian beans, quite different from green peas, is widely popular.
Meat is also popular and Nigerian Suya, a barbecue like method of roasting meat, is a well known delicacy.
Macaulay became very popular and on June 24, 1923, he founded the Nigerian National Democratic Party ( NNDP ), the first Nigerian political party.
Nigerian and song
* The Residents included a song called " My Nigerian Friend " in their 2008 multimedia production The Bunny Boy: " He said that he was hiding from the government, And said that he was dying and had to find a friend, He offered me some money, if he could use my name, I told him I liked bunnies, then he went away.
This album saw Common exploring themes ( musically and lyrically ), which were uncommon for a Hip hop record, as he does on the song " Time Travelin ' ( A Tribute To Fela )"; a homage to Nigerian music legend, and political activist Fela Kuti.
( The latter song refers to Nigerian environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the circumstances surrounding his execution.
* Gini ( Lil Jojo song ), a 2009 single by Nigerian rapper Lil Jojo
Controversy was caused by a song by Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti.
* " Jingo ", alternate title for " Jin-go-lo-ba ", a song by Nigerian percussionist Babatunde Olatunji
In 1984, Nigerian singer Onyeka Onwenu covered the song for the album In the Morning Light.
" Waka Waka " was also a 60s song by the Nigerian musician, Fela Kuti, and it's on the third disc of Highlife-Jazz and Afro-Soul.
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Other local names include 宰牲节 Zǎishēng Jié (" Slaughter-livestock Festival ") in Chinese, Tfaska Tamoqqart in the Berber language of Djerba, Tabaski or Tobaski in West African languages, Babbar Sallah in Nigerian languages, and ciida gawraca in Somali.
Will readily admits he is not the father but he and Kate will stay together, and he will assist her in bringing up her child, although — the biological father being black (" Nigerian ") -- everybody will realize that it is not his child.
Modern Nigerian cinema ’ s most prolific auteur is Chico Ejiro (" Mr. Prolific "), who directed over 80 films in an 8-year period and brags that he can complete production on a movie in as little as three days.
Onochie (" Larry ") Achike ( born 31 January 1975 ) is an English athlete of Nigerian origin.
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" Nevertheless, Nigeria has earned a reputation as being at the epicenter of email scammers, and the number, " 419 ", refers to the article of the Nigerian Criminal Code ( part of Chapter 38: " Obtaining Property by false pretences ; Cheating ") dealing with fraud.
Born in Ibiono Ibom in present Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria on 18 November 1924, Philip Efiong ( also spelled " Effiong ") joined the Nigerian Armed Services on 28 July 1945.
Nigerian English is thus distinguished from the often overlapping < tt > 52-ABB-bf </ tt > Enpi ( or " NP ", from the abbreviation of so-called " Nigerian Pijin "): belonging to < tt > 52-ABB </ tt > Anglo-Creole net, and < tt > 52-ABB-b </ tt > Wes-kos ( West Coast Anglo-Creole ).
Other similarities, such as " pikin " ( Nigerian Pidgin for " child ") and " pikney " ( or " pikiny ", Jamaican Patois for " child ") and " chook " ( Nigerian Pidgin for " poke " or " stab ") which corresponds with the Jamaican Patois word " jook ", further demonstrate the linguistic relationship.
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Although these western empires had little political influence on the Nigerian savanna before 1500hu they had a strong cultural and economic impact that became more pronounced in the 16th century, especially because these states became associated with the spread of Islam and trade.
Its origins lie in the elements of the Royal West African Frontier Force that became Nigerian when independence was granted in 1960.
By the 80s, Nigerian reggae stars included The Mandators, Ras Kimono, Majek Fashek, whose 1988 cover of Bob Marley's " Redemption Song ", became an unprecedented success for reggae in Nigeria.
Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe ( November 16, 1904 – May 11, 1996 ), usually referred to as Nnamdi Azikiwe and popularly known as " Zik ", was one of the leading figures of modern Nigerian nationalism who became the first President of Nigeria after Nigeria secured its independence from the United Kingdom on 1 October 1960 ; holding the presidency throughout the Nigerian First Republic.
Azikiwe became active in the Nigerian Youth Movement ( NYM ), the first genuinely nationalist organization in Nigeria.
On November 16, 1960, he became the Governor General and on the same day became the first Nigerian named to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom.
While in Nigeria Johnson became a Christian and reconciled with the Doe family through the intervention of the controversial Nigerian ' prophet ' T. B.
On 4 October 1967 the Nigerian military bombarded Enugu with artillery just outside its boundaries before capturing it a week later, shortly after this Umuahia became the new capital of the republic.
With increased British support, the Nigerian federal forces launched their final offensive against the Biafrans once again on 23 December 1969 with a major thrust by the 3rd Marine Commando Division ( the division was commanded by Col. Obasanjo ( who later became president twice ) which succeeded in splitting the Biafran enclave into two by the end of the year.
It also became the first university established by a Nigerian Regional Government.
In 1961, the Balewa government created an official Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations ministerial position in favour of Jaja Wachuku who became, from 1961 to 1965, the First substantive Nigerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Commonwealth Relations, later called External Affairs.
While working at the Nigerian Railway Elias became an external student of London University, and later he passed the intermediate examinations for the B. A.
As the constitutional and legal adviser to the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons ( which later became the National Convention of Nigerian Citizens ), he participated in the 1958 Nigerian Constitutional Conference in London.
According to Nigerian scholar Kolawole Ogungbesan, Mine Boy became " the first African novel written in English to attract international attention.
The Sokoto area was treated as just another emirate within the Nigerian Protectorate and because it never was connected with the railway network it became economically and politically marginal.
In November 2008, Rangers became the first Nigerian clubside to be a public company and sell ownership stock.
Initially, alcohol was used to supplement the crude oil refining capacity which the fledgling state had under its control, but as the Soviet and UK backed Nigerian army seized the oil producing regions, and with the Nigerian embargo beginning to bite, alcohol became the dominant source of fuel for the economy.
In the new Southern Nigeria, the old Lagos Colony became the Western Province, and the former Southern Nigerian Protectorate was split into a Central Province with capital at Warri and an Eastern Province with capital at Calabar.
A consensus was reached by the ruling Northern People's Congress ( NPC ) and National Council of Nigerian Citizens ( NCNC ) coalition government, and Ironsi became General Officer Commanding of the Nigerian Army on February 9, 1965.
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